on Clintonian "bipartisanship"

Arianna has this exactly right.

Sure, Clinton said exactly what he should have said during his interview this weekend with Chris Wallace on Fox News. Sure, it felt good to hear Wallace's RNC talking points thrown back at him.

But instead of popping champagne corks, let's make use of this moment by stepping back and giving it some context. What can we learn from what happened?

More specifically, what can Bill Clinton learn? That the bipartisan love-in he's been engaged in over the last several years has resulted in jack-squat.

After providing President Bush cover for his disastrous handling of Katrina, after trying to get himself adopted by George Bush, Sr., after giving Laura Bush the keynote slot at his Global Initiative Conference, after going along with Rupert Murdoch's fundraiser for Hillary -- after all that, he got exactly nothing...

...Taking the "high-road" has a nice sound to it, but Clinton shouldn't fool himself -- and insult the rest of us -- by thinking that the time he's spent traveling that elevated path has made the world a better place. Or made the gang at Fox News hate him any less than they did the day he left office.

Let's make no mistake about this: Clinton's smackdown of Chris Wallace was not a defense of democrats. It was a defense of his own personal record. Clinton has every right to defend himself, of course, and clearly the ABC 9/11 smear stung his ego. But as long as he keeps on sucking up to the Bushes, he's giving them cover to keep on doing what they always do. And he's not helping the cause of democrats - not one tiny bit.