The GOP Healthcare Plan – That Was a Lie Too
March 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Jon Perr continues his analysis at perrspectives com. RIP: GOP "Repeal and Replace" of Health Care Law: A year after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, comically dire Republican predictions of an "Armageddon" which will "ruin our country" and mean "a lot of people are going to die" have
Study shows healthcare reform can’t come soon enough
March 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Jon Perr breaks down the data at perrspectives.com. One Year Later, Study Shows Health Care Reform Can't Come Soon Enough: Just in the time for this week's one year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund revealed that the new health care reform
GOP lies on the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
March 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The kid doesn't like it when you lie and he'll let you know it. Steve Benen at The Washington Monthly is correct, "they just don't care." Lying is just what Republicans do: THEY JUST DON'T CARE…. Perhaps the most exasperating aspect of health care debate was the incessant lying. An aggressive rhetoric fight over ideological
Trouble in Teabagger Land?
March 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It appears that the package of anti-immigrant bills by Arizona's de facto governor and minister of hate mongering, Sen. Russell Pearce, may be dead — for this legislative session at least. The establishment Republican Party, i.e., members of the business community and chambers of commerce finally stepped up and said "Enough is
This isn’t about the deficit, it’s about an ideological attack on government itself
March 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Bruce Bartlett, former domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan and Treasury official under George H.W. Bush, has this informative post at his blog, Grover Norquist Vetoes Both Deficit Reduction and Tax Reform: According to a report in The Hill newspaper, Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist has received assurances from Republican leaders in
Arizona Education Network asks people to email business execs to support education funding
March 23, 2011
by David Safier The Arizona Education Network (AEN) notes that a letter to legislators from Arizona business executives was a primary reason five recent anti-immigrant bills were defeated. So why shouldn't CEOs who support education do the same to stop the cuts to K-12 schools and higher ed? AEN has made it easy for you
The Farley Report – March 22, 2011
March 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD 28): Thank you to the 1,700 fellow Southern Arizonans who received CPR and first aid training from the Red Cross last Saturday as part of Gabrielle Giffords' Save A Life Saturday. What a wonderful response to a terrible tragedy —
Students to rally today against $235 million in cuts to university budgets
March 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From the Arizona Students' Association: Students to rally against $235 million in cuts to university budgets Students will rally against the proposed $235 million cuts to university budgets Wednesday, March 23 at all major university campuses. Students will ask their elected representatives to stand strong for education. The Senate’s budget proposal seeks
