Karl Rove is identified as the architect of the illegal funneling of federal funds to Republican candidates. I just love being right.

Thirteen months before President Bush was reelected, chief strategist Karl Rove summoned political appointees from around the government to the Old Executive Office Building. The subject of the Oct. 1, 2003, meeting was "asset deployment," and the message was clear:

The staging of official announcements, high-visibility trips and declarations of federal grants had to be carefully coordinated with the White House political affairs office to ensure the maximum promotion of Bush's reelection agenda and the Republicans in Congress who supported him, according to documents and some of those involved in the effort.

"The White House determines which members need visits," said an internal e-mail about the previously undisclosed Rove "deployment" team, "and where we need to be strategically placing our assets."

So Karl Rove directed millions of dollars of federal grants and high level visits from officials to Republicans who were in difficult fights to hang onto their jobs. This is why Rove is ducking for cover. If the Democrats can make the case that federal money was withheld from Democrats and instead given to Republicans to make them appear more effective right before an election, then they can demonstrate that millions of Americans went without federal support for purely political reasons.

And of course this is also all possibly tied together with why those US Attorneys were fired. According to Wikipedia: Congressional investigations have focused on whether the Department of Justice and the White House were using the U.S. Attorney positions for political advantage. Allegations are that some of the attorneys were targeted for dismissal to impede investigations of Republican politicians or that some were targeted for their failure to initiate investigations that would damage Democratic politicians or hamper Democratic-leaning voters.

See how neatly everything ties together? I bet the Democrats in Congress will notice that as well.