About that McCain idea for an individual health insurance mandate
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Advertisement President Obama barely barely had completed his signature on the health care reform bill before a collection of Republican (and one Democrat) state attorneys general filed a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the Act on a specious "commerce clause" theory. Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard refused to go along stating … Read more
AZ Dems call on GOP CD 8 candidates to renounce Tea Party in light of violence, threats, racism
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Arizona Democratic Party: CD 8 candidates: Will you renounce Tea Party in light of violence, threats, racism? TUCSON — In the next 48 hours, southern Arizona will play host to a McCain-Palin reunion and a Tea Party event featuring one of Congress' most inflammatory Republicans, Tom Tancredo, who … Read more
NY Times carries photo of Giffords, vandalism. The Star? Nothing.
by David Safier The NY Times ran a story today, After Health Vote, Threats on Democrats. The only photos related to the vandalism in the online piece (I don't have the paper itself) are the most evocative photo taken of the vandalism anywhere in the country, the flag behind broken glass at Giffords' Tucson office, … Read more
McCain: Palin’s “reload” and her cross hairs are “the language that we should be using”
by David Safier John McCain is proud of Sarah Palin. He thinks her statement, "Don't Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!" is fine. Likewise the cross hairs on the map to "target" Democrats. This was on NBC. The interviewer, Ann Curry, seemed perplexed, almost angry. McCain was his genial, patronizing old self. Here are a few excerpts. … Read more
Sen. Russell Pearce: “Daddy, he said mean things to me!”
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sen. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa) likes to demonstrate his manliness and what a "tough guy" he is by writing legislation to arm to the teeth every man, woman and child in Arizona so they can serve in a vigilante militia to round up anyone guilty of appearing Latino in public and deporting them … Read more
“Hell no you can’t!” – “Yes, we can”
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When I listened to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) deliver his closing argument on Sunday evening, I knew immediately that it was a mistake. Boehner's cadence call for "no" from his fellow Republicans and his visibly angry tirade "hell no you can't!" forever fixed in the mind of the public the … Read more
This is not your father’s GOP
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Legend has it that as he put down his pen Johnson told an aide, referring to the Democratic Party, "We have lost the South for a generation." President Johnson was fully cognizant of the fact that Democrats … Read more
