How to create a PermaGov 101.
July 31 (Bloomberg) — Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm that’s home to Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Bush administration official Jay Lefkowitz, have given more to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign than to all of the top Republican candidates combined.
They’re very clever. They have reasons.
“The Iraq war has a very significant pull on people, but it’s not just limited to that,” said Kirk Radke, a New York partner at Kirkland who is fundraising for Clinton. “There’s the need for a better posture within the international community.”
Maybe these guys really are concerned about Bush’s foreign policy but you can bet that they wouldn’t be donating to the Clintons if they didn’t think they are coming back into power. At best, they’d throw a little money their way to hedge their bets. But payback can be a bitch, and if they want to do business in a Clinton-run Washington, there is little matter of making amends for that impeachment thing.
This is how it works. It ain’t pretty.
