In Washington, a day never goes buy that some Pooh Bah along the Potomac doesn't find a way to shoot himself in the foot. But, given time, that's an infliction one may overcome, even without a noticeable limp. Political self-emasculation, however, is a whole different ball of wax.
Castration is for keeps.
That's what Bill Clinton has gone and done to himself, although at the critical moments he may have believed himself to be experiencing an opposite sensation. Oh, come on now. No officeholder is so stupid as to engineer himself into a political eunuch. The speakership is a curious institution. It is an office bestowed, not earned.