>"I have believed from Day 1 that the White House is involved [in organizing the recall against California Gov. Davis]," long-time Davis adviser Garry South said. "No one can convince me that if Karl Rove did not want it to happen that he couldn't call off the dogs," he said, referring to Mr. Bush's political adviser.<
This ignores the fact that the GOP in California has a big component of ultra-rightists who may be ideologically pleasant to Rove, Cheney, and their Bush, but is self-destructive and therefore pragmatically unacceptable. I don't think Darrell Issa -- the guy who got this circus started -- was responding to the White House's instructions. Jim
