TPMtv: May 8, 2007

[blairlukas]

thank you for this reporting, this is what the fourth estate is supposed to be doing. Keep up the good work!

[TAMARLANE]

I gave this site a poor rating.

You mean 5th estate don't you?

[blairlukas]

yep, oops...sometimes i confunse dan rather with pius XII

[ryan4230]

Don't forget to rate these videos for TPM, we must keep him on utube!!

[bman342]

"Give my chance a plan to work" ROFL! You guys are out-daily showing the Daily Show.

Voiyour: The implication is that the administration clearly knew the hanky-panky Schlozman was involved with and yanked him out because they knew there was no way he would be confirmed.

[1000orsowords]

It's been sooo long since I've seen anything, anywhere! resembling actual journalism that I am constantly a'twitter whenever I see another TPM story. Josh...you are the man! Please don't sell out! Keep up the absolutely outstanding work! You are THE example of how the mainstream media should look/work/act. No graphics, no sports, no tripe...just the facts...thanks!

[ryan4230]

That says it perfectly!!

[TAMARLANE]

1000orsowords

I'll just bet you are atwitter, you savage you.

[lance1138]

This is NOT about the USA positions. The issue here is the STAFF positions inside the Justice Department, for which the selection process is supposed to be non-partisan.

[voiyour]

I don't think its earth shattering news that an administration would put their own people in these USA positions. Every administration does that. It's a shitty deal to replace them for political reasons, which I totally believe happened in the case of the infamous 8 in Gonzogate, but all administrations want their own in key (appointed) positions. As Pelosi said, "elections have consequences."

[jimbojim68]

It's illegal.

[dejahthoris]

Well done!

[cobwebhead]

To expand on the "picture ID is a poll tax" ruling, it's been found that large numbers of poor and elderly folks do not have picture IDs (like driver's licenses) and that the $20 registration fee amounts to a poll tax. The larger point is that the picture ID requirement will really only prevent people from casting someone else's ballot. And there aren't too many cases of this...