Posts tagged with 'gonzales'

TPMtv: 2007 Golden Duke Award Nomination Show

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, DECEMBER 19 2007 02:48 PM | PERMALINK

2007 Golden Duke Award Nomination Show

Okay, the big moment has arrived. Or at least the biggest moment till December 31st. As you know, TPM is running the First Annual Golden Duke awards, named in honor or iconic political crook Randy "Duke" Cunningham and awarded to the biggest political crooks, scoundrels and bamboozlers in six separate categories. TPM Readers sent in dozens of great nominations measuring the comparative muckliness and bamboozlism of TPM favorites like Larry Craig, Alberto Gonzales,...
TPMtv: TESTIFY!

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, NOVEMBER 22 2007 09:24 AM | PERMALINK

TESTIFY!

2007 has been a pretty big year for muck and scandal. And here at TPM we've brought you a lot of congressional testimony from some of the biggest bamboozlers, crooks and fibbers the Bush administration has to offer. So today in honor of Thanksgiving we're bringing you our ultimate mega-montage of all the lowest moments tidied up and whittled down to a compact five minutes of pure concentrated bamboozlement.
- TPMtv: Muck-O-Rama Contest Preview
TPMtv: Muck-O-Rama Contest 2007!

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, NOVEMBER 21 2007 09:36 AM | PERMALINK

TPMtv: Muck-O-Rama Contest 2007!

We're coming up to the end of the year. And here at TPM we're going to see off 2007 with a contest to recognize things like the biggest bamboozle of 2007. Biggest fib. Most abject loss of dignity in testimony before Congress. We're looking for your help on a couple fronts. What should the categories be? And most of all we need your nominations for winners. For more details and how you can participate, check out today's Holiday Muck-O-Rama episode of TPMtv.
Lieberman AG fears are the fruits of Democratic cannibalism

POSTED BY CHRIS BROUSSARD, SEPTEMBER 04 2007 10:25 AM | PERMALINK

Since Gonzales resigned on Monday, the web has been rife with speculation about his successor, much of it swirling around the possibility of a Joe Lieberman nomination. He’s qualified; before he was elected to the Senate, he was Connecticut’s Attorney General. His close relationship with President Bush had been widely publicized, his relationship with the Democratic Party is strained, and he would ace the nomination hearings. Most interestingly, his vacated Senate seat replacement would be...
Friday Cartoon

POSTED BY MIKHAELA REID, AUGUST 31 2007 01:44 PM | PERMALINK
Who is Paul Clement?

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, AUGUST 28 2007 12:19 AM | PERMALINK

The new, acting attorney general of the United States is not one you might know, but for the next 210 days (maximum), or until Bush successfully appoints a permanent replacement, he's going to be filling Gonzo's shoes. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Clement is one of the few in a long line of Bushiticians to actually win support on both sides of the aisle. Pedigreed in all the right ways, Clement went to public school in Wisconsin and made his way through Georgetown, Cambridge and...
TPMtv: June 07, 2007

POSTED BY , JUNE 07 2007 09:03 AM | PERMALINK

A Chat with Congressman Jerrold Nadler

TPMtv sits down for a talk with its congressman, Representative Jerrold Nadler (D) of New York's 8th District, about warrantless wiretapping, the politicization of the Justice Department, and that dusty old constitutional concept known as congressional oversight.
TPM TV: April 23, 2007

POSTED BY , APRIL 23 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

TPM's Gonzales Testimony Sunday Show Reaction Roundup