Oh, man, is the heat up on John Doolittle, even more than we speculated about earlier this week.

On the same day Kevin Ring, Doolittle's former Legislative Director, resigned from his law firm amid Justice Department inquiries, Rep. Doolittle's house was raided by the FBI.  The Congressman's office maintains that the focus of the raid was Doolittle's wife Julie, whose ties to Abramoff have been under investigation for some time.

From Roll Call (sub. req'd.):

And this is not going to make the GOP leadership happy:

To be fair, though, this really is just a continuation of the Abramoff scandal, not an entirely new one.  More details inside about the Doolittle household's ties to Jack Abramoff...