Cursor's Media Patrol - 01/04/06

"This one has legs," an FBI official tells the New York Times, as Dems are urged to "run on ethics," while the Los Angeles Times reports that 'Abramoff Reached Beyond the Limits,' even in a 1972 student council election.

Firedoglake argues that recess appointee Alice Fisher, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, "should have recused herself" from the Abramoff case, as a "new statement by Abramoff is rumored to have caught a great number of DC lawmakers off-guard!"

Garance Franke-Ruta profiles "the most important Democratic tactician you've never heard of."