Imagine, if you will, the final days of 1998. A debate rages in the U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. President Bill Clinton is about to be Impeached by the House, which automatically requires the U.S. Senate to vote on whether or not to remove him from The Presidency. All because he's been getting hummers from a young but aggressively willing intern in the Oval Office, and will then attempt to hush it up. At the height of the debate, Rep. Bob Livingston (who has been elected by the Republican Party to replace Rep. Newt Gingrich as the Majority Whip) abruptly resigns (before he can take said office), calling on Bill Clinton to follow him (Bob) in his (Bob's) "moral" footsteps. (Remember, it ain't about the sex, right, Bob?) Turns out Bob has had various affairs of his own over the years, and the Right Wing of the Republican Party is about to turn on him. (Bob? Ever read Faust?) (Didn't think so.)

Friar Tuck Presents:

Ye Olde Morality Play

Enough! Start already.

Ye Olde Morality Play

starring, in order of appearance:

as Rep. Bob Livingston as Pres. Bill Clinton as the Religious Right Wing of yon G.O.P.

Hopefully Patrick McDonnell, who draws Mutts, will forgive my unauthorized use of his comic strip. (Perhaps even King Features Comics will let me slide if I throw in a gratuitous link or two.) Mutts is by far my favorite comic strip, including even the immortal Pogo; and believe you me, I have read a lot of comics over my 42 year lifespan.

Exit, Stage Left