Ensign allegations: A little independent confirmation, please

When the New York Times first raised this possibility that Sen. John Ensign's infidelity mess might go from personal icky to public felony, Democrats could barely keep their pants dry.

I’d advise a healthy pinch of skepticism.

The key information source is still a very weird jilted hubby -- a guy who when he finds out his wife’s doing the midnight two-step with the boss seeks to remedy the infidelity with money and, now, a cooked-up lobbying job?

If you now ask me to believe that Sen. Ensign went straight-up to the executives at two local companies and roped them into using Doug Hampton as part of some kind of wink-wink lobbying deal that could land people a felony conviction and five years in jail, I’m telling you, please and thank you, I need more than Doug Hampton’s say-so to prove it.

That’s not too much to ask. Is is?