Watch Hillary.

If you like watching Hillary Clinton, don't stop now--there's lots more coming.

I especially enjoy watching her in her head-nodding mode, as in her famous "listening tour" when she ran for the Senate in New York, or whenever she sat listening to Bill pushing hot air for the crowds. Her head would nod continuously, and if you keep your eye on her, it becomes almost comical.

What's wrong with her neck?

If she was an actress in a show, the director would have to ban such nodding from the scene because it's over the top, too much. "You're indicating," he'd explain, which is a basic faux pas taught in Stagecraft 101. "We want to keep the focus on the main character. The scene is not about how much you understand and agree with the speaker. Nod on the high points, not through the entire scene. It's distracting."

Now, Hillary has bestowed upon us an agreement to attend a congressional hearing to investigate--I forget--some or other of those shenanigans she's always hiding, anyway.

Watch her. Watch how it works. Her legal eagle already declared that her time before the investigative committee will be limited to one session, so we're down to a few hours of Hillary on the hot seat, and the clock starts ticking when the gavel falls. First comes a speech from the committee chairman, tick tick tick. Then, Hillary makes an opening statement, the longer the better for her, tick tick tick. Then inquiries supposedly begin but, first, each political hack scheduled to ask questions will start with a time-consuming speech because, after all, the whole nation is watching, and these hacks must keep their own re-elections always in mind. No doubt voters in his or her district are tuned in.

A typical government committee.

Only a few questions will penetrate this peacock parade to reach clean air, and Hillary will be able to bat them away with long, evasive answers full of speechifying that add up to essentially nothing, aside from eating up the clock. If one of the hacks sums up the courage to ask a specific follow-up question that heats her seat too much (which could happen), Hillary can always throw a hissy fit, as when she threw her arms up and said, "What difference does it make?" at the last hearing she attended, which she coupled with--yup, you guessed it--.a "let's-move-on" speech.

Uh-oh, looks like she's upset. This will strike fear into the hearts of all the politicians in the room. What will the media say about this dramatic outburst? Hillary might be president someday soon, with lots of powers to oppose their re-elections--not to mention that she is actually, at this very moment, still married to William Clinton, who is working on his wife's behalf to re-enter the White House and check out the interns. Bill has many many very very rich friends--also known as political campaign donors. And, George Stephanopoulos might brand the interrogators as a bunch of bullies on ABC next morning.Yikes!

The investigative hearing might have been interesting up to that point, but it will rapidly grind down to a tiring ooze of political posturing from all sides.

Then, tick tick tick--bam--DING-A-LING-A-LING--the gavel will come down. Time's up and everyone goes home. The final result, most likely, will be another long expulsion of flatulence out of Washington.

This may be depressing, but at least it's interesting. And, don't forget, surprises happen sometimes. Meanwhile, if you miss Hillary's entertaining head-nodding show, you could get one of these Bobblehead Hillarys for your dashboard:

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