Great idea. Give Republicans a little budget “wiggle room”
by David SafierIn 2000, voters passed Proposition 301 that increased sales taxes to fund salary hikes for teachers and extras for the classroom. But there was another part as well: . . . it also contained a provision requiring annual increases by 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. That was included … Read more
The Mad Hater’s Tea Party
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Glenn Beck of Faux News as the Mad Hatter. (h/t driftglass at crooksandliars.com) "I have never seen a network so devoted to a wingnut cause like FOX is with their BIG coverage of the teabaggers tea party scheduled for April 15th." Fox News 'all in' on freak show coverage: They are leading the … Read more
Gallup: 61% of Americans say the income tax they pay is fair: most postive since 1956
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: (h/t to DemFromCT at Daily Kos) Views of Income Taxes Among Most Positive Since 1956 it turns out the American people have a different idea about taxes than the teabaggers: A new Gallup Poll finds 48% of Americans saying the amount of federal income taxes they pay is "about right," with 46% … Read more
Deconstructing yet another AZ Republican education talking point
by David SafierThis is the third of a series of posts going through the factoids on the Page O' Facts put together by Senate Republican Staff Policy Advisor Javan Mesnard to combat the nationally accepted assertion that Arizona is 49th in funding per student. (Here is the second in the series, if you want to … Read more
Take the online Star poll on Obama
by David SafierThe Star is running a short poll on its opinion page, mainly about Obama and the economy. Judging from the results, the Republicans have gotten word out. The results are about 60-40 against Obama. Get your voices out there!
Some half formed thoughts
by David SafierThe NY Times has an article about conflicts between our immigration laws and our need for the best techies in the world. The story is about a valuable engineer at Google who lives in Canada. He and his wife are both originally from India, but she doesn't have a visa to live here, … Read more
GOP Leadership out of touch on the economy
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have previously covered the GOP leadership insane clown posse's alternative GOP budget fiasco that first had no numbers and then called for more of the same Bush policies of the past eight years – only to be rejected by over 20% of House Republicans. Last week, we had Eric Cantor (R-VA) saying … Read more
