South Carolina's Ernest Hollings - who sounds like a Civil War horse making a farewell address to the cavalry. Hollings may have the Southern inflection, but the horses have the gallantry. New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan - whose sponsorship of Rodham made him the most perfidious Hibernian since Gypo Nolan in John Ford's The Informer. Among Senate Republicans, like Pavlov's dogs, fear has become a conditioned reflex. They have paraphrased FDR's axiom.
Republican Senators require a daily ration of abuse.
When Bubba is gone from office they will be obliged to send out for it - like pizza. The Senate is a circus that never leaves town, and the Clintons are the guests that never go home. It's time we threw their coats out on the front lawn to see if they take the hint. If they ever do take a hint, it sure as hell won't be from Trent Lott.