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". . .Let’s see: rig the districts; gin up your own manufactured scandal machines; ends justifies all means necessary; maintain power at all costs…does that about sum it up? It isn’t new — the Bush Administration has been doing this since they entered office, but no one ever seems to ask the questions that really need asking about this.
None of this — NONE — explains to me how Karl Rove can work as some sort of pseudo-GOP campaign uber-manager from the West Wing, ordering about the various executive branch agencies into a perpetual campaign-mode action plan and the hell with the long-term governance consequences, sending out minions and surrogates to teevee shows across the country and giving marching orders to the folks in Congress (even heading up to the Hill to twist arms on occasion by threatening to withold re-election funds, if the papers are to be believed on this), and receive a public salary for his public duties all the while. Any answers on this? Any campaign law experts out there want to weigh in — because I’m very serious about wanting to find some answers for myself…"
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