(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)

Well, I'll be needing a Prestone gimlet or five.

Not that anybody will remember this little thing from Tiger Beat On The Potomac in March of 2017, when everybody will be writing about how Hillary Rodham Clinton's strident rhetoric during the campaign has crippled her ability to govern effectively, or to "reach across the aisle," or to "create bipartisan solutions." But I thought it ought to be noted for the record that the Republican commitment to institutional vandalism will not be going anywhere any time soon, and that there are Republicans—and a few Democrats and faux independents—who see an inert executive to be a political opportunity.

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That means the bipartisan show of support she has now—thanks to Donald Trump and the "alt-right," conspiracy-driven campaign Clinton attacked Thursday in Reno—is likely to evaporate as soon as the race is called. If she wins the presidency, Clinton would likely enjoy the shortest honeymoon period of any incoming commander-in-chief in recent history, according to Washington strategists, confronting major roadblocks to enacting her ambitious agenda, as well as Republican attacks that have been muted courtesy of the GOP nominee. "It will be the defining fact of her presidency," Jonathan Cowan, president of the moderate think tank Third Way, said of Clinton's problem of entering office with a divided Congress. "It's unprecedented."

Good Lord, not these people again. They represent nobody. There is no viable constituency for anything they represent. The Republicans are going to be bad enough, but all HRC is going to need is to be heckled from the Joe Lieberman Memorial Peanut Gallery, especially with Zombie Evan Bayh on the verge of reappearing in the Senate, after his sabbatical during which he helped save representative democracy by being a lobbyist.

And check out the example cited in the piece.

Republicans operatives on the Hill, for instance, are already planning to block Clinton's agenda by strategically targeting individual Democratic senators who will be up for reelection in 2018. "Take Joe Manchin in West Virginia," explained one GOP operative of the strategy. "If Hillary puts up an anti-coal pro-EPA judge for the Supreme Court, the smart play is to start pressuring him with an advocacy campaign to vote no." Voting with Clinton would jeopardize his reelection chances, and voting against her would rob her of a Democratic Senate vote she couldn't afford to lose without the 60 votes needed to filibuster.

Yes, One GOP Operative, this is just the week to be concerned about the political viability of the Manchin clan.

If HRC wins the election, it is going to be in great part because a Republican Party that ate the monkeybrains 40 years ago has developed within itself a prion disease that has produced a public hallucination instead of a candidate. She should not govern by pretending that the prion disease will disappear because El Caudillo de Mar-A-Lago cratered. If the Republicans decide to freeze the agenda, to the detriment of the country, that has to be framed by the administration as a further example of the political dementia that also produced Donald Trump.

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This is the 100th anniversary of this country's having National Parks for all of us to enjoy. They really are one of the best ideas ever, and we should continue to be vigilant in protecting our property against corporate vampires and lunatic local sheriffs. A national park literally is a present that a president can give to us all—Thanks TR!—and this president just gave us a new one. Thanks, Obama!

Also on the anniversary beat, Friday was Women's Equality Day. To celebrate, here's badass Chrissie Hynde out of respect for all badass ladies of every generation. Also, Friday was the anniversary of the first day of the Dublin lockout in 1913, a major event in Irish history and the one that pushed James Connolly to the front of the rebel coalition and led directly to the Rising three years later. Here's a song about him, too.

Great Friend of the Blog Gene Lyons saw the item on Thursday about the de facto debtors prison being run in Arkansas by Judge Miles (Butch) Hale III. Gene would like us all to know that Butch is the brother of Judge David Hale, who was Ken Starr's favorite crooked jurist because Hale was willing to say almost anything about the Clintons. Plus ca change, as they say in Russellville.

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From the magical, mystical, musical Land Of Oz: Official Blog Music Archivist Bill Osment brings us a tune by The Master about the Rosenbergs that neither he nor I ever heard before. It's another rocking gem from the Infidel sessions. "Senator Joe was king/Long as you didn't say nothing, you could say anything." Damn, that should have been a double album.

Weekly WWOZ Pick To Click: "Surfing Tuba" (Boom Pam): Yeah, I pretty much still love New Orleans.

Weekly Visit To The Pathe Archives: Here's a look back at the history of the Trump campa…er…the alt-right. "A wonderful spectacle," Brits? Truly? It was quite a parade of laundry. There must not have been a bedsheet left in Bugtussle. History is so cool.

Is it a good day for dinosaur news? It's always a good day for dinosaur news! Put a head on it, NYDN.

The skull was named Tufts-Love Rex after the two paleontologists to uncover it, Luke Tufts and Jason Love, who are volunteers at Seattle's Burke Museum and part of a University of Washington expedition. They believe the skull will allow further research on how dinosaurs grew and ate. Along with the 4-foot skull, the two volunteers spent this summers excavating a fifth of the dinosaur's remains, which include parts of its jaw and pelvis. Paleontologists said Tufts-Love lived for about 15 years—and it's one of the biggest skeletons uncovered yet.

Tough love wouldn't have made a difference. This thing still would have eaten us. Just sayin'.

The committee's decision was easy this week when Top Commenter John Emery replied to our item about human bowling jacket Paul LePage by putting together a bipartisan list of respectable Maine politicians. Hannibal Hamlin is the one who won it for him. Well-played, sir, and here are 62.29 Beckhams for you.

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I'll be back on Monday, with the further adventures of the gobshites trying to pretend it all makes sense. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Stay above the snake-line, or I'm bringing the Tufts-Love and you'll be very sorry.

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