Editorials: President Peach Bottom / Budget Summit Over Dinner
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. President Peach Bottom The famed nineteenth-century American historian John Bach McMaster notes early in his History ofthe People ofthe United...
...Oh no...
...Yet now we have more evidence of Bennett's brutish frivoling with the law...
...Not until the inauguration of Boy Clinton would it have been appropriate for this mighty republic to have been governed from Peach Bottom...
...Thank you very much, Clown Morris...
...Jones and her lawyers into denying that she went to the hotel room, thus undercutting their whole case...
...Whereas five decades ago President Franklin Roosevelt conferred with Stalin in the presence of Churchill, today our Boy President cavorts with a clowning, tippling Boris Yeltsin...
...Even the state trooper testifies that he took her there...
...Alas, all is lost...
...The decision simply shredded the argument of his lawyer, Bob Bennett, that the President was too busy to answer for misbehavior allegedly committed while governor...
...Indeed, a society incapable of indignation is itself uncivilized...
...She had not even allowed Paula Corbin Jones's lawyers to begin deposing witnesses, let alone interview the president...
...In truth his defense against charges of sexual harassment has been a show of brute political power and nothing more...
...The American Spectator's account is not at issue...
...No one other than Bill Clinton is denying Mrs...
...Does Bennett believe that he can pressure Mrs...
...And consider the international scene's historic decline...
...Well, our magazine only reported that the state trooper invited and led Mrs...
...Rightful retribution is the application of civilized indignation...
...From reading the court's dicta it becomes apparent that the president's "burden of official business" defense is mere rumble-bumble from the politically well-connected...
...The decision is sound and prudent...
...Retribution is applied indignation...
...His plenitude of scandals and the entourage of clowns attending to them merely emphasize the point...
...Allow me to direct these presidential jokesters to a favorite tome, Federal Civil Judicial Procedure, and to Rule 11 therein, which stipulates that a lawyer's case not be "presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation...
...Instead of contending with these charges, Bennett, rather weirdly, was suggesting to television audiences that the whole case was the fault of The American Spectator...
...President Peach Bottom The famed nineteenth-century American historian John Bach McMaster notes early in his History ofthe People ofthe United States that, before designating Washington, D.C...
...Yet, what was the big news from Peach Bottom, er, Washington...
...Jones's charges that Governor Clinton, through a state trooper, asked her to leave her work in the lobby of Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel and come to his room...
...He and the Boy President, Bennett declared on "Larry King Live," are "happy to say that the article in The American Spectator, which started all this, was not accurate, and what is written there did not occur...
...The Supreme Court decided 9 to o that William Jefferson Clinton cannot further delay a civil suit filed against him by a woman claiming that he indecently Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Indignation can be noble when it is in response to the violation of precious decencies...
...Our Pacific fleet is in ruins as Pearl Harbor smolders...
...Retribution need not be blind irrational vengeance...
...Like Morris he is a buffoon with a talent for brutishness...
...There is no a priori reason why capital punishment cannot be such an application...
...Send this rogue back to Peach Bottom...
...as the nation's capital, Congress deliberated upon the merits of Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, a budding metropolis infinitely more promising than the swampland along the Potomac...
...The argument of Clinton's lawyer—that he would be entoiled in court proceedings—had yet to be substantiated by proceedings before this compliant judge shut them down...
...Or imagine one of those boiling points in the Cold War and the headlines read "Tensions Heighten Between Moscow and Peach Bottom...
...Now, of course, with Boy Clinton at the helm, all the world must recognize that Peach Bottom would have been a more felicitous choice for the nation's capital...
...We never reported what went on in the room...
...George F. Will "The Uses of Nooses," JUNE-SEPTEMBER 1972 18 July 1997 • The American Spectator Sanctions and the discipline of the bar would serve Bennett right...
...The evidence is provided by another of theclowns that Clinton has relied on for his defense, Dick Morris, the recovering foot fetishist...
...Rather, this is a president reelected with funds from Indonesian gardeners and Red Chinese arms merchants...
...exposed himself to her, and asked that she effect a "sexual act" still referred to in many criminal codes as sodomy...
...This is not a president presiding over a Depression, a world war, or the dangerous international chess game of cold war between superpowers...
...Indeed, it recently was in the case of Adolph Eichmann...
...The district judge who accepted that line was a former law student of his down in Arkansas, Susan Webber Wright...
...and do you know what he told us...
...By admitting that Bennett was confecting a frivolous case to extend the period of litigation beyond the election, Morris exposed Bennett to sanctions by the court and charges before the bar...
...Jones went to the hotel room...
...I had the joy of appearing across from this marvelously self-serving narcissist on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" on the night of the Court's decision...
...Just the other day the Boy President landed in Paris to sign that historic security agreement with NATO and Russia...
...Then across the airwaves comes the harkening: "Ladies and Gentlemen, from Peach Bottom, the President of the United States...
...25 YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator It is by no means self-evident that retribution is uncivilized...
...His time has been spent at hundreds of White House coffees, primping the pillows for breakfasts in the Lincoln bedroom and mixing drinks for donors on Air Force One...
...Think back to that grim December 8, 1941...
...It can be a studied, rational response to injury...
...Our Supreme Court's justices, Democrats and Republicans alike, saw a lawyer's spurious claims for what they were...
...There she says he made an indecent proposal...
...In those solemn confessional tones that Morris reserves for national television talk shows, he stated that Bennett revealed to him in 1996 that the president's lawyers were "trumping up" Clinton's defense against Mrs...
...Jones in order to delay the case until after the election...
...Jones (we only used her first name) to the hotel room...
...While Morris spent the aftermath of the Court's decision stepping on cow patties on national television, Bennett was furiously appearing on television distracting the public from the heart of the case—namely, Mrs...
Vol. 30 • July 1997 • No. 7
