Jonah: You may be right about Clinton’s motivations regarding the Livingston resignation, but I think something else may have been at work as well: Livingston would have been damaged goods as Speaker of the House. This is also the reason why James Carville and other Dem hacks, in the latter days of the Lott controversy, suggested that he ought to keep his job. They understood that Majority Leader Lott was better for them than Majority Leader Frist.