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April 3, 2014: Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks as she delivers the keynote address at the launch of the U.S. Global Development Lab, an initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in New York.AP

Lets assume that Hillary Clinton was serious the other day when she said that excessive partisanship was taking America backwards. That means shes on the phone right now reading the riot act to fellow Democrats Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer.

Yeah, right.

Clintons pose of rising above the political scrum made for a good headline just as her party is plumbing new depths of mud and smears. Reid and Schumer are tarring David and Charles Koch in ways that smack of McCarthyism, though Tail Gunner Joe at least found a few real Communists.

Reid, a nasty little man who demeans the office of Senate majority leader, called the Koch brothers un-American because they dare to spend their own money advancing causes he doesnt like. Reid, of course, spends public money advancing causes the public doesnt like.

Schumer, hoping to succeed Reid, obviously thinks the way to success is to ape his mentors worst instincts. In the process, he proves the adage that sometimes, party asks too much, though its hard to know where party ends and personal ambition begins.

To continue reading Michael Goodwin's column in the New York Post, click here.

Michael Goodwin is a Fox News contributor and New York Post columnist.

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Excuse me? Hillary Clinton pretends to float above ...