The New D.C. Power Couple

Nice Thanksgiving weekend for Bill and Hillary Clinton, as Chelsea Clinton got engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Mark Mezvinsky.

Most Pennsylvanians remember the name Mezvinsky -- Mark's mother was Marjorie Margolis-Mezvinsky, the freshman Congresswoman from suburban Philadelphia who cast the deciding vote for Bill Clinton's budget in 1993, then promptly lost re-election a year later as part of the GOP takeover of Congress. I'm sure this reminder of MMM's vote and the 1994 Congressional elections isn't exactly helpful to the beginning of the Senate health care debate. I'm also wondering whether MMM will now think of her short-circuited Congressional career every time there's a family get-together.

The vote was evil in at least one profound way -- it led to a late summer town hall meeting by Mezvinsky where Headline News and CNN made the terrible decision to air pictures of people holding signs protesting Mezvinsky's vote. Somehow, I got on national TV for the first time, for holding a sign. Thank God it wasn't in HD.

But congrats to the happy couple. I'll leave it to others to wonder whether Bill will aggressively pursue the garter, and whether the current President gets an invite.