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TPMtv: The Day in 100 Seconds

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Published a hour ago

Big Bail
Bob Reich explains why Wall Street beats out schools for the bailout bucks.
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Published 2 hours ago

Could Get Interesting ...
Seems that special prosecutor tasked with investigating various possible criminal acts in the US Attorney firing scandal has been in touch with our old pal Alberto Gonzales.
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Published 2 hours ago

More Stonage
Nixon meta-biographer Rick Perlstein passes on word ... Nixon did it "governmentally" within months of ascending to office, tapping reporters and NSC staffers suspected of being involved in leaks on the Cambodia bombing.  Indeed, I'd figure the cointelpro operation would likely figure into the...
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Published 3 hours ago

Nixon Tricksterism
As you can see, I did an interview with famed, notorious, outrageous GOP political operative Roger Stone yesterday. We posted a preview of the interview today. But my favorite moment came when he was explaining his lack of support for President Bush and particularly the element of that...
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Published 4 hours ago

Constitutional Obscurity
I thought the rumblings about Hillary being barred from serving as Secretary of State by the Constitution's Emoluments Clause was some half-baked right-wing theory on par with Obama's supposedly fake U.S. birth certificate. But apparently Congress is taking the matter seriously enough to reduce...
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Published 5 hours ago

Franken Camp: We're Ahead!
The topsy-turvy Minnesota Senate race just took another twist when the Al Franken camp announced on a conference call with reporters that it believes Franken is now ahead of Sen. Norman Coleman in the recount -- by less than two dozen votes. This is predicated on the Franken camp's methodology...
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Published 5 hours ago

TPMtv: Josh Marshall Enters... THE STONE ZONE
We recently got a chance to gab with notorious political operative Roger Stone about his history in Republican politics, looking back on the Bush years, and his visions of the future. In this first installment Stone discusses his role in the 2000 Florida recount. Much more of our interview to...
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Published 6 hours ago

Bunning?
We're still tracking down which senator put the secret hold on the nomination of Neil Barofsky as special inspector general overseeing the bailout. As we mentioned before, there are indications that the culprit is Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), and now his press secretary, who wouldn't return our...
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Published 6 hours ago

Election Central Morning Roundup
The other President holds another press conference this morning to announce he will be nominating New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as Commerce Secretary. That and the day's other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.
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Published 9 hours ago

60 Not in the Cards
The AP and most of the major networks have called the Georgia Senate race for Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss. That leaves the Democrats at least one seat and, depending on the outcome of the Minnesota recount, maybe two seats short of a filibuster-busting 60-vote majority in the Senate.
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Published 21 hours ago

Georgia Senate Results
We'll be bringing you the results from the runoff in the Georgia Senate race tonight starting at 7 ET over there on the right in the TPM Election Scoreboard. Stay tuned ...
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Published 24 hours ago