A surprising rebuke

Did Michael Barone really say that?

Lawmaker's Intervention in Law Enforcement Crosses Line
The emerging scandal surrounding the dismissals of eight former U.S. attorney should signify to American voters the depth, breadth, and permeation of corruptio in the Bush administration
When a U.S. senator (to wit, Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican) feels free to call a prosecutor at home and hang up on him for resisting political pressure in the course of executing his prosecutorial duties, the line between politics and law enforcement has been so thoroughly violated that it no longer exists.
As was revealed in Tuesday's congressional hearings on the scandal, David Iglesias described the phone call from Domenici as follows:
"He wanted to know if the [indictments] would be filed before November. ... I gave an answer to the effect of I didn't think so. ... He said, "I'm very sorry to hear that," and the line went dead, the telephone line went dead. I thought to myself, did he just hang up on me? ... He didn't call back; I didn't call back. I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that something bad had happened, and within six weeks I got a call from [senior Justice Department official] Mike Battle saying that it was time for me to move on."
Domenici would not have made that call had either a Democrat or a law-abiding Republican been in the White House. He would not have had the temerity to throw his weight around to such an outrageous extent.
What's going on in Washington is not sufficiently removed from the routine doings of a tawdry Third World dictatorship to give any American comfort.

When normally staid, conservative lumps like Barone start sounding this shrill, something must be up!

Update
It looks like Barone really didn't say that. Somebody hacked into his web site and planted the above post.
I should have known that it would be totally out of character for a "conservative without a conscience" like Barone to suddenly be bothered by anything a Republican administration would do. Next time I hear of a conservative like Barone making sense, I'll know better than to assume that it is true.