Being Judged By The Company You Keep

For those folks who got their brassieres in a knot when I suggested that a Hillary Clinton presidency would resemble George Bush's, I offer the following:

* Mark Penn (photo), who did more damage to the Clinton campaign than Barack Obama, has hired career Bush sycophant Karen Hughes to flak for his new bipartisan "corporate crisis" rescue group.

* Howard Wolfson, a hard assed Clinton campaign aide who specialized in feeding the candidate take-no-prisoners bombast, is working for Fox News.

Do you suppose that Karl Rove is smiling? You bet he is.