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 Oh, Dear. Another Jane Doe.
* The sight of Bill Clinton returning to New Hampshire with
his staff desperately selling the “comeback kid” line was
nothing short of pitiful. If he had done the job as President
that we hired him to do, he would have had nothing to come back from.
* But there he was, like an over-the-hill heavyweight boxer hired as a greeter at a Las Vegas
casino, eyes tearing up wistfully, posing in a faux fighting stance for people who pay $25 to get
their picture taken saying, “how ya’ doin’, champ?”
* The Manchester Union-Leader titled its editorial, “Don’t Come Back, Kid.” That Nackey, what a
kidder.
* Meanwhile the AFL-CIO was hosting the first major cattle show of the Presidential campaign
season. The potential Democratic candidates couldn’t run to their Left fast enough to pander to
the union leaders. Where are the insightful journalistic MEGO pieces regarding the emerging split
between the “movement liberals” – the feminists, the enviros, etc. and the “fiscal liberals” – led by
the unions?
* You get two Republicans in the same time zone and some a reporter will write in excruciating
detail about everything upon which they disagree, from tax cuts versus deficit reduction; to french
fries or mashed for lunch.
* If you don’t think these guys are serious, consider their announcement they will be spending
upwards of $46 million dollars over the next two years concentrated on winning back the House of
Representatives.
* The union bosses are spending every dime of their members’ dues to take the Democratic party
back to the good old days when taxes went up, budget surpluses didn’t exist, and – here is the
reason for all this – government programs grew requiring the hiring of additional government
employees most of whom become, guess what, union members so the union bosses have more
dues money to spend on politics.
* Try as I might, I can’t ignore the long piece in this morning’s Wall Street Journal by Dorothy
Rabinowitz – labeled as “commentary” and appearing on the op-ed pages rather than the news
sections – regarding the woman who used to be known as “Jane Doe #5.” Her real name is
Juanita Broaddrick who claims that Bill Clinton, when he was Arkansas Attorney General, forced
himself on her in a Little Rock hotel room in 1978.
* You can read the rest of the story for yourself. It makes me too weary. Ms. Broaddrick has,
apparently, been avoiding and even evading reporters’ questions on this subject for years. She is
not writing a book, is not trying to become a regular on Internight, is not trying to make a
statement by bringing down a President, has not filed a lawsuit.
* That being said, let’s hear from the National Feminists’ Rights Patrol – Patricia Ireland and
Gloria Steinem – about whether THIS counts as, as a minimum, sexual harassment unlike the
Monica affair – which was “between consenting adults” or the Kathleen Willey encounter which
was a no-harm-no-foul deal because, as Gloria told us in her infamous NY Times op-ed piece, he
stopped when she told him to.
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