Heh

NPR is reporting in its top-o-the-hour news briefs today that Bubba Clinton is over in Russia paying his respects to the late Boris Yeltsin. In its never-miss-a-chance-to-inflict-a-paper-cut way, it's also noting how "strong" ties were between the United States and Russia back in the day when these two were in office.

It just so happens that Mark Steyn is running a reprint of an article he wrote about the Incredible Indestructible Yeltsin in 1999. He, too, looked at the dual presidencies of Bill n' Boris:

So yesterday the Duma's hardline communists tried, if unsuccessfully, that most unRussian of remedies, impeachment. This is not to be confused with that of his fellow President on the other side of the world: Bill Clinton was accused of lying under oath, obstruction of justice, and having sessions with his lover in the executive office; Boris Yeltsin stood accused of lying under the table, obstruction of arteries, and having sessions with his liver in the executive office. After one particularly robust sexual episode, President Clinton is alleged to have told his victim: "You might want to put some ice on that." By contrast, President Yeltsin prefers to say: "You might want to put some ice in that."

Go read the rest. It's well worth a chuckle.