Ethics Taint on Congress Could Deepen Risk for California’s Doolittle (CQPolitics.com via Yahoo! News)

There is never a good time for a politician to have a cloud of controversy hanging over his or her head. But this may be a particularly bad juncture for California Rep. John T. Doolittle — a long-entrenched Republican facing unresolved issues, stemming from his past ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, that carried over from his unusually close re-election contest in 2006.