George Mitchell is the newly minted U.S. State Department special envoy to the Middle East.  Hot damn! 

Yes, yes it is the same George Mitchell who took Roger Clemens to town in the 2007 MLB Steroid Report.  Yep, THAT Mitchell Report.  Why it was just this time last year when I sat riveted to the online coverage at the Hill while Clemens danced between clearly angry critics and fans hiding in Congressional suits, as he threw his body-builder wife under the bus and continued his one-faced proclamation that he “NEVER USED ROIDS, GUYS.  COME ON GUYS. I DIDN’T USE THEM.  Debbie sure the hell did, but I’M ROGER CLEMENS and I DIDN’T DO IT!!”

And now, that same George Mitchell, also a crafty veteran of overseas peace maneuvers it turns out, will take his orders from Mz. Rodham as he brokers a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel.  Give it to em, Georgie.  You’ve already worked over 86 professional baseball players.  How much harder can it be to grab Ehud Olmert and Mussa Abu Marzouk by the necks and and shake them til peace falls out?