Strange Bedfellows, Indeed

Remember Ken Starr? Who could forget, really.

As the White House independent counsel during the Clinton administration, Starr led the investigations of Vince Foster's death, Whitewater, and the President's relationship with a young intern named Monica.

He also authored the Starr Report, a juicy legal document about cigars and a certain blue dress that eventually led to the vote for Clinton's impeachment.

The Clintons may have left the White House with Starr scars, but they could end up laughing all the way back.

Bloomberg News digs through campaign contributions to uncover this bit of "What Comes Around, Goes Around" news: Lawyers at the firm where Ken Starr now works, Kirkland & Ellis, have contributed more money to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign than they have to all of the Republican candidates combined.

Kirkland, it seems, is one of many Bush-backing corporate law firms that have shifted their support across the aisle, mainly "due to disenchantment with the Republican Party's social policies and the war in Iraq."

Starr declined to comment to Bloomberg. But he could have some company around the ol' water cooler at the office. Another Kirkland lawyer, Jay Lefkowitz, was President Bush's deputy domestic policy director who crafted the administration's policies on stem cell research before leaving the White House in 2003.

Lefkowitz isn't likely to abandon his left-leaning colleagues just yet. "We're in an early stage right now; people are looking to pick early winners," said Lefkowitz, who hasn't donated money to a candidate this year. "Once both parties have picked a frontrunner, donations to both candidates will balance out."

by Megan Barnett