James O’Keefe to do his first post-arrest interview on Hannity on Monday.
Start your weekend right with some classic mash-ups by TPM’s Ben Craw, whose last day is today.
We review the key moments on the way toward the Health Care Reform #epicfail.
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As their event swirls toward oblivion, the organizers of the Tea Party Nation convention in Nashville have lashed out in a lengthy email at critics, backstabbing former associates and sundry other cretins, defending the convention and insisting: “We Never Did This To Be Rich And Famous”
Meg Whitman dumps and disavows supporter after video surfaces of him declaring himself “a proud racist.”
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President Obama unveils a $3.83 trillion federal budget today, with a projected deficit of $1.56 trillion. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Rather than pop the cork on the long-awaited Office of Professional Responsibility report on how the Justice Department came to legalize torture during its darkest days under George W. Bush, the department trying to let some of the fizz out slowly with well-placed leaks.
Over the weekend, Newsweek and the Washington Post reported that the final OPR report, whose release is imminent, will soften the conclusions of an earlier draft report. The final report will find that then-DOJ lawyers Jay Bybee and John Yoo exercised “poor judgment” but did not violate the standards of professional conduct.