As many of you know, the 3rd annual Netroots Nation conference (formerly YearlyKos) gets underway this afternoon in Austin, Texas. And TPM is going to be there in force bringing you live coverage on the blog and in video. We’ve already got a lot of interviews lined up over the next four days — Nancy Pelosi, Don Siegelman, Darcy Burner, Wes Clark and others. But if there are others there — politicians, bloggers, candidates, activists — who you think we should interview for TPMtv, let us know now. Send us an email with the subject heading “Interview” to our comments email address at the upper right.
Ashcroft at Committee Hearing: My inability to distinguish between what happened and what I’ve been told may make my testimony unreliable.
Same convention, different name. Last summer TPMtv was on the scene and video reporting from the 2nd annual Yearly Kos Convention in Chicago, IL. It’s that time of year again, but this time for the first time it’s called the Netroots Nation Convention and it’s in Austin, Texas. In today’s episode of TPMtv we preview our coverage of the big event …
High-res version at Veracifier.com.
Just as I eventually decided not to ask Michael Bloomberg to buy me my own private island in the Caribbean, Mitt Romney has now decided not to ask voters to donate money to help repay him the $45 million he loaned to his own failed campaign.
They say that John McCain doesn’t know a lot about economics. Not having a ready grasp of the interaction between a weakening dollar and oil futures or the rippling effect of the credit crunch. But if that’s true, where does he come up with innovative big think like this?
In response to the worsening economic situation, he’s got a new plan: extend his bogus gas tax holiday a few more months.
Greetings from Austin.
The TPM Media crew landed mid-afternoon, and we got right to work, recording interviews that we’ll be posting later tonight and tomorrow morning.
We watched the sun set over Texas Hill Country with retired Gen. Wesley Clark, in his top-floor hotel suite, and discussed Afghanistan. We met Jeff Merkley, the speaker of the Oregon House, who’s giving Republican Sen. Gordon Smith a run for his money. We were blown away by Debbie Cook, the striking and irreverent lawyer, environmental activist, and mayor of Huntington Beach who is challenging Rep. Dana “Panties on the Head” Rohrabacher in the CA-46.
We’re at the Convention Center now, where DNC Chairman Howard Dean is about to give the keynote address.
More soon.
McCain: Obama an extremist and possibly a socialist. Check out this video at about 2:30 from the end of the clip.
Also note the portion about McCain’s changed position on the Bush tax cuts in which he just lied through his teeth about his own record. He never gets called on this sort of stuff.
If you just say up is down people don’t know what to make of it.
A voter initiative to rename a San Francisco sewage plant in “honor” of George W. Bush has been certified for the November ballot. That and other political news in today’s Election Central Morning Roundup.
I got a few minutes to speak with DNC Chairman Howard Dean after his keynote address at Netroots Nation. It was late last night, and we were both pretty tired, so ignore my rambling, arm- waving question. I was asking Dean about his role as in some ways the founder of what has become known as the netroots: