It appears that the apple of America's eye, Karl Rove, has put an ... ahem ... offer on the table for GOP senators. Either vote for Bush's right to conduct illegal wiretaps, or consider themselves cut off from campaign funding and political support from the White House for the November elections. The fear is supposedly that any vote against Bush potentially makes him (gasp) in violation of the FISA law he is currently violating.

Sounds like cutting off your nose to spite your face in many ways. One can hope that the GOP senators realize that this administration is a political liability that they can ill afford come November, and vote the way that they know is right. Of course we can also dream that the public realizes what this ultimatum means in regards to their GOP representative if Bush gets away with this.