ARE THE POWER TOOLS NOW GHOSTWRITING MATERIAL FOR KARL ROVE?

John Hinderaker at Power Line yesterday:

CRIMINALIZING CONSERVATISM

Many liberals don't just want to defeat conservatives at the polls, they want to send them to jail. Toward that end, they have sometimes tried to criminalize what are essentially policy differences. President Obama hinted at another step in that direction when he said today that he is open to the idea of bringing criminal charges against the Justice Department lawyers who wrote opinions to the effect that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods could legally be used on al Qaeda detainees....

Karl Rove on Fox News last night:

"What the Obama administration has done in the last several days is very dangerous," Rove said.... "What they've essentially said is if we have policy disagreements with our predecessors... we're going to turn ourselves into the moral equivalent of a Latin American country run by colonels in mirrored sunglasses and what we're gonna do is prosecute systematically the previous administration, or threaten prosecutions against the previous administration, based on policy differences. Is that what we've come to in this country?"

There's no longer a point in the Republican Party where the establishment ends and the freelance ranters begin. Everyone in the GOP is now in the latter category.

(Hinderaker post via Instaputz.)