Today's front-page story by Jim McElhatton on the connections between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign and the Soros-backed group Americans Coming Together (ACT) -- recently hit with a near-record FEC fine for its campaign law violations -- inspired at least one blogger to call the New York Democrat "Hillary Rodham-Soros." (That sobriquet appears to have been originally applied to Mrs. Clinton in a Huffington Post humor column by Danielle Crittenden.)

Meanwhile, Curt at Flopping Aces reminds us that he blogged about this in July -- before ACT was fined $775,00 by the FEC -- drawing on revelations in the book "The Shadow Party" by David Horowitz and Richard Poe.

Both bloggers and the MSM have shown a certain "dog-bites-man" attitude toward news of the Soros-Clinton connection. As Jammie Wearing Fool mockingly headlines his post, "Shocker: Mrs. Clinton Tied to Shady Soros Group."

Like her husband -- whose multiple scandals inspired Sen. Bob Dole to complain "Where's the outrage?" -- Mrs. Clinton seems to be invulnerable to scandal, simply because a new Clinton scandal is more or less expected from time to time.

Fugitive fundraiser funnels cash to the Clinton campaign and then takes it on the lam? Yawn. Clinton-connected, billionaire-backed group cops a plea for violating federal campaign finance laws? Ho hum.

Even the connection between Mrs. Clinton, Soros and MoveOn.org's "General Betray Us" ad doesn't produce any serious outrage, except from Republicans like Mike Huckabee:

"If you can't get your lips off the backside of George Soros long enough to use those lips to say it's wrong to declare a sitting general . . . guilty of treason," the 2008 Republican presidential hopeful said, "how would you ever expect to have the support of the very military you might have to send into deadly battle?"

What this story demonstrates is that there is little to no consequence for Democrats who violate the campaign laws. Whether it is vote fraud or or illegal campaigning they just MoveOn to another organization and keep on campaigning. The defunct organization pays a fine, but the perps just move to another entity.

-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times

UPDATE 4:30 p.m.:

Bryan Preston at Hot Air links Jim McElhatton's story and observes:

Hillary cannot plausibly claim to not know that ACT was both connected to Soros and that it was the third most heavily fined election law violator in US history. And she hired much of its top tier to help run her campaign.