Hillary Spot

Yeah, I know NRO will take that name when 2008 rolls around. So I might as well get some mileage out of it while it's still in the public domain.

Hillary Stands By Indicted Aide

New York Senator Hillary Clinton is making a public point of standing by her indicted campaign aide David Rosen, who served as finance chairman for her 2000 Senate race.

"David Rosen worked hard for the campaign and we trust that when all the facts are in, he will be cleared," Mrs. Clinton's scandal lawyer, David Kendall, said in a statement released yesterday. "The Senate campaign committee has fully cooperated with the investigation."

This is what, in the Clinton handbook, is known as a "feint." Also a "flyby." The Clintons appear to back up an underling under fire, which makes them look both loyal and confidently innocent, and then, when the underling falls on his/her sword, they back away, expressing "shock" and "disappointment" that keeps the attention focused anywhere but on them.

Oh, yeah, Rosen's going down. Big time. He just won't be allowed to take Mrs. Clinton down with him.

Here's that sword (reported last week), by the way:

The top Democrat came to Rosen's defense the same day prosecutors revealed that Senator Ted Kennedy's brother-in-law Ray Reggie secretly taped Rosen on several occasions making "incriminating statements."

Reggie, who was cooperating with investigators as part of his plea bargain on bank fraud charges, wore a wire for three years as he arranged fund-raisers for top Democrats, including the Clintons.

I'm sure the above makes perfect sense, in a cosmic den of thieves kind of way. Kind of like if two of Ghidra's heads squared off against one another.

Not that Hillary is necessarily out of the woods yet....

Peter Paul: Hillary Still a Target

The man whose allegations spurred a four-year FBI probe into an August 2000 celebrity fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton's first Senate campaign is calling the top Democrat "an unindicted co-conspirator" - a claim that contradicts published reports that prosecutors do not consider Clinton a target of the investigation.

"She is an unindicted co-conspirator in the true sense of the word," Mr. Paul told NewsMax in an exclusive interview on Friday.

Okay, okay, she is out of the woods, and in the usual way. Remember the "sealed indictment" of the then-first dragon that was supposedly sitting on omnibus Independent Counsel Ken Starr's desk that was always "on the brink" of being unsealed? "Unindicted co-conspirator" sounds eerily similar, doesn't it?

Of course, as big a control freak as Mrs. Clinton is, it's beyond laughable to try to suggest that she didn't know anything about the "under the table" details of this Hollywood fundraiser. Of course she knew about them - and approved them as well. It was her campaign, for heaven's sake.

That's where David Rosen came in. His title may have been "finance chairman" (i.e. "bagman"), but his true function was "cannon fodder."

What amazes me is where the Clintons keeping finding these suckers. As ubiquitously infamous as the Boris & Natasha of the Ozarks are for reducing anybody who associates with them to the status of pawns on a chessboard (e.g. Sandy Berger) and treating their staffers like Josef Stalin did the Russian infantry, you'd think the word would get around that going to work for these two isn't a good idea, at least if your personal reputation still means anything to you.

That observation is a neat segue into the final HS item....

Bush Boosting Hillary in '08?

By befriending Bill Clinton so enthusiastically, ex-President George H.W. Bush is inadvertently helping Hillary Clinton to reclaim the White House in 2008, a longtime Bush family confidante said Sunday.

"They're trying to move Hillary to the center for 2008, and this helps de-demonize her and her husband," the unnamed Bush insider tells the New York Daily News.

An unidentified Clinton aide agreed that the ex-presidents' warm relationship is giving Hillary's presidential bid a big boost, proclaiming, "It gives [Mr.] Clinton back some legitimacy."

If you had any lingering doubts about why Bush41 lost to that fat, lecherous hillbilly, that should blisteringly dispel them.

But surely this bewitching is limited to just the hapless Pappy, right? Dubya has to know better, doesn't he?

Wrong, pork-rind breath.

Until recently, most Republicans had been confident that the former first lady couldn't win a general election, secure in the knowledge that the Monica Lewinsky scandal had left both Clintons irreparably tarnished.

President George W. Bush used the scandal to great effect during his own 2000 campaign, regularly promising audiences that he would "restore the honor and dignity of the White House."

But now both Bushes seem determined to rehabilitate the impeached Democrat. [my gagging emphasis]

Click on the link above if you want to read the rest. Just be sure to have a barf bag handy.

Or click here for a preview of what the third Clinton administration has in store, and start packing your bags for the Alaska gulag.

UPDATE: The Christian Defense League called Hillary's bluff on outreach to the evangelical community. That'll earn Reverend Mahoney and his comrades extra long sentences in the on the chain gang dismantling the Alaska pipeline.

I hope he stocks up on mukluks, while there's still time.