GOP hijacks Elections with Federal Help

Very poor head line but I don't know how to condense the truth down enough to fit the space.

Political appointees to the Department of Justice, under direction of Karl Rove and George Bush, rigged a state wide election. When the initial results gave a victory to the incumbent Democrats, GOP operatives changed vote tallies. That isn't real news. Nor is it news that the GOP got caught.

The news is how all these things link together with the attorney firings by the Bush White House.

The White House fired a group of impartial prosecuters with good performance reviews for ... performance issues. Well, performance issues were the first line of defense. When the performance records were reviewed, the second line of defense came screaming out of the Oval Office.

The Occupant of the Oval Office said he could fire anyone anytime for any reason. "I am the War President!"

So eventually, the President shifted the blame to Gonzales. Gonzales, like Libby, Rumsfeld, and Tenet took the blame for the illegal internal actions of the White House.

Meanwhile, before the White House got caught, some innocent people went to jail while corrupt election officials bragged a little too much about how they rigged a few elections, a few trials, and a couple convictions.

Don Siegelman, a former Democratic governor of Alabama, should be at the top of the list. Jill Simpson, an Alabama lawyer and Republican operative, is heading to Washington this week to tell Congressional investigators that she heard prominent Republicans plotting to use the United States attorneys’ offices to remove Mr. Siegelman as a political threat. The case should be the focus of a probing Congressional hearing this fall.

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