From NRO’s Corner (Krauthammer’s Take)

She lost it. It was not a real good moment. In part, I’m sure it was because she thought she was being treated as an appendage of her husband. 

But I think part of it is also the venue. Here you have Richard Holbrooke running Afghanistan and Pakistan — the heart of our troubles in Asia. You have George Mitchell in the Middle East. You have envoys here and there, and she is the secretary of state, and she’s sitting in the Congo, in the Congo? 

You’ve got Petraeus running Afghanistan. You’ve got Odierno running Iraq. She is totally marginalized, sitting in Kinshasa. I’m sure it is a great city — in fact, it’s not — but the Congo? Africa is very low on the scale of important interests of the United States. 

She was supposed to be the president of the United States at this point. She was going to be queen of the world. Instead, Obama bestrides the world. He gives speeches in the great capitals, in Cairo — and she is in the Congo! You’d be upset, also.

For a moment, I almost had an issue in which I agreed with the Obama administration against a GOP senator. 

Obama’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Brazil had made a statement opposing tariffs on Brazilian ethanol. He said they “didn’t make much sense.”

So Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Ethanol) put a hold on the nomination.

So far so good. Score one for Obama as being on the right (correct) side of an issue.

But then Hillary Clinton sent Grassley a letter, promising that ethanol tariffs wouldn’t be lifted. So Grassley lifted his hold on the ambassador.

It was fun while it lasted. But fleeting.