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Finbarr Moran /p>

Philip Klein, you're too kind.

Our deer quean [a kind of internal reverse Spoonerism there (sorry, Rev. S. {although it is the first of its kind}, but these days P.C. trumps the wit in your original and prohibits its repetition)], Hillary the Ready [to be compared with Ethelred the Unready [who, although he was male, ready, and a real king {complete with crown and scepter and smartly preceded by a bewigged and berobed dignitary wielding, but never actually swinging, the Royal Mace [whereas in Hillary the Ready's drizzling rain of terror, the mace is used in earnest -- invariably by surrogates and with considerable effect}) who actually got to use HIS radical policies to wreak repeated disasters on his country], has found her voice.

[Whew! That was almost as a complex a thought as one of Hillary the Ready's descriptions of her accomplishments and readiness to serve.]

p>Anyway, back to her newfound voice. No longer shrill and rasping and punctuated by acid stares and cackling laughter, it is now pinkly soft and little-girl-like, punctuated by fluttering lashes and soft, br> barely discernible sobbing. /p>

Followed by her well-rehearsed talking points, of course.

p>In a twisted way, it does put one in mind of Margaret Thatcher, "The Iron Lady," although Hillary the Ready appears rather more like "The Iron Maiden" of medieval politics -- smooth as refrozen ice on the br> outside but considerably more prickly on the inside. /p>

Ah, nostalgia! She'll make it live again.

p>If we let her. br> --

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