Corporate Democrats Should Not Be Rewarded For Their Bad Faith Obstruction
Permanent musical accompaniment, A Matter of Trust, by Billy Joel (1986). Amanda Marcotte is exactly right: Centrist Dems broke a promise on infrastructure. They should not get their “bipartisan” victory now: When the two-track plan to pass President Joe Biden’s ambitious jobs and infrastructure program first emerged, many progressives understandably thought it was a trap. … Read more
Sinema Sells out to Big Pharma as Retirees are Abandoned to Pay High Prescription Prices
This past week Senator Sinema threatened to derail President Biden’s legislative agenda for lowering prescription drug prices meanwhile taking more than $750,000 in donations from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. According to an analysis by Kaiser Health News, Sinema ranks as one of Congress’s leading recipients of pharmaceutical industry donations despite her successful 2018 Senate … Read more
Arizona’s Legislative Traitors to Democracy Name Themselves
To the People of Arizona: A group of Arizona “lawmakers” have outed themselves as the enemies of democracy in an open letter packed with lies, misinformation, and insurrection. They call for a baseless, illegal, and anti-democratic overthrow of our 2020 elections, in which, it must be noted, THEY were themselves elected. If they sincerely believed … Read more
CrowdPAC To Fund A Primary Challenger To Kyrsten Sinema Launched
Yeah, that’s a thumbs down to you, princess! Update to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Is Facing A Vote Of ‘No Confidence’. They elected her to office, now she treats them with contempt. Democratic activists are following up on their recent resolution at the state committee meeting. Igor Derysh reports at Salon, Activists who helped elect Kyrsten … Read more
The ‘Terrible Two’ Are Obstructing The Biden Agenda, To What End?
Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of the Washington Post make the point that I have been making for months, Memo to centrists: Progressives aren’t your problem. Manchin and Sinema are.: In case you doubted that House progressives would stick to their strategy in the intraparty battle over President Biden’s agenda, they just reiterated their intention … Read more
COVID19 in Arizona: Where Are We Now? 18 Months Later (podcast)
Eighteen months ago the Arizona Legislature shut down due to the COVID19 pandemic and the governor’s shelter in place order. Arizonans have traveled a rocky road since then. Throughout most of the pandemic, Arizona’s government has been willing to sacrifice lives in order to hew faithfully to the right’s anti-science ideology, which dovetails neatly with … Read more
Legal Experts Outline The Case For Criminal Prosecution of Donald Trump In Georgia
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Think tank: Trump faces ‘substantial’ legal risk in Georgia case: [L]egal experts with the Brookings Institution think tank published a detailed analysis Friday of the potential criminal investigation Trump faces in Fulton County linked to his outspoken efforts to overturn the state’s election results. The 107-page report, written by seven legal analysts, … Read more
School Masks Are In: Judge Cooper Rules Republicans in the Arizona Legislature Violated the State Constitution
This is a good day for Arizona schools and public health safety in the Grand Canyon state. In a 17-page ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper ruled several state laws unconstitutional, including laws that prohibited mask mandates in schools, took away power from the Secretary of State, banned “critical race theory” in classrooms, … Read more
