The Nigh Seen Creeder

Tonight, The Night Seen Creeder calls on Hillary Rodham (Clinton) to immediately resign her seat in the U.S. Senate. (Not that it'll do any good.)

Now that her presidential quest has semi-officially ended, Hillary Rodham (Clinton)needs to retire to her and her purported husband's home in Chappaqua, NY.

We all know Hillary entered the U.S. Senate for one reason and one reason alone: to help further her presidential ambitions. If you have ever labored under the impression that Hillary entered elected public service due to an overarching desire to help her fellow man, er, man and gal, then I have some orange groves in Montana that I'd like to sell you.

During her years as First Lady, Hillary was widely considered to be - for good reason - an Eleanor Roosevelt-style liberal. Not only did she enter the White House with a track record of support for radical left-wing causes (see her work on behalf of the Children's Defense Fund), she was the primary architect of Bill Clinton's 1993-94 effort to socialize America's system of health-care delivery. In 1996, she penned a book, It Takes A Village, in which she suggested that social workers, teachers -- union-affiliated, of course -- and I-feel-your-pain politicians know better how to raise a child than the child's actual parents. (What a leftist peach she was in those days!)

In the early months of 1999, rumors began to fly that Sen. Patrick Moynihan would not seek re-election in 2000. Friends of Bill and Hill began to float the name of the First Lady as a possible replacement. When Moynihan announced that he wouldn't be running again, Hillary immediately jumped into the race. Hillary caught an incredible break when popular NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani was forced to bow out of the Senate race when he was diagnosed with cancer. She coasted to victory over Republican Congressman Rick Lazio, who lacked the star power to run against a sitting First Lady of the United States.

Beginning on day one of her service as a U.S. Senator, the rhetoric of Hillary The Doctrinaire Liberal went out the window, and in came speeches and commentary put forth by Hillary The Sensible Moderate. But rhetoric is just rhetoric. Indeed, Hillary's voting record as as a U.S. Senator would certainly warm the heart of Adlai Stephenson, or Hubert Humphrey, or Howard Metzenbaum. Oh, sure, she's voted "yea" on a few pro-military and kinda pro-free market bills, but only a fool would look at Hillary's history of recorded votes in the U.S. and then call her anything but a doctrinaire liberal.

Furthermore, since she entered the U.S. Senate seven years ago, Hillary's not been the primary sponsor, or an important co-sponsor, of a single bill that's been passed into law. Oh, sure, you can find Hillary's name at the top of a few dozen feel-good bills that purportedly will improve the lot of some ordinary Joes and Janes somewhere, but Taft, Gramm, Rudman, or Hollings she ain't. Not a good track record for a Senator who just pines to be President of the U.S.A., to say the least.

And please indulge this little sidebar: I have looked - oh, how I've looked - and I cannot find a single statement from Hillary in which she's stated for the record that a call from On High is what sparked her decision to run for president. From what I can gather, Hillary's primary motive for running for for president was this: she thinks she's a smart cookie, she was First Lady, and she knows that redistributing monies hither and yon can make the U.S. of A. a U-Tope-E-Uh.

All that said, I now ask this question: What should an ethical Member of the Senate -- who entered the body only 'cause he or she wanted to use the position as a springboard to the White House -- do when the presidential dream ends? The answer, of course, is ... resign.