I was watching a bit of ABC News last night when Charlie Gibson intoned omniously that Washington expected a bombshell today about "undisclosed" ties between Abramoff and the White House.

You expect these things during an election season, but if this is the best the Democrats can do, then kudos to the Bush administration. No intern scandals, no leak scandals (expected in the moonbat's fevered imagination), no financial improprieties--and its been six years.

A little closer reading and the source for all these undisclosed contacts turns out to be the Abramoff billing records.

Its been established that Abramoff is a crook, but for some reason, Democrats are hailing his billing records are the model of corporate accounting. Jack Abramoff would never, ever overbill his clients for fictional meetings with White House staff, would he? Nah.

What's really funny though is that these are simply contacts by Abramoff's lobby firm--a distinction that Harry Reid thought was so important in his own extensive contacts with Abramoff's. You see Harry's contacts were "routine" as opposed to the Bush administration contacts, which are "nefarious"

The article mentions Abramoff associate Ronald Platt several times, describing him as a member of the "Democratic team" at Abramoff's firm, and quotes Reid spokesman Jim Manley saying that Reid met regularly with Platt to discuss policy issues. But while the story notes that Reid met with Platt in June 2001 to discuss the minimum wage bill, and reports that Platt "began billing for routine contacts and meetings with Reid's staff" in March 2001, it did not quote Platt at any point. Further, blogger Joshua Micah Marshall reported Platt's assertion that the AP reporters did not even attempt to contact him for the article.

Harry Reid of course, did not disclose any of this.

I am waiting to hear what the Democrats are going to say about the alleged Abramoff contacts with the Bush administration since it would only be fair for Reid to judged by the judgment by which he judges others...