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Office." (Evidently, DiIulio never met a poised young woman in the Clinton White House by
the name of Dee Dee Myers!)
"We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has
ever fucked him." Now, I like a little dirty talk as much as the next fellow. The only difference
between me and Karl Rove is that I like to keep it in the bedroom. Rove's "fucking"
quote was reported by Suskind, who overheard the meltdown while waiting outside Rove's
office. The name of the man about to be fucked may never be known, but it's safe to say that
he was fucked like no one had ever fucked him.
One person not afforded the courtesy of being fucked in private was Tom Daschle,
who, because of Jeffords's defection, was now Senate majority leader.
One GOP official told the Washington Post that orders to crush Daschle had come directly
from the West Wing. Rush Limbaugh, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican
Party, began referring to Daschle as "El Diablo." Limbaugh's Spanish-speaking listeners got
the message. Daschle was either "a devil" or "the devil." (No one on TearnFranken ever took
Spanish.)
In the fall of 2001, ads began to appear comparing the somewhat liberal El Diablo to
more radical political figures, such as Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and American
Taliban John Walker Lindh.
"What do Saddam Hussein and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle have in common?"
asked a newspaper ad that juxtaposed the two men. "Neither man wants America to
drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." (Also, both men are Libras.)
After 9/11, the balance between civil liberties and national security would be put to a severe
test. Fortunately for those who came down heavily on the national security side, John
Ashcroft was the one making most of the close calls. Could we round up immigrants and not
let them see lawyers? Sure. Could we conduct all their hearings in secret? Yes. Could we detain
Muslims who had done nothing wrong by calling them "material witnesses"? Fabulous
idea. Could we keep people locked up for months in horrifying conditions without letting
their families know they'd been detained? Why not?