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Rick Perry: Social Security and Medicare are Unconstitutional
August 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The secessionist Governor Goodhair, Rick Perry (R-TX) has never been accused of being a bright man. He makes his predecessor George W. Bush appear almost cerebral. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that when he pontificates about constitutional law, a subject which he knows absolutely nothing about, he gets
Pearce Recall: Tom Cattey withdraws, endorses Jerry Lewis
August 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: And then there were two… Independent Tom Cattey has suspended his campaign and has endorsed Republican challenger Jerry Lewis in the Pearce Recall election. Mesa minister Cattey drops out of Pearce recall election Cattey, a registered independent with no political experience, said he never intended to split the vote in the race.
Rick Perry’s dishonest jobs claim
August 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Washington Independent has a take down of the right-wing noise machine's dishonest talking point about Governor Rick Perry's Texas job growth. Perry touts misleading job growth stats at gathering for state legislatures: Gov. Rick Perry delivered his signature anti-Washington, states’ rights rhetoric to a packed theater at the National Conference for
1st presentation of The Gatewoods
August 12, 2011
by David Safier Yesterday, I proposed playing the Henry Gatewood/Republican Debate drinking game. Gatewood, as regular readers of BfA know, is the crooked banker in the 1939 western, “Stagecoach,” who said, in one steady stream of bloviation: “‘America for Americans! The government must not interfere with business! Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something shocking!”
Texas Observer: Rick Perry’s Army of God
August 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The radical religious right Christian Reconstructionism and Dominionism movements have a prophet to lead them to their end-times Rapture: Governor Rick Perry of Texas. The Texas Observer has this disturbing must read report by Forrest Wilder in its August issue, Rick Perry's Army of God: A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants
I’m speaking at Sunday’s Drinking Liberally
August 12, 2011
by David Safier This Sunday, 8/14, I'll be the speaker at Drinking Liberally at The Shanty. The topic: Ominous trends in Arizona education. For those of you who haven't attended before, attendance is free, the company is congenial and drinking is optional. People begin gathering at 6pm, and the talk begins at 7. The Shanty
The crap I read in The Arizona Republic
August 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have previously posted about The Arizona Republic's long and sordid history of anti-unionism. The anti-unionism of the Arizona Republic. Today the newspaper continues this practice with an unsigned editorial opinion about the lessons from the Wisconsin recall election. Battle is over in Wis., And the unions lost. It reads as if
Unserious, and Unfit to Govern
August 12, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: FAUX News Fraudcasting hosted the third episode of "Survivor – GOP Presidential Primary" debate last night from Ames, Iowa. There was so much crazy to be had, where to begin? It really can be boiled down to a single question that was posed to the candidates asking them: "Would you raise your
