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Too bad this fool isn’t running for the Senate
May 6, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arizona Rep. Trent Franks is among the worst excuses for a congressman ever. He was thinking of running for the Senate in 2012, but has announced that he will not run. Too bad, I would love to have this fool in the Senate race. Here is his latest foolishness. Daily Kos: Republicans just can't handle bin
Public Policy Polling: Arizona’s twin embarrassments take a hit to their approval numbers
May 6, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, has taken a hit to his approval numbers after telling a whopper of a lie about Planned Parenthood, and becoming the butt of unrelenting jokes by late-night comedy shows for his "not intended to be a factual statement" defense of his lie. This is how Kyl wil be remembered by history. Stephen Colbert's
Tea-Publican senators aid and abet the predatory banksters of Wall Street
May 6, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Tea-Publicans really hate Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP bailout money to the banksters of Wall Street, and who currently serves as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Tea-Publicans are
Arizona’s economic devastation projected to continue into 2015
May 6, 2011
Posted by AzblueMeanie: Governor Jan Brewer is already threatening Arizonans with another four years of her failed leadership less than a year into her second term, despite a clear and unambiguous provision in the Arizona Constitution, Article 5, Section 1 (Version amended by 1992 Proposition 107), which provides that "No member of the executive department
More jobs created in the previous 14 months than in the previous decade
May 6, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The above caption should be the headline that accompanies every news report about today's job report. I posted about this several times back in 2009, The Bush Years Were a Lost Decade: [T]here was zero net job growth over the past decade. Massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy failed to
Representative democracy increasingly less representative
May 5, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Is government really "too big"? Actually, it is not big enough for a representative democracy. I have previously posted that "Arizona ranks among the states with the least representation based upon per capita representation by district." Before redistricting, consider increasing the number of districts (see for chart). I have always believed that
LoL! Tea Party doesn’t want guvmint license plates
May 5, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: You know the political media in this state is lame when the New York Times comes to town and scoops them on a story (OK, some of this was kinda sorta reported buried deep in some reporting awhile back). In Arizona, Tea Party License Plate Draws Opposition From Its Honorees: When conservative
President Obama honors victims of 9/11 at Ground Zero
May 5, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From the New York Times, Obama Honors Bin Laden’s Victims at Ground Zero: President Obama laid a wreath of red, white, and blue flowers at ground zero on Thursday, honoring the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 2001 terrorist attacks and marking the death of its perpetrator, Osama bin Laden. After
