The White House has been twisting arms to ensure that no Republican member votes against President Bush in the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation of the administration's unauthorized wiretapping.
Congressional sources said Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has threatened to blacklist any Republican who votes against the president. The sources said the blacklist would mean a halt in any White House political or financial support of senators running for re-election in November.
And a comment from About:
Karl Rove wouldn't feel the need to threaten senators unless he and/or others in the White House thought that there was a good chance that even a Republican senator might conclude, based upon the evidence, that President Bush broke the law and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution. Such senators probably start out any evaluation with at least some bias in favor of the president, so it's reasonable to conclude that if these senators are likely to end up voting against the president unless they are threatened, then the evidence against the president must be pretty strong.
If warrantless spying on Americans is legal, as Bush claims, what is Rove so worried about? After all, if you're not doing anything illegal, you have nothing to worry about...
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