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.
Right now, Jimmy Carter’s on the T.V. set talking at Coretta’s funeral. George W. Bush is there too. They’re all talking about the Civil Rights Movement. They’re talking about the South I grew up in where elections were fixed and political power was wielded by the few, the few who used intimidation and fear to subvert the Democratic process and ignore the rights we’re promised in our Bill of Rights.
Right now, in a room somewhere in Washington, the Senate Judiciary Committee is meeting about unwarranted, illegal wiretapping of Americans by our own National Security Agency. It seems that while George W. Bush and his father are sitting on the stage at Coretta’s funeral, Karl Rove is in Washington intimidating the Senators from his own party, using fear tactics reminescent of the ones Martin Luther King and his wife marched against – the kind of tactics that resulted in Martin Luther King’s death.
It’s not ironic. It’s tragic. And it’s not a forced analogy. It is increasingly clear that the sleazy back rooms of political power that many of us grew up with and marched against in the 1960s, are now replicated in our National Capital on a daily basis.
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