Country Less Important Than Party

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.

"It's hardball all the way," a senior GOP congressional aide said.

Rule of Law? Not for these guys. Get to the bottom of it? Yeah, right. Read the whole article here.

Abu Gonzales' testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Specter refused to swear the AG, of course) was little more than, "You're just going to have to trust us on this." Pardon me if that doesn't give me the warm-fuzzies. When you look at all the other things this administration has been "trusted" to do, it's tough to find a success story anywhere.

Interesting Plamegate story from Time's John Dickerson here. We live in interesting times.

UPDATE: A good debate on the domestic spying issue between Glenn Greenwald and John Hinderaker should be upcoming on today's On Point (in Nashville, @ 5:00 p.m., 1430AM WPLN). Don't miss it -- I sure won't.
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