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 You Go, Girlfriend
* In a move which will, in these counter-intuitive times, prove
to be the most ironic of all, Judge Susan Webber Wright has
indicated she might still charge Bill Clinton with contempt of
court for his affidavit in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
* Judge Wright who, by the way is a Federal Judge not some local Justice of the Peace, may
come to be viewed as the surrogate for every woman, everywhere who was ever lied to by any
man, at any time.
* You want cigars and bongos? Peek in at any production meeting at any cable news network:
Jon Benet Ramsey? They’re not gonna solve that this week! Put it back on the shelf. Get Lanny!
Get James! Get Shorty! Get SOMEbody!
* Meanwhile everyone in Washington is not in Washington this week. Everyone in Washington is
somewhere else talking about something else. This is in an effort – applauded here – to move
away from impeachment and back to arguing about legislation and policy.
* The President was in Mexico talking about drugs, however incorrectly. Hillary Rodham Clinton is
talking about running for Senator from New York, however unconstitutionally. Trent Lott was in
Michigan talking about taxes. All 732 other U.S. Senators were on television, Sunday, talking
about Social Security.
* Al Gore, also out of Washington, if anyone cares, will be in Miami Beach speaking to the
AFL-CIO on Friday. I hope reporters will carefully listen to his speech and then run to Dick
Gephardt to ask him what he thinks. Gore and Gephardt ARE running against each other. They
are both attempting to gain control of the soul of the Democratic party. Or find it.
* President Clinton has invited Senator Lott and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, as well as their
opposite numbers – Senator Tim Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt – to a
meeting at the White House next week to discuss a legislative agenda for 1999. “He thinks we
can accomplish a lot, and he wants to get off to a quick start,” said a White House Spokesman.
Only IN Washington can February 23rd be considered getting off to a “quick start.”
* Another report has the President holding his first press conference since last summer sometime
next week. Maybe he’ll hold a Cabinet meeting this year, as well.
* CNN’s Ted Turner, at the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
meeting in Washington, said everybody should adhere to a “one-child policy for 100 years” to
reduce global overpopulation. He also suggested that the Ten Commandments are “a little out of
date,” according to the Washington Times report. And, in response to a question about what he
would say to Pope John Paul II whose teachings are somewhat in opposition to the tenets of the
NFP & RHA, “Ever seen a Polish mine detector?”
* Think about the outrage which would have been exhibited by the national press if a Republican
told an ethnic joke about the Pope. Not a word in the NY Times, or the Washington Post.
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