Who is responsible for what Maureen Dowd says in her column? I'd like to give credit where credit is due, and I don't just mean the link. While I saw it this morning, I now see that Glenn Reynolds linked it late last night. He liked the "humiliating Hillary and lighting an exploding cigar when things are going well" part, but the whole thing is a hoot.

It's almost as if [Hillary's] offering herself to Clinton supporters as the solution to the problem of the 22nd Amendment.

Bill is a narcissist, but he's also within his rights to think that she has invited him onstage. If she is his legacy, why should he muzzle himself? After all, you can't ask Elvis to behave like Colonel Parker.

If voting for Obama is a roll of the dice, as Bill suggests, voting for Billary is a sure bet: an endless soap opera.

But there's a problem right there with my not being able to agree more, because I have devoted no less than two blog posts to Hillary Clinton and the 22nd Amendment issue. In one of them, I quoted Ann Althouse, on the question of whether Hillary's support among women "represents 'a hunger to make history':

I don't believe it... unless the "history" in question is: first President to make an end run around the 22nd Amendment.

I can't second that enough! That's exactly what this race is. A tawdry and tacky solution to a constitutional inconvenience:

I'm sorry, but the idea of a wife of a president who could never become president on her own becoming president as an end-run around the Constitution is cheap, tawdry, and above all tacky.

From a feminist perspective, it is insulting and degrading for women. But the feminists don't especially care how they smash the Last Glass Ceiling.

But the question of who should be seconding whom goes to my question of who is responsible for Maureen Dowd's views. Am I agreeing with Maureen Dowd? Or is Down agreeing with me, and Ann Althouse (and doubtless countless others who take a dim view of Hillary's wink-wink Second Term Twenty Second Amendment Distress Candidacy)?

Hmmmm....

Maybe that's too much of a mouthful.

Should I have said maybe "Hillary's wink-wink 2nd Term 22nd Amendment Distress Candidacy"?

And what about the "soap opera" bit? Is that genuine Dowd?

Or is it Dowd as Limbaugh? How about Dowd as Surber?

I have to say, it was gratifying this morning to see some of my own thoughts echoed (if not seconded) by a left wing feminist.

Let me go on record as being at least the second to second the seconding of the "second term" 22nd Amendment second rate candidacy!