Look out! Another voter suppression player from the Justice Department is set to testify before a Senate committee tomorrow: Hans von Spakovsky. Here’s our rundown.
Swampland’s Ana Marie Cox asks Joe Klein some tough questions in a new podcast. That and other political news of the day in today’s Election Central Happy Hour Roundup.
Last week, Prince Bandar, the powerful former Saudi ambassador to the U.S., was implicated in a kickback scheme with a British defense conglomorate. Now, it appears, the money trail from London to Riyadh leads through Washington D.C.’s most corrupt bank.
Tony Snow: Indefinite detention is the very soul of democracy.
Sounds like Barney Frank and I are on the same wavelength when it comes to Mitt Romney (quote grabbed by TPM Election Central’s Eric Kleefeld) …
“The real Romney is clearly an extraordinarily ambitious man with no perceivable political principle whatsover. He is the most intellectually dishonest human being in the history of politics.”
Sounds about right.
Today’s Must Read: what’s needed to cure Iraq’s ills? Why, according to a U.S. general, yet another Iraqi surge to complement the U.S. surge.
Judiciary committees subpoena former White House counsel Harriet Miers, former Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor.
The timing has to do with emails released last night that provided even more evidence of White House involvement in the U.S. attorney firings.
Struggles of GOP fundraisers reveal that Republican confidence in Bush is in a “state of collapse.” That and other political news of the day in today’s Election Central Morning Roundup.
Al Franken is running for Senate in the state of Minnesota. And as everyone knows, the path to U.S. Senator from Minnesota goes through TPM World Headquarters. In today’s episode of TPMtv, Al makes the requisite stop by the office, and we talk with him about his potential future opponent (Sen. Norm Coleman), his highly evolved fundraising methods, and the single most adorable thing he’s ever heard said in congress …
Rudy Giuliani, when asked why there was no mention of Iraq in his speech yesterday on what he would do as President: