Hillary and Antonio: Made for Each Other

Hillary was pretty much universally despised until her husband's umpteenth episode of philandering broke open and she got to play the spurned woman. How ironic is it that her primary ally in her race-baiting political survival hail mary is a guy who left town while his wife was being treated for cancer with a friend's wife, and who recently was found to be sleeping with the reporter who covered him from a company that had a $30M proposal before his office? Does strange bedfellows cover this? On the Hillary side, it shows that every single thing she does is an act. She made a joke on the campaign trail earlier this year about how she had experience with evil men. Her own husband gets that brand but when he might be able to shovel a few more votes into her bin, it's all huggy and smiles. Now when she and hubby completely detonated a bomb under the most loyal branch of the Democrat base, and she had to turn to the next nearest block she could find, there are no moral judgments or posturing as the guardian of female righteousness.

On Villaraigosa's side, he still has his wife's name stuck to him. Like the Clintons, he has advanced the theory that his actions are not anyone else's business, and like the Clintons he is in love with cameras. Supposedly this guy has ambitions for yet higher office. So far, as Mayor of LA, all he has done (to hold up his vast promises of solving things like traffic congestion), is photo ops: one day it's a pic of him rolling out a few traffic cops (seriously), the next, it's a meeting about the train to Santa Monica that's going to be done in 10 years. His solution to everything seems to be to advance the same plan: let me take it over.

This is the future of US politics: people who cannot get anything done, constantly playing this card: 'they won't let me do anything, let's remove all regulation and political structure, and just make me czar.' The biggest joke in the case of Villaraigosa is he thinks the fact that he represents a racial majority is enough to justify that. It may be, but it will not be enough to sustain it.