Ensign trouble deepens

Two weeks ago readers of the Complete Las Vegan will have noted this prescient sentence in a Sunday column:

"Watching Republicans and Democrats on tee-vee talk health care with the president last week reminded me of how much national recognition Sen. John Ensign's affair cost him and Nevada. John would have swung a big bat at that table. Instead, he's relegated to the shadows, a disgraced senator who doesn't matter much.

"Assuming there's not a legal shoe to drop in the form of an indictment for the way he stupidly handled the exit of his lover's husband from his staff (and I don't make that assumption, by the way), I'm not sure where John goes from here? ... "

Now comes the NYT's piece this evening in which the lede reads: "WASHINGTON — Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign’s efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles."

Deepen his trouble? No kidding.