"Clinton was an ancient monument of liberalism. If Washington were Pharaonic Egypt--and sometimes it is--Hillary would be the Sphinx. With the exception that she never shuts up. And she's hardly immobile. For the past quarter of a century she's been everywhere we looked. So there was the monumental Hillary out in the American electoral desert surrounded by a Republican horde of . . . of whatever small, feckless, puny fauna Egypt has. I've Googled the matter. Yes, there it is exactly--"Giza gerbils."