New DOJ document dump. More soon …

Late Update: Here it is.

Rep. Doolittle’s (R-CA) long time Chief of Staff, Richard Robinson, bails. Says replacement, political consultant Ron Rogers, “I consider this an opportunity to do some public service for a public servant I believe in. Whether that’s an 18-month or an 18-year assignment, I don’t know.”

If you’re interested in reading a good run-down of the Republican party’s deeply immoral campaign to suppress minority voter turnout with bogus ‘vote fraud’ allegations, read Richard Hasen’s article from Friday in Slate. All the key points, the phony American Center for Voting Rights, the front group to spread the bogus stories, the inherently ridiculousness of the claims of vote fraud, the ringleader of the scams Mark “Thor” Hearne. All the crap. It’s really enough to make you sick.

By rights, these crooks should be facing justice themselves. But, shall we say, ironically, Alberto Gonzales ended up putting the US Attorney system in the service of these hucksters, firing ones who wouldn’t play ball.

That’s the big picture.

Joe Lieberman again threatens to switch to GOP — less than a week after admitting he’d promised not to.

Today’s Must Read: Duke Cunningham gives new meaning to the phrase ‘dirty politician.’ You won’t want to miss this.

Last Friday was the fourth annual Personal Democracy Forum at Pace University in New York City. It’s an annual conference that looks at the intersection of technology and politics. And this year the focus was on integrating user-generated content in political discussions, coverage, etc. TPM’s Ben Craw and I went to see what was going on and talk to a few of the participants. And here’s part one in today’s episode of TPMtv …

(ed.note: Today’s episode includes portions of the song ‘Laura Bush’s Eyes’, available at music.podshow.com.)

Former Giuliani aide questions Rudy’s 9/11 performance. That and other political news of the day in today’s Election Central Morning Roundup.

Reports from the Middle East.

Daniel Levy gives context to the fighting in Lebanon and Jo-Ann Mort looks for some hope in Gaza while Kassam rockets fall.

Gonzales no-confidence vote might not happen for a couple more weeks.

Fox News contradicts its own reporter to falsely declare that Bush has “won” the Iraq War funding showdown with Congress.