Josh Marshall:
The idea that a senator calls a US Attorney at home just weeks before a federal elections and tries to jawbone him into indicting someone to help a friend get reelected is shocking. Think about it for a second. It's genuinely shocking. At a minimum one would imagine such bad acts take place with more indirection and deniability. And yet the Domenici-Iglesias call has now been relegated to the status of a footnote in the expanding scandal, notwithstanding the fact that there's now documentary evidence showing that Domenici's substantial calls to the White House and Justice Department played a direct role in getting Iglesias fired.
Not only that: Karl Rove has a long and well-known history of pursuing this tactic in many, many of the campaigns he's been involved in. In short, stealing elections is his forte. So it shouldn't be a surprise that he'd be moving the chess pieces into place for 2008, even though he won't have a candidate running then; it doesn't matter: he's already on-record favoring a permanent Republican majority.
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