Harry Reid forces Bush's hand on the FEC: Von Spakovsky withdrew his nomination today

Earlier this week, at the Maria Leavey Breakfast with Harry Reid, I asked the Majority Leader about the FEC:

JOE SUDBAY (Americablog.com): Hi I'm Joe Sudbay from Americablog, based here in DC. And I'm interested in the issue of presidential nominations particularly the FEC and what will happen with that. We saw last week that Bush withdrew David Mason who was quoted in the Washington Post earlier this year, saying that John McCain was basically breaking the law. So what do you foresee in general with presidential nominations going forward this session and particularly with the FEC.

REID: I've had private discussions with Bolten, Josh Bolten. I've had many things public in nature, in fact most publicly, we've exchanged a number of letters back and forth. Here's where we are now. We have three Democrats that we are happy to have on the Federal Election Commission. They have three Republicans they're happy to have on the Federal Election Commission. We will not let one of them be approved. His name is Von Splotsky or something like that. So they're going to have to make a decision, they're going to have to replace him or there will be no FEC. And they need it worse than we do.

Well, Harry Reid won.

Today, Hans Von Spakovsky withdrew his nomination.