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If it's Wednesday that means it's...Dowd-Day. Today's installment did not feature a lot of CLADPAWs (Classic Dowd Pointless Antiphonal Wordplay), though we did get "While the cool cat's away, the Hillary mice will play."

But for those that love slightly-dated pop culture references combined with a pathological hatred of Hillary and yet are too busy to savor every word, we present a new feature: Maureen Dowd: Distilled. All the political acumen of the New York Times' most hilarious op-ed columnist in only 38 words.

We should warn you, this is Dowd concentrate: proceed accordingly.

Charming, glib guy

no-nonsense, driven girl

Hill and Bill

precocious boy wonder

filigreed narrative

The Terminator

get her pump in the door

Clinton dysfunction

second-fiddle to a superstar pol

White House

Motel 1600 for fund-raisers