Senator Obama has put a hold on the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Elections Commission. The Republicans are threatening to filibuster any vote which is not up or down on all four nominees, and if there are no nominations, the FEC would have only two commissioners, and would not be able to do business.

Hans von Spakovsky is the worst person in the Bush administration with regards to suppressing minority votes, let me repeat: Hans von Spakovsky is the worst person in the Bush administration with regards to suppressing minority votes, in fact, he developed most of the voter suppression techniques used by the Bush administration and NO FEC is better than an FEC with him on it.

He is a very bad man, and he should not be allowed anywhere near any government bureaucracy, particularly one that is about free and fair elections.