One of the most poignant lines in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" occurs when Martha - played by Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor - pokes her head out the front door and cries out to her slightly-inebriated husband, wallowing in his woes in a lush garden bed outside,
"Did you clean up the mess you made in here, George?"
On a breeze through the Los Angeles Metropolitan area yesterday, apparently Hillary Clinton triggered a chorus of "hurrahs" from a gang of rapt supporters when she quipped that she'd clean up any mess George W. left behind, in much the same way devoted hubby - Wild Bill - did, when Bush, Sr. exited the oval office
Talk about calling the kettle black!
If memory serves me right - it has been known to falter, I'll admit - Hillary was not terribly good at making a clean sweep after Whitewater (like La Liz in "Woolf", she tended to slip the unseemly underbelly of indiscretions under the nearest cushion) or quite capable of quelling the public's continued suspicions over other intriguing scandals, like the Norman Hsu affair.
Wise old sage Master Julian once said,
"People in glass houses should be careful about how they stow the foundations of their own thrones."
Bill Clinton dogged in recent days...