Long live The Scarp!
by David Safier When Daniel Scarpinato was putting out regular, and often infuriatingly comical, press releases for the failed Jonathan Paton campaign, I coined the term "Scarps" to describe the writing. "Scarps: Attack dog, logic-challenged rants written for Paton by Daniel Scarpinato." Advertisement It looks like the Scarpster is back as the House Republicans' communication … Read more
Senator Obstruction’s protege profits from selling Senate filibusters
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, has been prolific in his abuse of Senate procedure to obstruct the people's business in Congress. This Jedi master of abuse of procedure trained his former aide, Steven Duffield, in the dark side of the force. Senator Obstruction's protege is now the president of Endgame Strategies LLC, a D.C. lobbying firm … Read more
The GOP Gimmicks-R-Us Shop: The ‘Symbolic Congress’
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The "just say no" to everything Republican minority becomes the majority "symbolic Congress" today — symbolic in the sense that Tea-Publicans plan to hold a series of symbolic votes this year to not only reverse the Obama administration's legislative successes of the past two years but to repeal the entire 20th Century. … Read more
Huppenthal’s insists that we continue to mythologize American history
by David Safier Honestly, it's laughable, except that the man is our Superintendent of Education. John Huppenthal spoke yesterday about his visit to an Ethnic Studies classroom: "My, firsthand, classroom encounter clearly revealed an unbalanced, politicized and historically inaccurate view of American History being taught." Huppenthal, of course is a scholar of American history and … Read more
Huppenthal to take $15 million from TUSD if it continues to boost Hispanic academic achievement
by David Safier As usual, the cause-effect scenario in the Ethnic Studies battle is only being presented with a conservative spin on it. Horne and Huppenthal are saying, if TUSD doesn't get its act together and change or eliminate Ethnic Studies, it's in danger of losing $15 million. From that viewpoint, it sounds like the … Read more
Of course. Where else?
by David Safier The Tea Party Patriots plan to hold a "policy summit" in late February in Phoenix. The Tea Party Patriots call Phoenix, "the great southwestern city, born from the ruins of a former civilization, now the rebirth place of American culture. It will also be our opportunity to support the citizens of Arizona … Read more
Justice Scalia: Women are not entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: With the attention of the Arizona political media focused this week on the conservative assault upon the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, they may have missed this story: Justice Antonin Scalia's assault upon the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Justice Scalia is the "constitutional scholar" (sic) that the Minnesota … Read more
