Posts tagged Alaska

• 15 Sep

  Episode: TPMtv

  TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: The Palin Factor

  Sunday Show Roundup: The Palin FactorYour Daily Politics Video Blog: People certainly are incredibly jazzed about Sarah Palin. That tour de force ABC interview, the prolific earmark record, and of course all those "Bridge to Nowhere" lies. The Palin Factor rolls on!

• 10 Sep

  Episode: TPMtv

  TPMtv: Bridge to Reality

  Bridge to RealityYour Daily Poltics Video Blog: Sarah Palin hasn't stopped selling her bogus "Bridge to Nowhere" claim. But at least now it looks like the media has stopped buying.

• 09 Sep

  Episode: TPMtv

  TPMtv: Bridge of Lies

  Bridge of LiesYour Daily Politics Video Blog: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin continues to repeat the claim that she told Congress "Thanks, but no thanks," for the notorious "Bridge to Nowhere" project. Apparently Sarah didn't get the memo: her claim has been thoroughly debunked b

• 05 Aug

  Episode: TPMtv

  TPMtv: Ted Stevens Biker Force!

  Ted Stevens Biker Force!Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Nothing says "not guilty" like dozens of leather-clad bikers. So it was a good thing that a large group of motorcyclists were on hand at the Anchorage airport yesterday to meet Sen. Ted Stevens and escort him to his first post-indictment campai

• 30 Jul

  Episode: TPMtv

  TPMtv: Down the Tubes

  Down the TubesYour Daily Politics Video Blog: Today is a special day for Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). Not only is it his first 24 hours in ignomy as the first sitting senator in over 20 years to be indicted on federal charges, it's also the one-year anniversary of the FBI raid on his Alaska home.

• 18 Mar

  Episode: TPMtv

  TPMtv: Young Bites Back

  Young Bites BackYour Daily Politics Video Blog: For two years now, we've been chronicling Alaska Rep. Don Young's (R) efforts to be involved in every major political corruption scandal of the last decade.  And now that the political waters are rising around him back in his home state, he's gone on

• 19 Sep

  Episode: TPMtv

  TPMtv: Ted Stevens Muck Update

  Ted Stevens Muck UpdateSenator Ted Stevens (R-AK) hasn't been kicked out of the Senate yet, but he's teetering ever closer to the edge. We've been intently covering his Byzantine dance of corruption involving former Veco CEO Bill Allen, his son former Alaska State Senator Ben Stevens (R), and a newl

• 15 Aug

  Episode: TPMtv

  TPMtv: Don Young's Plot Against the Constitution

  Don Young's Plot Against the ConstitutionThere's been a system in place for some 200 odd years now of how a bill passes through congress to become a law. It's a standard enough process that Schoolhouse Rock was able to sum it all up in a 3 minute cartoon in 1975. But no matter for Rep. Don Young (R-