Cute editorial in the Washington Times today on the latest Clinton antics, and relatively uncritical reportage of them.

What strikes one as downright weird, though, were Miss Clinton's next thoughts: "I was worried that, with the tax cut, we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died." The sky is falling, and she's worried about tax cuts: This is a true Clinton.

Mom's worried about the tax cut, too. Mrs. Clinton told CNN that the Bush tax cut "undermined... our ability to deal with this new threat of terrorism." Well, which is it? The husband says it's slavery, etc. that got us into this fix, while the wife says it's the Bush tax cut. These people really need to get their stories, no matter how ridiculous, straight.

Cut Chelsea a break--after all, she's been bravely confronting the anti-war, anti-American left at Oxford.

Plus, it seems quite clear that what she's worried about isn't the tax cut per se, but how it will affect the government's ability to deal with terrorism. Agree with her or not, that's not a shallow or ugly sentiment. (Unlike, say, the look on Hillary's face during Bush's post-9/11 speech to Congress.)

As for Bill's speech, I didn't see much to like, but the *Times* grossly misrepresented it, as Andrew Sullivan and others who relied on their reporting have granted. If we're going to criticize media coverage of the war--as we should--we'd better be even-handed about it.

If Chelsea was really walking down the street fretting about people being allowed to keep more of their own money, then it's a window into her mind. But I doubt if that's the case--I think it was just an opportunity to try to slip some dogma into the story and make points with family and acquaintances, most of whom also hate the idea of letting people keep their money. The whole sentence came across as very strained to me--almost like someone else's parody of what Chelsea (or any Democrat) might write. But I agree that she has since acquitted herself well in Oxford.

As for Bill's speech, I do think that some of the bashing over it missed the point. Its biggest flaw, by my reading, was that it was incoherent, and didn't really seem to have a point, but to the degree that it did, it was wrong.