Leather and Steele
March 31, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: RNC Chairman Michael Steele has put the Par-tay back in the Republican Party with questionable expenditures at a West Hollywood nightclub featuring faux-lesbians in a bondage theme. Sarah Waldman, director of special events at Voyeur, complained about media depictions of her establishment. Quoting Ms. Waldman, “we are most certainly not a strip
DCCC Video: “Health Care Reform: A Historic Victory”
March 31, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This video has a convention film feel to it.
GOP and Tea Party Agree: Abolish Social Security
March 31, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: We have already told you about GOP budget guru, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), and his "GOP Road to America's Future (Ruin)" here The GOP Road to Ruin and here Update: The GOP Road to Ruin. Ryan's plan is to privatize social security as George W. Bush proposed, and to ration Medicare until
A rare consensus that our Accidental Governor is a political opportunist
March 31, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I was cautiously optimistic this morning when I saw this headline in the Arizona Daily Star, Anti-government groups grow in number, fueled by economic, racial 'stressors', that someone had finally decided to do an exposé on our John Birch Society, Tenther, states' rights nullification, secessionist radical GOP Taliban in the Arizona Legislature
Fool’s Gold: One good education cut deserves another
March 31, 2010
by David Safier Today, Clint Bolick weighed in on education funding, poaching on Matthew Ladner's territory. And though the style is different, the malady remains the same. Bolick's opening argument is that we're spending a lower percentage in the classroom now than we did in 2000. He ends by concluding, that means we should cut
Good reporting, Good column-ing
March 31, 2010
by David Safier Here are a few wonderful moments in this morning's Star. I loved a 2 paragraph passage in Howard Fischer's article about the governor and legislators' attempts to get Arizona to join the health care lawsuit. Adams complains about the "mandate" that he later has to admit really isn't a mandate. House Speaker
The Farley Report: March 30, 2010
March 31, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD28): Oops, she did it again. Yes, Governor Jan Brewer has chosen to call her Eighth Special Session. Perhaps you may be thinking — wow — she finally decided to do the right thing and is going to reinstate KidsCare so
I take my economics straight up and coastal, thank you very much.
March 30, 2010
by David Safier B. Kalafut, an occasional commenter here, wrote this about me on his blog: Safier is on the wrong side of very many things and probably read his econ texts upside down and backwards . . . Ben, you're mostly, but not completely wrong. I used to challenge my econ profs by telling
