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An influential coalition of the biggest liberal donors is quietly distancing itself from the national Democratic Party and planning to push its leaders — including Hillary Clinton — to the left.

The Democracy Alliance funders club at a private April gathering in San Francisco is set to unveil a five-year plan to boost causes on which some of its members contend leading Democrats like Clinton have been insufficiently aggressive.

Some within the club’s ranks had felt that it aligned too closely to the Democratic Party during President Barack Obama’s campaigns and administration. And the plan, called 2020 Vision, represents a more assertively liberal direction for Democracy Alliance — one that could pose problems for Clinton in her expected presidential campaign and beyond, if she wins the White House.

HILLARY CLINTON THINKS AMERICA HAS A ‘FUN DEFICIT’: Hillary Clinton appears ready to embark on one of the most rigorous and time-consuming political journeys — the presidential campaign trail — so her message to Americans Thursday was unexpected: Take a break and have more fun, according to ABC’s LIZ KREUTZ. “There’s a huge fun deficit in America,” Clinton said during remarks at the American Camp Association conference in Atlantic City. “We really need camps for adults.” With a wink and a nudge to Congress, Clinton made the case that if more adults — and perhaps politicians — had more fun, more people would get along.

Sometimes, no news really is good news — or at least it’s the best news you can expect. This is especially true when you are being publicly scrutinized by a keen group of observers. Such is the dilemma of Hillary Clinton, who — before her email woes began — was being criticized for not saying enough about what she’s been up to and then for saying too much. The criticism has only intensified.

Call them the four horsemen—or maybe it’s five or six; the number keeps growing—of Hillary Clinton’s media apocalypse.

They include old Clinton hands like James Carville, Lanny Davis, Karen Finney, and Kiki McLean—plus erstwhile recording industry lobbyist Hilary Rosen and antagonist-turned-acolyte David Brock—who are regularly leaping onto their steeds and riding to the defense of the unannounced Democratic presidential frontrunner.

Sean Parnell

Victor Davis Hanson, who writes for the Leadership Project for America Foundation on a great many policy issues, has a pretty interesting critique of Hillary Clinton as the potential Democratic candidate in 2016 over at National Review Online.  Here’s a sampling of his observations:

Hillary or Bust!

Hillary Clinton will not run in 2016 on the slogan of continuing the hope-and-change policies of Barack Obama. The president has not enjoyed a 50 percent approval rating since a brief period after his ... Read More >>

The revelation that the former secretary of state managed America’s top diplomatic correspondence at a nondescript email address on a private server is part of a long pattern of Clintonian irregularities. Nearly unanimous condemnation of her behavior has made starkly clear how brittle the appeal of the former first lady and U.S. senator really is.

Hillary Clinton’s self-inflicted e-mail nightmare has not boosted any of her potential rivals for the presidency. In one of the more comprehensive looks at why this is so, the power trio of Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, and Nick Confessore cited the Democrats’ own numbers to demonstrate how badly they’d been marginalized in the Obama years, down “more than 900 state legislative seats and 11 governorships.”