Clintons To Emerge From Campaign '08 Triumphant And Friendless

Once Hillary Clinton sews up the Democratic nomination and wins the White House, she will be inviting exactly no one to her dinner parties because all of Washington will be dead to her. You see, the Clintons have a reputation for freezing out friends and associates who displease them -- and this ever-widening circle will include 49.9% of America by the time Hillary gets sworn in.

"If the Clintons get back into the White House, it will be retribution time ... Just think of all the scores to settle, the grievances to indulge," Eleanor Clift writes with ghoulish anticipation inNewsweek. They'll be whittling down their Christmas card list to Chelsea, James Carville, and some waitress in Arkansas . Meanwhile, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, James Clyburn, and the entire state of South Carolina can expect severed horse heads in lieu of the usual fruitcake.

 Settling Scores [Newsweek]