This is shaping up to be a great scandal.  I’ve been all over the blogosphere this morning, so here’s a smattering.

• Bradblog hints that the scandal might be an “iceberg” – there’s more to it than the stadium/house mess we learned about last night.
• Erick the Red is so angry that he’s writing sentences such as: “Sarah Palin has been the subject of vicious, vile attacks. Her family and key staff have all been driven to the verge of financial ruin by relentless legal attacks that are routinely thrown out, but still must be offended.”
• Buckeye Sam at Hot Air says, without a trace of irony, that now that Sarah is “unleashed and no longer hamstrung by her office, she’ll be a boondoggle to conservative candidates.”

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Andrea Mitchell:

Talibunny to resign.

The question is … why? If she was going to challenge Murkowski she’d stay in office.

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From back when the Whackjob from Wasilla was running for VP:

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Palin’s AIP involvement came out early on in Salon, but few seem to be talking about it now that Palin is back in the news big time. Why not?

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Also, guess what $400,000 in educational debt prevents you from doing?

More on this story here.

I have officially abandoned all hope:

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff.”

Have I mentioned how much I hate fucking Fred Hiatt?

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