Schlozman on ACORN: Don’t know anything about them really.
There’s a pretty healthy dose of fibs in Bradley Schlozman’s testimony today. But this has to be one of the funniest.
Did the Associated Press hype a speech by Obama as something scary and racially-threatening?
Elizabeth Edwards compares husband John to Jesse Helms. That and other political news of the day in today’s Election Central Happy Hour Roundup.
In Bradley Schlozman’s testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee he hung most of his decision to deliver a series of pre-election ‘vote fraud’ investigations on the sign-off of Craig Donsanto, head of the Election Crimes branch of the Justice Department. But the TPMmuckraker staff dug up an email from fired US Attorney David Iglesias contained in one of those DOJ document dumps. And Iglesias provides a very different account of Donsanto’s opinion of indictments brought right before elections.
GOP Debate Update:
Rudy suggests to Wolf that he’s in favor of making English the U.S.’s official language.
But as Mayor of New York City, he was strongly against it — and even viewed such efforts as little more than an effort to “insult” and “offend” people.
GOP Debate Update:
McCain strives for his big Bill Clinton moment.
As most of you know, Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY) died Monday night while undergoing a second round of treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Thomas had been reelected for a third term in the senate only last November.
Now, a number of readers have written in to ask why it is that though the state’s governor, Dave Freudenthal, is a Democrat, he’ll be appointing a Republican to replace Thomas in the senate. The reason has to do with Wyoming’s unique law governing the appointment of senators, which we explain here.
TPM extends our condolences and best wishes to Thomas’s family, friends and supporters.
One among many reasons why NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has no future in the national Republican party.
On Monday Bloomberg weighed in on the JFK bomb plot — the one where a few Trinidadian ne’er-do-wells who didn’t understand how the jet fuel pipelines worked thought they’d blow up the whole city.
“There are lots of threats to you in the world. There’s the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can’t sit there and worry about everything. Get a life. You have a much greater danger of being hit by lightning than being struck by a terrorist.”
Today’s Must Read: Sure, diplomacy is important. But do we really need all those diplomats? The L.A. Times this morning reports that the foreign service is understaffed by 1,000 positions.