Yesterday, as noted below, the Senate Republicans shut down movement on S. 1, the ethics reform legislation.   The specter of Jack Abramoff looms large over this debate.  Yet, in an interesting twist, a leading ally of Abramoff, Grover Norquist, is leading the charge against a provision inspired by Abramoff's antics according to The Washington Post:

And interest groups would have had to reveal the money they spend on campaigns to rally voters for or against legislation, a provision that had raised the ire of conservative activists such as Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform as well as the National Right to Life Committee. Proponents of the provision said it would combat activities brought to light during the Jack Abramoff scandal. Abramoff, a once-powerful Republican lobbyist now in federal prison, channeled millions of dollars from Indian gambling clients through nonprofit groups run by former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed and Norquist to fund campaigns against rival tribal interests.

Late last year, a Senate report found that Norquist had laundered money for Abramoff.  In March 2006, CREW filed a complaint with the IRS alleging that Norquist's organizations laundered money for the notorious lobbyist:

The complaint alleges that Norquist used either or both ATR and ATR Foundation as commercial enterprises by laundering money derived from Indian casino clients of former lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff. The casinos made contributions to ATR, which then skimmed a fee off the top before passing the money on to former Christian activist Ralph Reed and other anti-gambling activists. In this way, Norquist, Reed and Abramoff were able to disguise the fact that the money used to fund anti-gambling activities was generated through Indian gambling. The point of the anti-gambling campaigns was to prevent competition to the Indian casinos.