Former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik will attend the inauguration of President Bush, a Kerik spokesman said Tuesday.

Kerik, who in December withdrew his nomination to become Bush's next secretary of homeland security, had been invited to the Thursday inauguration and a private party being thrown by his old boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Kerik's spokesman, Robert Leonard, said Kerik and his wife will travel to Washington for the ceremony and related parties....

--Newsday


I know it's not exactly comparable, but gee, I don't hear any reactions remotely like this:

"He came in here and he trashed the place," says Washington Post columnist David Broder, "and it's not his place."...

Bill Galston, former deputy domestic policy adviser to Clinton and now a professor at the University of Maryland, says of the scandal that "most people in Washington believe that most people in Washington are honorable and are trying to do the right thing. The basic thought is that to concede that this is normal and that everybody does it is to undermine a lifetime commitment to honorable public service."...

"This is a community in all kinds of ways," says ABC correspondent Cokie Roberts... "....We think being a worthwhile public servant or journalist matters."

"This is our town," says Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first Democrat to forcefully condemn the president's behavior. "We spend our lives involved in talking about, dealing with, working in government. It has reminded everybody what matters to them. You are embarrassed about what Bill Clinton's behavior says about the White House, the presidency, the government in general."...

Muffie Cabot, who as Muffie Brandon served as social secretary to President and Nancy Reagan, regards the scene with despair. "This is a demoralized little village," she says. "People have come from all over the country to serve a higher calling and look what happened. They're so disillusioned. The emperor has no clothes. Watergate was pretty scary, but it wasn't quite as sordid as this."...