The Abramoff scandal finally hits the fan

This either will be all over the news tomorrow or won’t, but CNN was talking about it tonight.

Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call just broke what sounds like a doozy of a story:

House Report Details 485 Contacts Between Abramoff Team and White House Officials

Hundreds of contacts between top White House officials and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates “raise serious questions about the legality and actions” of those officials, according to a draft bipartisan report prepared by the House Government Reform Committee.

The 95-page report, which White House officials reviewed Wednesday evening but has yet to be formally approved by the panel, singled out two of President Bush’s top lieutenants, Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman, as having been offered expensive meals and exclusive tickets to premier sporting events and concerts by Abramoff and his associates.

Seems pretty damning to me. But at this point, I can’t immagine tha Rove won’t find a way to wiggle out of this, like everything else.

The accepted wisdom is that the Abramoff scandal won’t significantly affect the election, despite the ever-growing number of Republicans involved.

So what does everyone else think? Is this going to make any difference in 40-odd days ’til the we go to the unsecured, malfunctioning, electronic voting machines?

It’ll be interesting at least to see what kind of coverage this gets.

Seems like it should be on the front pages of just about everything, but it broke too late for the Friday papers.

Nothing like a story you can bury in the Saturday press.

Lets see what the TV news has to say about it tomorrow.

Update:

 The story did make it into the Times on page A18.

Seems like strange news judgement to me, but the WaPo has it on A12, so I guess the big boys are against me.

 

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