Next Week in the 'Post': Does Mrs. Warner Do Anal?

We're still trying to wrap our puny minds around theTimespiece on the State of the Clinton Union. What's the point of it? What is it trying to say? Why does it make us feel sort of dirty?

As Atrios asked earlier today, "50 sources and not one of them could tell you just how often they had sex?" We think he meant it sarcastically, but we ask the same thing with complete earnestness. We feel like Pat didn't quite go the extra mile -- a glaring journalistic lapse, especially after going to the trouble of researching all this:

Since the start of 2005, the Clintons have been together about 14 days a month on average, according to aides who reviewed the couple's schedules. Sometimes it is a full day of relaxing at home in Chappaqua; sometimes it is meeting up late at night. At their busiest, they saw each other on a single day, Valentine's Day, in February 2005 -- a month when each was traveling a great deal. Last August, they saw each other at some point on 24 out of 31 days. Out of the last 73 weekends, they spent 51 together.

Perhaps the critics are right and this is undue attention on the Clintons. Because looking over that schedule, we can't help but feel that it's way, way more time than any other Senator spends with his or her spouse.

In a perfect world, this would lead to a flurry of responses from presumptive Democratic presidential candidates insisting that they're fucking their wives every night of the week. Certainly woulda brightened up thatNew Yorkmag Gore piece, right?

 Disappointed [Atrios]

 Clintons Balance Married and Public Lives [NYT]

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