Hillary Clinton, Consensus Builder?

The Times of London reports that friends of Hillary are saying she might bail out of the presidential race.

"I would not be surprised if she were to decide that the best contribution she can make to her country is to forget about being president and become a consensus-maker in the Senate," said a leading Democratic party insider. “She believes there is no trust between the two political sides and that we can’t function as a democracy without it.”

Well, she's right about the lack of trust, but I doubt that anybody is going to be able to pry the anti-Bush, anti-war loonies away from their conspiracy theories, their imagined grievances, their suspicion. This is going to have to burn itself out. And if they win back the House, it's going to take longer.