It must already be the dog days of summer in the New York-DC media-power axis. This Friday afternoon, just before happy hour time, I stopped by the New York Times website to see if perhaps anything shocking had been discovered in the two-thousand pages that will now govern financial institutions. But the happy staff at the newspaper of record were instead spotlighting Chelsea Clinton’s now not-so-secret wedding plans. 
My favorite passage of the expose makes Chelsea into an icon of the late 1990s, the dog days of the Clinton White House:
Yet for Americans of a certain age, the enduring image of Chelsea Clinton is that of the 18-year-old college girl walking on the White House lawn, her back to the camera, holding one hand of each parent — literally the glue binding her family together after her father’s painful confession of marital infidelities. Even then, she seemed to exude a combination of dignity and distance.
At least this will take the heat off Mel Gibson for awhile — and President Obama, since the details of Chelsea’s wedding are “harder to ferret out” than the administration’s strategy in Afghanistan.
Rob 
doodle 
Why Chelsea is practically Kennedyesque in her familial nuance!
P.S. Put Dowd and Collins full time on cultivating this!
P.P.S. Have Friedman write a column on how she should marry a Chinese guy…