So much muck to rake...

Paul Kiel at TPMmuckraker has his hands full with the so-called McCain Report. It doesn't look good for lots of people including Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, Michael Scanlon, Bob Ney and Federici, Griles and Norton at the Department of the Interior. Looks bad for pretty much everybody being investigated, in fact, as Josh Marshall put it, "As long as you're not one of the lawmakers McCain is protecting, it's something of a bloodbath".

Sample:

Let's remind ourselves of who Ms. Federici is. She heads up a group called the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA), a rightwing front group that, as Michael Scherer put it, "argues it is healthy for forests to clear-cut trees, good for the air to weaken air-quality controls, and "environmentally responsible" to drill for oil in the Alaskan wilderness."

More importantly, Federici had "juice" (as Abramoff put it in an email) at Interior, because she'd worked closely with Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who'd founded CREA. So Abramoff directed his clients to pump money into CREA and asked for a steady stream of favors from Federici. Abramoff's clients gave $500,000 -- a substantial portion of CREA's funds came from Abramoff.