Second chance at 9/11 first responders bill – demand an up or down vote!
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Forty-one of the 42 Republican Senators voted against cloture on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, with one Republican, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kentucky Kansas, abstaining. Advertisement Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) stepped around a first responder asking for his support, telling him “I can’t help you.” And then … Read more
Brewing Up Lies About the State Budget
Posted by Michael Bryan Brewer caused an op-ed to be published regarding the ongoing implosion of the state budget, blaming it all on "Obamacare". It's the most mendacious bit of propaganda I've seen from the Governor's office recently, which is saying a lot. I've republished it below interspersed with my own commentary in blue italics. … Read more
Jan Brewer’s approach to balancing the state’s budget: Abdicate…responsibility
by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Sunday's Arizona Republic(-an Party press release outlet) contains an op-ed published under the Governor's name wherein she assesses the reasons for the inability of the state's elected leaders to balance Arizona's budgets. She looks at previously enacted cuts to… …the state's work force… …K-12 education funding… …University-level education funding… …prison spending… …child … Read more
Transplants save lives? Sounds like front page news to me
by David Safier This made page 20 in today's NY Times, which is fine, since it's a New York paper writing about Arizona. But for Arizona, it's a front page news story — or it should be. The argument by Brewer, et al, that the transplants denied state funds don't work has been debunked. If … Read more
Tis the Season: My Grownup Christmas List
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: One of my favorite modern era Christmas songs, "My Grownup Christmas List," by Amy Grant.
Promise kept: DADT repealed
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Today was a major victory for the Obama Administration on which much political capital has been expended: the Senate gave final approval to the (conditional) repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). Institutional discrimination against men and women proudly serving their country in the U.S. Armed Forces who happen to be gay … Read more
The DREAM shall never die
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." – Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) Some had hoped the DREAM Act might have a good chance at passing following the death of Ted Kennedy — the … Read more
