Posted on 11/09/2001 2:39:45 PM PST by truther
Ex-president Bill Clinton decided to resign from the U.S. Supreme Court bar on Friday rather than contest the finding that he was unfit to practice law there for one simple reason -- the Court called his bluff.
Recall the statement issued by his lawyer David Kendall last month, when the court issued its suspension order and gave Clinton forty days to make that case that he shouldn't be disbarred permanently.
"This suspension is simply a consequence of the voluntary settlement entered into last January with the Arkansas bar," Kendall told reporters in October. "Pursuant to the Supreme Court's order, we will show cause why disbarment is not appropriate."
That was then, this is now. And now Clinton's lawyer is singing a different tune.
"In order to avoid the burden of litigation for all parties, to achieve an expeditious and definitive resolution, and in acknowledgment that his actions merited censure, former President Clinton agreed to the suspension and fine,'' Kendall wrote Friday.
Gone was the boast that Clinton hadn't admitted to lying in his "no prosecution" plea bargain with Independent Counsel Robert Ray's office -- a claim Kendall made just in January, just hours after Ray said just the opposite.
Also vanished into thin air, the ex-President's promise that he's have "a lot to say" about all the charges leveled against him by various women.
"When I am out of office, I will have a lot to say about this," Clinton told a reporter who had asked about the Paula Jones case in October 1999. "When I'm done, then I can say what I want to say," he added.
Well, Clinton's been "done" for 10 months now and hasn't offered a peep about the Jones case since leaving the White House.
His big chance to clear the air and his name would have been to contest the Supreme Court's disbarment. Instead he resigned.
Clinton might have done the same thing three years ago had the U.S. Senate demonstrated as much integrity as the Court and held a real impeachment trial.
That would be nearly 12 years.
He does. I think it's that he craves attention so much he can't stand not being treated like the center of everything. It sounds like it's starting to drive him a little insane.
The guy is a classic narcissist - but when he starts talking about building the world, and how hard he worked to do it, I start hearing the theme from The Twilight Zone, personally!
In retrospect, Nixon should be blamed for allowing the huge expansion of the government and welfare state by LBJ, for his "wage and price controls" and some of his other policies. Nixon's misdeeds were, I will always believe, a response to the biased press corps that just HATED him. He certainly didn't need to steal anything from the Demo National Committee in 1972 and he didn't need and funny business to beat George McGovern -- but that paranoia ran deep after all the years of everybody hating Nixon. Think of how long Slick Willie would have lasted if he had the same adoring press Nixon had at the Washington Post, NY Times, etc. etc.
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