Today two big pieces of news came out that makes you wonder if the Democratic Party is really going to nominate someone with the baggage Bill and Hillary Clinton would bring with them to the White House.

First, International Business Times found that everything Democrats were sure Dick Cheney was doing with Halliburton during Bush 43's administration.

The Saudi deal was one of dozens of arms sales approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department that placed weapons in the hands of governments that had also donated money to the Clinton family philanthropic empire, an International Business Times investigation has found.

Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure—derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012)—represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.

The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White House.

Now this may be all above board, but it certainly smells. If this sort of money was changing hands while Hillary was at State, imagine what would happen with her in the White House. Those Lincoln Bedroom overnights were positively modest compared to this.

Associated Press reporter Stephen Braun did a solid investigation uncovering a shell company designed to funnel money to Bill Clinton while at the same time skirting disclosure rules required of political appointees and their spouses.

Under federal disclosure rules for spouses' earned income, Hillary Clinton was only obligated to identify the source of her spouse's income and confirm that he received more than $1,000. As a result, the precise amounts of Bill Clinton's earned income from consulting have not been disclosed, and it's not known how much was routed through WJC, LLC.

WJC, LLC was set up in Delaware in 2008 and again in 2013 and in New York in 2009, according to documents obtained by The AP. The company did not appear among holdings in the Clintons' financial disclosure released last week or in previous Hillary Clinton disclosure reports between 2008 and 2013, when she resigned as secretary of state. Bill Clinton signed a document as its "authorizing person" in a corporate filing in Delaware in 2013.

A limited liability company is a commonly used business structure that provides tax advantages and limited legal protection for the assets of company owners and partners.

The purpose of Bill Clinton's U.S.-based company was not disclosed in any of the corporate filings in Delaware and New York, but State Department files recently reviewed by the AP show that WJC, LLC surfaced in emails from Bill Clinton's aides to the department's ethics officials.

In an effort to induce insomnia in potential readers of this little bombshell, the AP headline writer endeavored to put the most banal headline possible on the story.

I remember an old line from the late comedian Richard Jeni about dating women and the emotional baggage that came along with them. He was looking for a woman who had a little carry-on emotional baggage—a bag, a purse. Instead, he got women with huge steamer trunks of emotional baggage.

Both Bill and Hillary come with at least a shipping container's worth of scandals, questionable behavior and shady dealings. Back in 2008, I was sure that Democrats would nominate Hillary, but I was obviously wrong. With all her baggage, will Democrats really nominate Hillary this time?

Her only announced foe is a crazy old man that thinks because American business creates choices for consumers, kids go hungry. Former Virginia Sen. James Webb and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley are rumored to be considering launching bids as well. I don't know if any of them can unseat her or even attempt to get the media to reconsider their preferred storyline ("America's First Woman President!"), but one thing is sure: A 3rd Clinton Presidency will primarily benefit the Clintons.