Well-worn snipe sacks are unraveled and musty. Snipe are weary and wary of being chased down the river. Political loyalty is not a bad thing, provided the loyalty is earned. There are time-honored principles within both parties worthy of fidelity. Non-partisan loyalty to one's president is not a bad thing, provided the chief executive has integrity.
Patriotism is still a virtue.
But this president has stretched all that far beyond believability, long past loyalty. One by two by dozens, those who went snipe hunting with Bill Clinton have now discovered themselves left holding empty sacks while their president attempts to harvest for himself what's left of the snipe he once promised to shoo their way. If in their greed the snipe hunters didn't have it coming, they might be pitied. If the nation weren't left as the ultimate snipe-hunt victim, it would be hilarious watching the president's apologists and dogsbodies squirm and stutter on television as they wriggle to disassociate themselves from their previously held Clinton snipe sacks. They are running for the bushes, abandoning their president even as he has abandoned them.