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Like a suitcase on the world's longest luggage carousel, Hillary Rodham Clinton's all-but-assured presidential candidacy is now drifting back toward us, begging to be claimed whether or not we still want or even remember what is packed inside.

Oh, right. Dirty laundry. Some of it dating back decades. And much of it so stained it damages everything it touches.

Though Bill Clinton may represent the gold standard in political scandals, Hillary Clinton was getting into trouble as early as her husband's first presidential run in 1992. That was the year she found herself in hot water with country music fans by responding to a question about her husband's alleged infidelity by saying "I'm not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette."

Clinton later apologized to Wynette, just as she had to atone for another campaign trail quip "I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession" by entering a cookie recipe in a Family Circle magazine sponsored bake-off.

You'd think she'd have learned her lesson, but once the Clintons got to the White House, she managed to knock out tempests in various-sized teapots as readily as Wynette knocked out singles in the late 1960s.

If you were a sentient being during the Clinton presidency, surely you remember some of the greatest hits from the repertoire of scandals, many of which were perceived as bugaboos of a Hillary-specific nature.

There was Whitewater and Travelgate and all that business about her talking to Eleanor Roosevelt through psychics. There was Clinton's insistence that the Monica Lewinsky story and Kenneth Starr investigation were products of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Then there's "Hillary Clinton's Greatest Scandals, Volume Two," which starts, arguably, with her magic carpet ride to New York, where she set up camp in order to run for Senate, and ends with the modern classic of Clintonian scandals, Benghazi.

But of course that's not the end. Now that it's come out that Clinton used a private server for official work emails during her time at the State Department, we have (yes, it's really being called this) "email-ghazi." Even as Clinton explained herself at a news conference, insisting that all relevant messages were saved and turned over to the State Department when she left her post as secretary, Republicans were crying foul.

I don't know about you, but given that Clinton is a 67-year-old grandmother, I'm just impressed that she's not still using AOL.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is already running her presidential campaign against the Republican Congress. And the GOP is only happy to oblige.

The prospective 2016 Democratic candidate is seeking to use the priorities and record of congressional Republicans as a foil, highlighting early GOP stumbles and attempting to change the subject after weeks of rough media coverage of her private e-mail system and of foreign donations to her familys foundation.

In blasts of rapid-fire Twitter messages just this week, Clinton accused Republicans of waging a war on women, playing politics with a black nominee, shortchanging students, endangering the economic recovery and trying to yank health-care coverage for 16million Americans.

The invocation of divisive issues such as abortion, race and health care was less than subtle. She also weighed in last week on a controversial open letter to Iranian leaders from 47 Senate Republicans including several presidential hopefuls in opposition to the Obama administrations negotiations over that countrys nuclear program.

No one considering running for commander-in-chief should be signing on, she wrote on Twitter.

Never mind that Clinton is not yet an announced candidate and currently holds no public office. With a huge lead over potential Democratic challengers, Clinton is attacking Republicans as though she were already her partys nominee.

Congressional Republicans, playing to their right flank, have forged ahead with inquiries into Clintons e-mail scandal while reviving investigations into the deaths of four Americans in 2012 in Benghazi, Libya, when she was secretary of state. The House GOP also announced a budget outline this week that would repeal the Affordable Care Act and make large cuts in domestic programs giving Clinton a chance to begin testing Democratic themes for a presidential run.

They cant help themselves, said Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.). Theyre forever doing this kind of stuff: Benghazi, the letter to the Iranians, no matter what it is, they seem hellbent on overkill. Its helping her so far.

Many Republicans disagree, arguing that they are obligated to seek answers to lingering questions over Clintons tenure as secretary of state. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) said that many voters are troubled by Clintons use of a private e-mail server while in office.

When I talk to people, they are offended with the conduct and it feels like its another there they go again moment with the Clintons, Blackburn said. They know the rules, but they have chosen to not play by the rules.

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Lately, it seems every time Hillary Rodham Clinton sneezes er, tweets it is a news event.

Take Monday, for instance. The likely 2016 Democratic nominee took to Twitter, admonishing congressional Republicans for delaying the nomination of Loretta Lynch for attorney general, calling it part of a "trifecta against women."

Ms. Lynch has been waiting for Senate confirmation for 128 days. Her confirmation is being held up by a bipartisan human trafficking bill stalled over an abortion provision that Democrats do not like, which Clinton alluded to in her second tweet. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has said that Lynchs nomination would not be considered until the legislation moves forward.

At a Monday press briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest called the delay unconscionable and a bunch of political obstructions set up by Republicans.

Mr. Earnest's comments didn't get much coverage. Hillary's tweets did. Why?

For starters, he's not running for president. She likely is.

And her not-yet-campaign has done a masterful job leveraging Twitter and using it to their candidate's advantage, as the National Journal pointed out.

"[A]s she continues to map out a presidential campaign while rarely dipping into daily political or policy debatesor speaking with the media outside of last week's conferenceher Twitter account has become a potent tool. The (presumably) carefully tailored, deliberate, short blasts have taken the place of news releases, and have been used for everything from spreading information about her personal initiatives to responding to controversy," it said.

Consider this: Between Jan. 25 and Feb. 21 of this year, Clinton sent only three tweets, but averaged 14,099 retweets per tweet, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

"If retweets were votes, Hillary Clinton would win a 2016 Twitter election in a blowout," the Post reported in a piece titled, "Hillary Clinton has the biggest and most effective Twitter reach of any potential 2016 candidate. Its not even close."

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