I OWE Bootsie the Bookie $100 for a horse that is still running.
But Bootsie owes $40 to his lay-off guy, Joey in Vegas.
Do I make my $100 check out to both Bootsie and Joey?
Of course not.
I owe the money to Bootsie, not Joey. The debt to Joey is Bootsie’s business.
Now if we all understand the simplicity of this, even the most hand-wrenching Clintonista must come to a conclusion.
And that is their fearless leader is a sniveling, vindictive, spoiled, nasty boy.
Now I say again for the umpteenth time, forget the “M” lady.
But let’s not forget Paula Corbin Jones, a married woman. And let’s not forget she alleged that Clinton, while governor, did a flash dance in front of her in a Little Rock hotel.
Paula sues the Commander-in-Briefs for $750,000 plus an apology.
She gets neither.
District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright throws the case out of court.
Clinton was so ecstatic over the decision that, while on a state trip to Africa, he celebrated by smoking a cigar and beating the hell out of a conga drum.
Three bunches of lawyers represented Paula Corbin Jones. They were:
The first legal team: Joseph Cammarata and Gil Davis of Washington.
The second: Rader, Fisher, Campbell and Pike. And then there was the Rutherford Institute, headed by John Whitehead.
Now, all these lawyers actually lost the case before a judge.
But when Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel everyone loves to hate, put the heat on, suddenly Billy Boy ponies up $850,000 to Paula Jones.
Whoever heard of anyone paying damages for a case they won?
Now the crunch.
In a parting shot, Clinton has to take his nasty little jab.
He makes the check out to Paula and the companies of three different law teams.
Paula can’t cash this check.
The conservative Rutherford Institute on Friday claimed in court that they want $424,000 of Paula’s settlement.
But wait for it. Her first legal team wants $874,000.
Her second team of lawyers is disputing the whole thing.
And this was for a case that was thrown out of court. Some lawyers they were.
“It’s an in-your-face act,” Susan Carpenter McMillan said.
Susan is a friend and adviser to Paula.
Her husband, William McMillan, a lawyer, is now representing Paula for free.
This act of Clinton’s, to inflict further emotional and financial pain on a woman whom apparently he clearly wronged, is nauseating.
Imagine if you got a $50 parking fine from the city of New York. But the city of New York owes the state of New York money. What would happen if you made the check out to the city of New York and the state of New York?
You’d be laughed out of court.
Bill Clinton doesn’t owe the lawyers for Paula Jones anything. He owes Paula Jones that money. It is so typical of his weaseling.
My old friend G. Gordon Liddy, who stood up and took 4 years in jail for his part in Watergate and is now a talk show host, said:
“He is full of self-pity, self-indulgence and whether what is going on now in Washington reaches the level of impeachment is up to other people. But he doesn’t, in my estimation, reach to the level of being a man.”
The public may wish to turn a blind eye on the allegations of the “M” lady, and to some degree, who can blame the public?
But any clear-thinking human being cannot turn a blind eye to the one word we strive so much to achieve – character.