<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0dc3c1d2-55c0-41de-b59a-71c5c85ee474/AD25E5F5-5252-4403-BFA9-3CA89AC3489F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html" style="font-size: 11px;">latimesblogs.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html">Did <A target="_blank" href="http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/george-w-bush">President Bush's</A> White House dispatch top officials to key battleground states in a last-ditch effort to try to help <A target="_blank" href="http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/john-mccain">John McCain's</A> presidential campaign?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html"><P>We raise the issue because the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a report detailing the extent to which the White House used the administration's stars -- and government travel dollars -- in the 2006 campaign in a failed effort to keep the Congress in Republican hands.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html"><P>The operation had Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/latimesblogs.latimes.com/img/5D09EFF1-A414-426A-8403-AFB7B8155D5E" alt="Karl Rove is singled out in congressional report on use of government funds for political work" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html">The report, issued Wednesday, noted:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html">The White House used the political affairs office to orchestrate an aggressive strategy to use <A target="_blank" href="http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20081015105434.pdf">taxpayer-funded trips to help elect Republican candidates</A> for public office. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/10/officials-polit.html"><P>In any case, the report called the situation "a gross abuse of the public trust." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AD25E5F5-5252-4403-BFA9-3CA89AC3489F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!