Can't Gennifer Flowers get any respect? Here's a woman who told us all we need to know about Bill Clinton, and America kind of shoved her aside -- shut up, lady, we've got a New Democrat to elect. The tapes she made of the then-governor showed us Clinton in all his glory, pressing the themes of his lifetime: "If everybody's on record denying it, you've got no problem." And, "If everybody kind of hangs tough, they're just not gonna do anything." And, "They can't run a story like this unless somebody says, 'Yeah, I did it with him.'"
Well, Flowers said she "did it with him," and now Monica Lewinsky is set to do the same. Early on, credible reports had it that Lewinsky quoted the president as telling her, "There is no evidence, so you can deny, deny, deny." And last week, we heard that Lewinsky will tell the grand jury that Clinton said to her, "If there are two people in a room and something happens and they both deny it, there is no way to prove it."
So Boss Clinton marches on, organizing everyone around him to fool the feds, imposing a code of silence -- omerta. Here's one more thing that Clinton told Flowers on those tapes, after she'd remarked that she heard Mario Cuomo was a "mafioso": "Well, he certainly looks like one." Perhaps Cuomo should now hold a press conference to say, "Who looks like a mafioso now, Bill?"