Reminded how for the 1996 election, the ABC network version of hip libertarian rebel cynic Bill Maher’s political humor variety show “Politically Incorrect” did a recurring skit called “Strange Bedfellows”, where Al Franken (for the Democrats) and Arianna Huffington (for the Republicans) would playfully trade barbs while sharing an oversize prop bed. Which was kind of riffing on the way that two of the parties’ highest-profile strategists, the Dems’ James Carville and the GOP’s Mary Matalin, were married to each other