It’s that time of year.
TPM brings on a new class of interns each season. And we’re now taking applications for our Winter 2008/2009 cycle. TPM interns are probably as intimately and rapidly involved in the preparation and production of news coverage as interns at any other news organization. And that ranges from work on the news section of the front page to research for our news blogs to video editing to bylined articles. Winter cycle interns will work closely on stories relating to the presidential transition and the start of the new Congress. The application deadline is November 7th. To find out details for how to apply, click here.
Some readers requested that we re-post this withering line of questioning last year from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) of former U.S. Attorney and DOJ voting rights bamboozler Bradley Schlozman about his prosecution of ACORN workers in the Kansas City area right before the 2006 elections:
Schlozman later had to “clarify” his testimony that he had brought the case at the “direction” of the director of the Election Crimes Branch in the Public Integrity Section.
The GOP robocall campaign is in full swing now. The latest call we have identified, with the help of readers, is going out to North Carolina voters and repeats the charge that Obama denied babies medical care.
Seems like the explanation for John and Cindy McCain’s made-to-order cell phone tower ain’t quite holding up.
I don’t have anything to say beside printing the title to this blog post I just happened across: “McCain Loses Hastily Convened Fourth Presidential Debate With Lifesize Cardboard Obama.”
“I’m astounded that this issue is being trotted out again. Based on what I saw in 2004 and 2006, it’s a scare tactic.”
Who’s that speaking? And 
what’s he talking about?
That’s fired US Attorney David Iglesias talking about the news leaked today that the DOJ and FBI are opening a nationwide investigation into allegations that the community organization ACORN is somehow working to undermine the November election through fraud. For more from Iglesias and his fellow fired US Attorney Bud Cummins, don’t miss TPMMuckraker’s Zack Roth’s interview post from earlier this evening.
Iglesias got fired not long after the 2006 midterm election because he wouldn’t get off the dime and bring bogus vote fraud indictments against Democrats or time other indictments of Democrats to sway the 2006 election. In other words, he got canned for not doing what a number of his former colleagues at the DOJ are happily doing this very day.
Nor was Iglesias simpy a respected attorney with solid enough connections to swing a US Attorney appointment. He was a rising star in the New Mexico Republican party. Iglesias was the Republican nominee for Attorney General in 1998. (Not that it’s immediately relevant to this question, but Iglesias was the Navy JAG lawyer on whom Tom Cruise’s character in A Few Good Men was based.) This was that reassuring case where a political person’s partisan attachments butted up against his integrity and the latter won the day hands down. This is someone who knows this scam from the inside and whose testimony — literal and figurative — comes not in line with partisan attachments but in spite of them. Everyone should listen.
New Rasmussen polls have Obama up 6 points in Missouri and tied in Ohio. That and the day’s other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.