McCain camp plans end run around Arizona GOP – it’s my party and I’ll do with it what I want
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Advertisement The internecine GOP civil war is spilling out into the open again. Hotline OnCall reports McCain Camp Plans End Run Around AZ GOP Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has lost the endorsement of [AZ GOP Chairman Randy Pullen], and a behind-the-scenes feud is emerging that could put McCain at odds with GOP activists … Read more
State parks were self sustaining?
by David Safier If I'm reading it correctly, an article in the Star changes what I believed was true: that state parks need tax dollars to supplement entrance fees. According to the article, state parks had been self sustaining until the legislature raided their funding source. The parks system gets no tax money. It operates … Read more
“C Street” Stupak and Sen. McCain mislead about abortion coverage in HCRA
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Long-time member of The Family religious cult, Rep. Bart "C Street" Stupak (D-MI), has been spreading disinformation far and wide about the Health Care Reform Act in an effort to reach well beyond the Hyde Amendment which has barred federal funding for abortions since 1976. "C Street" Stupak wants to ban abortions … Read more
Update: GOP Fear Factor
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Daily Kos has some interesting updates to last week's embarrassing revelations for the GOP (they demean their own contributors). This past week's focus on the RNC's scare-the-shit-out-of-donors plan has led to a DNC ad that will be running on cable: The fallout from Republican Party contributors has already begun. Via Ben Smith … Read more
The zero-sum game of tax cuts to stimulate state economies
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: After the Lost Decade of the Bush years in which massive tax cuts for corporations and the super-wealthy produced the slowest job growth since the Great Depression and eventually collapsed under the weight of the worst recession since the Great Depression, Republican zealots are sticking to their faith based supply-side economics of … Read more
Update to The Bush Years Were a Lost Decade
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Update to a previous post The Bush Years Were a Lost Decade. MeteorBlades at Daily Kos posted More on the Lost Decade, courtesy of Cheney-Bush: Just about any way you look at it, the country got smacked around from January 2001 to January 2009. Aside from its wretched foreign policy, violations of … Read more
SWAG Update
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again to update candidate filings. The dance card is filling up quickly. You can play along at home at http://www.azsos.gov/cfs/CommitteeSearch.aspx The Pima County Board of Supervisors appointed Rep. "Don't make me angry" Frank Antenori to the LD 30 Senate seat vacated by the wannabe tin horn dictator of Tucson Sen. … Read more
