Last evening, smelling blood in the water, Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall picked up on the Denver Post's earlier reporting of Bob Schaffer holding the immigration system in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands out as a model for how he thinks the U.S. immigration system should work, and provided some background on how that really worked--women "getting beaten, raped or coerced into having abortions."
This morning, the Denver Post reported in a front page story about Bob Schaffer's Jack Abramoff ties and his so-called "fact-finding mission." Among the facts that Bob apparently found were that he looks really bad in shorts, parasailing is fun, and "palm-studded beach resort[s]" are more fun when his stay in one is free thanks to Jack Abramoff. The wife thought so too.
The Post can't drop a bombshell like that without the whole universe picking it up. It is literally a blogswarm of epic proportion. Later in the morning, TPM came out with this video as a brush-up on some of the history of the Abramoff scandal:
Then, outdoing themselves, TPM revealed further background on the implicit Abramoff-Schaffer connection via the explicit and very public connection between Schaffer and sweatshop executive and Abramoff crony Ben Fitial.
The story comes out more and more by the hour, and Schaffer has yet to say one word in his own defense. Things are not looking good for Bob Schaffer. Not good at all--nor should they; he's created a big mess for himself. Schaffer once commented that he was the Dr. Phil of the Republican Party.
Heal thyself, Dr. Phil.
Update: We almost missed the AP coverage with this gem from Dick Wadhams who (literally) sounds like a broken record:
"We do look forward to when Boulder liberal Udall has Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to Colorado for Boulder liberal Udall to defend Sen. Reid's involvement with Abramoff," he said.
Poor Dick sounds like he's just about over the edge.
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