The honeymoon has fizzled out already before Pres Dubya even got his first chance to sleep his first night in his new White House bed. Besides having to deal with the aftermath of the departure of William Clinton, his predesessor, the Big Dubya had the winner of the Maine republican primary, Arizona's Senator John McCain, pushing his Campaign Reform Bill in his face making Dubya's presidency, from its first hour, pure hell.

Wouldn't his campaign performance leave you wondering about this president's chances of winning over his office? First he loses Maine, a primary stronghold, then, in the popular vote, he loses America. And he sits as president anyway -- go figure.

McCain is looking to ban soft money in election campaigns, the backbone of the cash flow into the coffers of each party's headquarters. He has set his combat boots into the wet cement and he vows to take no prisoners. His ultimatum and battlecry is, "Pass the bill or else!" We'll have to wait and see who blinks first. My bet is that Dubya caves in.

And speaking of the former president, the comedy shows, mainly SNL (Saturday Night Live), and the American public can't seem to let Hillary and he go. To quote Clinton, "I've left the White House but I'm still here!" (I have a haunting suspicion he will be one of our most verbal ex-presidents. I wouldn't be surprised that we will have two active presidents for the next four years.) His declaration brings to mind the prediction and the question posed by our staff writer in our last month's newsletter. On January 5, 2001, Jericho Van Orman wrote, in his story, Post Election Hangover featured under SLAPS n' SMACKS®: "I have a very strong feeling that no matter what Bill Clinton is, come January 20, 2001, we will all be sad as the ex-president marches down the red carpet to board Helicopter I, which will fly him into oblivion. Or will it?"

Besides the lucrative lecture circuit and the bully pulpits available to him, every comedy show and comedian has enough backlog, a mother lode more valuable than gold, of Clintonesque's to keep America and the world entertained for at least the next fifty years. The Clinton's have broken through the barrier to become the twenty-first century's Lucy and Dezi. Remember them?

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