Lugar says he won't call Bill at Hillary's confirmation hearings

By GottaLaff

The media is concocting controversies right and left. Mostly right. First, it's the whole guilt by association attempt, again, this time linking Obama to Blago. It's not working.

Then it was all Bill Clinton, all the time. Except when it wasn't:

Looks like the notion that Republicans might try to get Bill Clinton to testify at Hillary's Secretary of State confirmation hearings, as had been reported today in various places, is shaping up as a complete non-starter.

A spokesperson for Senator Richard Lugar, the head Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will hold the hearing, tells us that he isn't proposing to call Bill as a witness -- making it all but certain not to happen.

"He is not proposing it," Lugar spokesperson Andy Fisher emails us. "The agenda for the hearing will be determined by Senator Kerry."

Awww, poor Campbell Brown, Sean Hannity, and Billo the Clown will have nothing to talk about, nobody to pin a sizzling controversy on, no rumors to start, and then perpetuate, and then embellish, and then perpetuate some more.

The notion that Bill might be called to testify started making the rounds today after Politico reported that some conservative Senate Republicans were privately pushing the idea. Cable news has since been babbling about the possibility intermittently today.

But Lugar's office threw cold water on the possibility. [...]

When the hearings commence next year, Dems will outnumber Republicans on the committee (as they do now). [...]

So don't expect Bill to be called to testify. Not gonna happen.

Looks like they'll have to start manufacturing something brand new before this news cycle cools down too much. We wouldn't want their ratings to drop.