Hillary's Embarrassment of Riches

A sparsely detailed story at the top of the Drudge Report gives a glimpse of the fire hose of money that's been aimed at the Clinton's (particularly Bill) since the former First Family left Washington.

The eye-popping headline: $109.2 million in combined income from 2000-2007.

It's worth noting that Drudge and Breitbart don't explicitly define what they mean by "income".  Judging by some of the other numbers they give, this probably refers to a pre-tax, and pre-charitable donation total.  The following figures are also given:

Feds Taxes Paid: $33.7 million
Charity: $10.2 million
Her Senate Salary: $1,051,606
His Presidential Pension: $1,217,250
Her Book Income: $10,457,083
His Book Income: $29,580,525
His Speech Income: $51,855,599

This also doesn't include state taxes, the mountains of personal debt they'd amassed toward the end of their legally adventuresome tenure in the White House, the loan Hillary recently made to her campaign, or annual living expenses.

Taking those into account, here's my quick estimate of their cumulative disposable income between 2000 and 2007:

I'm making rough assumptions about their debt in 2000 and their cost of living since.  If you come across better published estimates, give me a shout.

The biggest jaw-dropper is Bill's speech income - $52 million over 7 years.  The Clintons previously disclosed that Bill made $31 million in speech income between 2001 and 2005.  Apparently, he became a lot more loquacious in 2006 and 2007, because his annual take jumped from $6.2 million to $10.5 million.

This line item is of genuine importance, of course, because of Hillary's campaign loan of $5 million of her "own money".  There's no question that - as her husband's spouse - that money was indeed her money.  But it would be illuminating to know where it came from.  What sources were shoveling tens of millions of dollars at her husband, thus enabling her to afford such a bountiful loan to her campaign?

I mean I hate to be "that guy" who's all suspicious of the Clinton's financial dealings, but...

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Update:  Allah's got some more.

Per Clinton's campaign site, cumulative after-tax income was $57.1 million.  Eh, I was pretty close with $58.5.

Update:  On the 2007 summary (pdf), we also find this gem:

Advisor income from InfoUSA $400,000

How charming that they're still harvesting a few hundred thousand a year from InfoUSA's shareholders, via their pal Vin Gupta.

Until now, it had been more than two months since news of additional shady dealings between Hillary and Gupta had bubbled up (the last one being the time she was noticed (by this blog) selling her campaign contributor list to Gupta's company (the one still paying her enormous "advisor" fees) which had earlier been found to sell such lists to criminals who prey on senior citizens).

I was starting to worry they might've parted ways in the wake of that particularly unseemly revelation.

Previously: Guess Who Hillary's Selling Her Contributor List To