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I'm not sure this is a good idea, because of the "blowback" opportunitities. Remember the chanting wingers surrounding Gore's house in election 2000? I don't think it makes sense to launch a frontal assault on people who can use the same tactics against you, except more powerfully.

Several hundred people stormed the small yard of President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, yesterday afternoon, pounding on his windows, shoving signs at others and challenging Rove to talk to them about a bill that deals with educational opportunities for immigrants.


Protesters poured out of one school bus after another, piercing an otherwise quiet, peaceful Sunday in Rove's Palisades neighborhood in Northwest, chanting, "Karl, Karl, come on out! See what the DREAM Act is all about!"

Rove obliged their first request and opened his door long enough to say, "Get off my property."

"Seems like he doesn't want to invite us in for tea," Emira Palacios quipped to the crowd.

Others chanted, "Karl Rove ain't got no soul."

The crowd then grew more aggressive, fanning around the three accessible sides of Rove's house, tracking him through the many windows, waving signs that read "Say Yes to DREAM" and pounding on the glass. At one point, Rove rushed to a window, pointed a finger and yelled something inaudible.

Shortly thereafter, sirens shot through the neighborhood and Secret Service agents and D.C. police joined the crowd on the lawn. Rove opened his door long enough to talk to an officer, and the crowd serenaded them with a stanza of "America the Beautiful."

The protest was organized by National People's Action, a coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups based in Chicago
(via WaPo)

Poor Karl. I'd be more sympathetic to him if "Get off my property" wasn't the Bush response to any question to them about how they're operating the government and running the country.

Though the "America the Beautiful" seranade is clearly good, clean fun.

We have no problem (back here, yech) with holding Rove accountable. Tactically, is this the best way? Leah the same sort of concern more globally, in her post back here today.

Readers?