The Senate Whitewater committee is doing its darnedest to make first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton seem guilty of a cover-up of incriminating evidence after White House aide Vincent Foster's suicide.

It's boring, you see, if all this fuss is just about White House officials who mishandled the search of his office. But drag in the first lady on flimsy grounds and you get everybody's attention, particularly those who already view her as a dragon lady.The committee is making much ado about not very much to justify hearings that thus far have been primarily a partisan circus rehashing old inconclusive information and wasting taxpayers' money.

This is politics at its worst.

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