A "Ruh-Roh!" for Hillary?

I just love the first sentence of this Newsmax story:

A former strip club owner and close personal friend of ex-President Clinton....

You can sum up the forty-second presidency in that baker's dozen words, cantcha?

...has flipped on Hillary Clinton's finance chairman, David Rosen, testifying for the prosecution against Rosen on Thursday in a surprise move sure to cause consternation in the Clinton camp.

Oh, but maybe I'm not being fair to this honest, upstanding FOB. Let's take a look at him.

Jim Levin [of course!] spent the night at the White House at least twice in 2000. Now a fence company executive, the government witness contributed $1 million to Clinton's presidential library.

"He wasn't particularly political before I became president," Mr. Clinton said in 2000, speaking of Levin to a New Jersey fund-raiser. "[But] we got to be very close," he added.

The former topless club owner agreed to cooperate in Rosen's prosecution only a few weeks ago as part of his own plea bargain to end a bribery/conspiracy case against him, according to the New York Post.

Hmmm; he's corrupt, crooked, criminal, carnal, and a barnacle on the SS Clintanic; nope, I was right the first time.

How much of a threat to Mrs. Clinton's ascension does his turning state's evidence pose? Judge for yourself.

On Thursday, Levin offered damaging testimony that Rosen knew that the costs of an August 2000 gala fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton were spiraling out of control - and had already decided to lie about them.

"The cost of this event will never be the cost of this event," Levin quoted Rosen as telling him. Levin's account contradicts claims from the former first couple, who have said through their scandal lawyer, David Kendall, that Rosen is innocent.

Which, of course, is why they now suddenly "never knew" Rosen or anything that he was doing on their behalf, and at their explicit direction. Think Tom DeLay or George W. Bush could ever get away with so flaccid an amnesia dodge, if it was in either man to be so dishonorable as to attempt it?

With Levin joining Peter Paul in turning against them, and Rosen's loyalty rapidly going by the boards, the Boris and Natasha of the Ozarks may be in for some unaccustomedly "interesting times" in the weeks and months ahead.

In the meantime, Sick Willie, at least, can comfort himself in moist memories.

According to Hollywood mogul Peter Paul, who bankrolled the August 2000 fund-raiser, and Aaron Tonken, who rounded up the celebrities for the tribute to the first couple, it was Levin who persuaded Mr. Clinton that the gala was a good idea.

Paul has also alleged that the former strip club owner supplied Mr. Clinton with "female companionship" inside the White House.

Kinda gets ya right here, doesn't it?