Karl Rove has been politically threatening "virtually every Republican on the Senate committee as well as the leadership in Congress" with blacklisting if they vote against the President in the NSA wiretapping scandal. Senators on Rove's blacklist won't receive any political or financial support from the Grand Ol' Party in the upcoming elections. On the other hand, those who Rove determines are "loyal" will receive the all the money and all the love. I can't imagine it's the first time Turd Blossom (W gave him the nickname) has bullied his allies.
The sources said the administration has been alarmed over the damage that could result from the Senate hearings, which began on Monday, Feb. 6. They said the defection of even a handful of Republican committee members could result in a determination that the president violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Such a determination could lead to impeachment proceedings.
That puts the Republican Senators in a very precarious position: Between a suspicious public and a vicious Rove. If Republicans shirk their duty to check and balance the executive branch in such an obvious way, there are enough liberals and libertarians watching that it could go either way for Rove. So, I guess they oughta be asking themselves if this ship is worth going down with.
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Hi, thanks for your post. You got me curious since the Insight article is behind a subscription wall. So I looked it up on Google and found this article on Yahoo News co-written by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060210/cm_thenation/20060227brecher;_ylt=A86.I251Iu1Dd8oAKBf9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--
The article originally appeared in The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060227/brecher
I hope people keep an eye on this story. A lot of us have assumed something of this sort was going on.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't want to post the whole article, since I felt it'd be wrong as it's subscription only, but important info.
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