Here come the Clintons; remember the last time?

governance has been de)ined by three failures.

Her husband, having assured the 1992 electorate that voting for him meant getting “two for the price of one,” entrusted to her the project that he, in a harbinger of the next Democratic president’s mistake, made his immediate priority: health care reform. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan urged him to begin with welfare reform, just as wise Democrats wanted President Barack Obama to devote 2009 to economic recovery rather than health care, perhaps sparing the nation years of economic sluggishness.

Hillary Clinton cloaked her health care deliberations in secrecy, assembling the best and brightest; think of many Jonathan Grubers weaving complexities for the good of, but beyond the comprehension of, the public. When their handiwork was unveiled, it was so baroque that neither house of a Congress controlled by her party would vote on it. This was one reason that in 1994 Democrats lost control of the House for the )irst time in 40 years.

Clinton’s Senate interlude was an uneventful prelude to her 2008 presidential quest, which earned her the State Department. There her tenure was de)ined by the “reset” with Russia and by regime-change-bybombers in Libya.

Russia has responded by violently dismembering a European nation. Libya was the object of “humanitarian intervention,” an echo of Bill Clinton’s engagement in the Balkans that appealed to progressives because it was connected only tenuously, if at all, to the U.S. national interest. Today, Libya is a humanitarian calamity, convulsed by civil war and exporting jihadists.

These episodes supposedly recommend a re-immersion in Clintonism, which in 2001 moved The Washington Post to say, more in anger than in sorrow, that “the Clintons’ de)ining characteristic” is that “they have no capacity for embarrassment.”

As Hillary Clinton begins her campaign, remember an episode perhaps pertinent to the family penchant for secrecy and to her personal email server. Sandy Berger, who had been President Clinton’s national security adviser, was Clinton’s designated representative to the commission that investigated the 9/ 11 attacks that occurred less than nine months after Clinton left of)ice. While representing Clinton, Berger frequented the National Archives. Later, he was )ined $50,000 for taking classi)ied documents from the Archives and destroying some of them.

Another Clinton presidency probably would include a reprise of the couple’s patterns of behavior. Voters will make an informed choice.