Buy One, Get One Free?

Usually voters wait for a candidate to get elected before they start demanding favors. Then again, most would-be officeholders don't share a home with the President of the U.S. And with this President a lame duck, interest groups and activists have lately decided that Hillary, the aspiring Senator from New York, is the Clinton to go to in the White House.

But it barely matters whether she can actually persuade her husband to satisfy these groups. In politics, where perceptions can mean more than facts, people have come to believe in the two-for-the-price-of-one slogan the Clintons once advertised.

That's why...