Another Clinton Critical Scandal Mass?

Newsmax has a "tale of the tape" of Hillarynista aides currently in legal hot water.

Five members of Mrs. Clinton's inner circle now face indictment or trial, or have pleaded guilty to an array or crimes, with the news of the prosecutorial deluge emerging in just the last few months.

David Rosen, who served as Mrs. Clinton's finance director, is currently on trial in Los Angeles on charges that he cooked the books for her 2000 Senate campaign. If convicted on the three counts of fraud cited in his indictment, Rosen faces 15 years in jail and/or $250,000 in fines.

James Levin, who was a top fund-raiser for Mr. and Mrs. Clinton and served as the White House liaison for other fund-raisers during Mrs. Clinton's 2000 Senate race, revealed on Thursday that he was cooperating with prosecutors in Rosen's case after being accused of defrauding the Chicago public school system.

Raymond Reggie, who helped raise $100,000 for Mrs. Clinton 2000 Senate campaign, was indicted in April on bank fraud and conspiracy charges. In exchange for leniency, Reggie agreed to tape-record Clinton campaign insiders about illicit fund-raising activities. He faces up to five years in jail and fines.

Aaron Tonken, who helped organize several fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton that collected over $1.5 million, agreed in 2002 to cooperate with the FBI investigation into her Senate campaign.

Called "my good friend" by Mrs. Clinton in a video Tonken used to impress celebrities, the key witness lavished gifts on aides to the former first lady and visited the White House seven times in 2000 alone. Mr. Tonken is currently serving a 63-month jail sentence. The Justice Department has yet to release other details of his plea arrangement.

Sandy Berger, who served as Mr. Clinton's national security adviser and who continues to advise Mrs. Clinton, pleaded guilty in April to the theft and destruction of top secret documents related to the 9/11 Commission investigation. Because of the political sensitivity of Berger's crime, he was let off with a $10,000 fine and a three-year suspension of his security clearance.

As recently as February, Berger was advising Mrs. Clinton, with the New York Times revealing that he helped her prepare an address to a national security conference in Germany.

There are some who think that the pathological inability of the Clintons to ever deal honestly with anybody on anything, to say nothing of their like inability to ever recruit associates and underlings with a troy ounce of integrity and moral uprightness, and the inexorable interaction of the two that generates an endlessly procession of scandals, will bring back "Clinton fatigue" with a vengeance once Mrs. Clinton's presidential bid gets going in earnest, seriously hampering her chances of attaining her life's dream.

Since taking office, Senator Clinton's star had been on the rise, with Democrats encouraged over polls suggesting she had shed her reputation for ethical controversy. But the renewed swirl of scandal, punctuated by one indictment after another, "has some top party bosses feeling nervous," the U.K. Observer reported on Sunday.

"This sort of thing just serves to remind people of the Nineties scandals like Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky affair," University of California political scientist Shaun Bowler told the paper.

Bowler added, "Some Democrats have short memories - but I don't think that a lot of American voters do.

Sure they do. Because most of them didn't have memories at all during the bread & circuses '90s. Heck, they didn't even notice. They thought it was reality television, for heaven's sake.

Remember what Hillary said on 60 Minutes way back in early 1992 after the Gennifer Flowers tape came out: "We're a blue plate special - two for the price of one." That dynamic hasn't changed. It never really mattered whether Boris or Natasha officially sat in the big chair. She exercised the powers of the presidency regardless. His job was to get the votes and the high approval numbers, her job was to run the country. The only reason she fell from prominence after 1994 was that Bill's propaganda talents were more necessary to play defense against the ascendant GOP Congress, and all the more so since it was her crypto-Marxist policymaking that produced that situation in the first place.

What's changed since then is that Mrs. Clinton has become scarcely any less skilled in the arts of being a "faceman" than her sexually incontinent hubby. She's proven she can get votes, win elections, and put herself over as nearly anything she wants, in exquisite chameleon fashion.

That's not to say that she'll be unbeatable in 2008. But it is to say that the perpetual swirl of graft, corruption, and classlessness that clings to La Clinton Nostra like BO to a Frenchman just isn't going to be a serious impediment to their restoration atop the "Western summit."

It never was the first time around, despite all our endlessly wishful thinking. There's no reason to think that the sequel will be any different.