| As my mother used to say, Dash was a day late and... 500 |
[Feb. 11th, 2010|03:34 am] |
As my mother used to say, Dash was a day late and a dollar short: Starr hadnt cared about the lawfulness of his behavior for a long time
Shortly before Thanksgiving, the House Republicans returned to Washington to elect Bob Livingston of Louisiana, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, as the new Speaker of the HouseHe would take office in January when the new session of Congress beganAt the time, most people thought the movement to impeach me was stalledSeveral moderate Republicans had said that they were opposed to it, and that the election had been a clear message that the American people wanted the Congress to reprimand or censure me and get on with the publics business
In the middle of the month, I settled the Paula Jones case for a large amount of money and no apologyI hated to do it because I had won a clear victory on the law and the facts in a politically motivated caseJoness lawyers had appealed her case to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, but the governing case law was clear: if the Court of Appeals followed its own decisions, I would win the appealUnfortunately, the three-judge panel assigned to hear the case was headed by Pasco Bowman, the same ultra-conservative judge who had removed Judge Henry Woods from one of the Whitewater cases on the basis of spurious newspaper articles after Woods had rendered a decision Starr didnt likePasco Bowman, like Judge David Sentelle in Washington, had shown that he was willing |
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