YES, ROVE HAS BEEN POLITICIZING THE STATE DEPARTMENT TOO... JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE

Front page in tomorrow's Washington Post Rove was politicizing the State Department the same way he was politicizing the Justice Department, the GSA, the Surgeon General's office... and every other piece of the machinery of government.

Rove and his deputies have illegally conducted god-only-knows-how-many (the Post says "at least half a dozen," which could mean a million but is probably somewhere between 6 and a million) Power Point presentations for diplomats "that named Democratic incumbents targeted for defeat in 2008." And if the Democrats don't do something-- something real about it, they don't deserve to escape what Rove has in store for them-- and we don't deserve such incompetent and flaccid leadership.

The documents show for the first time how the White House sought to ensure that even its appointees involved in foreign policy were kept attuned to the administration's election goals. Such briefings occurred semi-regularly over the past six years for staffers dealing with domestic policy, White House officials have previously acknowledged.

In one instance, State Department aides attended a White House meeting at which political officials examined the 55 most critical House races for 2002 and the media markets most critical to battleground states for President Bush's reelection fight in 2004, according to documents the department provided to the Senate committee.

Biden, the Democrats' joke of a Foreign Relations Committee Chair has been making some of his toothless Inside-the-Beltway low muffled bark-like sounds about this but, apparently no one ever told him what the Hatch Act is about and what it was meant to do. Either that or he doesn't care. Or both.