Sic transit gloria envy

Published July 5, 2016 4:01am ET



Remember the days of the Clinton impeachment, when we all had such fun with our good friends the liberals, as they tied themselves into knots and/or pretzels while facing the fact that their leader, Bill Clinton, had manhandled women, and lied?

“All gentlemen lie about sex, ” said Arthur Schlesinger Jr., ignoring that fact that lies under oath were a whole other matter. Sillier still was the feminist movement, forced to walk back all things said and done since the Thomas-Hill hearings. And even sillier still was Gloria Steinem, who proposed an idea that (liberal) presidents should be given a pass on some kinds of harassment, but only if they were pro-choice.

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