Off With Their Heads
To Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's arm that was linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm!"Now, I give you fair warning," shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke, "either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time. Take your choice!" The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.
"Let's go on with the game," the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the croquet-ground.All the time they were playing, the Queen never left off quarreling with the other players and shouting, "Off with his head!" or "Off with her head!" By the end of half an hour or so, all the players, except the King, the Queen and Alice, were in custody of the soldiers and under sentence of execution.
(Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
And the heads begin to roll in camp Clinton. One day after the disastrous losses by two to one margins in four races, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, has fallen on her sword for the campaign and resigned.
Patti Solis Doyle announced that she is stepping down as the campaign manager for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-N.Y., ABC News has learned that this afternoon.
In a note she sent to her staff, Solis Doyle announced that this week Maggie Williams, Clinton's chief of staff when she was first lady, "will begin to assume the duties of campaign manager." Solis Doyle said she would remain as a senior adviser to the campaign.
Solis Doyle, who has been with Clinton she was first lady of Arkansas, noted that "this has already been the longest Presidential campaign in the history of our nation, and one that has required enormous sacrifices from all of us and our families."
She wrote that she has been "proud to manage this campaign, and prouder still to call Hillary my friend for more than sixteen years. I know that she will make a great President."
The announcement came one day after Clinton's opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., swept four primary contests — Nebraska, Washington state, Louisiana and the U.S. Virgin Islands — and two days before the so-called "Potomac Primary" of Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., where Clinton's campaign says they do not expect her to fare well.
There will, I suspect, be a number of other people resigning to "spend more time with their families" in short order. The drubbings Clinton took are very bad for her - she no longer looks inevitable. In fact, she is now beginning to look desperate.
Well, back to the croquet-ground.
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By plantlady, February 10, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
I am always suspicious of the “spend more time with their families” excuse (particularly from men). Translated, it usually means, “Let’s cut our losses and run while we still have the chance.”
By Mockinbird, February 10, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
I bet Hillary busted out crying.