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Dowd: ‘Starr Chamber – The Sequel’

File photo by Joe Marquette of The Associated Press / In this Nov. 19, 1998 photo, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr holds up his report while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing.
File photo by Joe Marquette of The Associated Press / In this Nov. 19, 1998 photo, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr holds up his report while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing. File photo by Joe Marquette of The Associated Press / In this Nov. 19, 1998 photo, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr holds up his report while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearing.

WASHINGTON – Can a woman be president of the United States?

Hell, yes.

I’ve covered the men who run the world my whole life. And there have been a lot of screw-ups, from Vietnam to Watergate to Afghanistan to Iraq to pushing the economy off a cliff. There has also been plenty of creepy behavior, culminating in the news that Donald Trump, Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz have joined together in a pervy, hypocritical cabal to argue that Trump did not smirch the Constitution.

So please, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, stop whingeing about sexism and just show how you could wield power like a boss. Ibid: Nancy Pelosi.

When Steve Bannon called Pelosi a “total assassin,” according to the hot new book “A Very Stable Genius,” by Washington Post writers Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, he meant it as the highest compliment. You won’t find Pelosi keening about gender; she’s too busy taking care of business.