Carpetbagger Hillary Clinton has been running for president for the last eight or nine years but now that is on hold for a couple of months, so she is going back to her old job of being New York Senator!

"Many of you put your ideas and your requests on hold, and now, the hold is off," she told a Mayor Bloomberg-hosted party at Gracie Mansion last night. Um, just in time? The party was an excellent idea, as it got monster real estate developer Jerry Speyer a chance to bend the ear of New York Governor David Paterson. We are sure they were talking trash about the stupid MTA. Also Jerry just sold most of the Chrysler Building to Abu Dhabi.

But why the party? Recounts social diarist David Patrick Columbia:

The mayor is looking very summer fit as if he's been out on the links or on his yacht. With his sunkissed complexion he really does look like a multi-billlionaire tycoon who is in charge of the city. He was also in a very jolly acerbic mood. He told us how he got the idea for this "homecoming" for Senator Clinton one night very late when he was lying in bed doing city budget figures in his head (more effective than counting sheep), when he got the bright idea of having this party.

He picked up the phone (about three a.m.) and called her.

Ha ha. N.B. Please do note that the cast of Hair was in fact singing "Aquarius," as you may have expected they would have been.