Van Jones: “This is our ‘tea party’ moment – in a positive sense.”
by David Safier Yesterday, I hesitantly wrote the Occupy Wall Street protests could be the beginning of a progressive/liberal/left version of the Tea Party without the corporate financing or the behind-the-scenes Republican political manipulation. Looks like I shouldn't have been so reluctant to make the comparison. Advertisement E.J. Dionne has a column today, Can the … Read more
AIRC Update: Chair Colleen Mathis’ Latest ‘Compromise’ Map
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The congressional map under discussion this morning is not yet online, but here is a screen shot. Chair Colleen Mathis wants this map adopted TODAY. Her fellow commissioners want time to study and analyze it. UPDATE: The map is now online (.pdf file). http://www.azredistricting.org/Maps/pubmaps/100311/Map_as_of_100211/Cong-Map_as_of_100211.pdf Some of the notable changes: the population centers of … Read more
In other Supreme Court news…
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It looks like Congress is finally willing to take action on the ethically challenged Justice Clarence Thomas. It's about damn time! Joan McCarter reports at Daily Kos: Twenty House Democrats call for investigation of Justice Thomas: Justice Clarence Thomas has been under ongoing scrutiny by activists and members of Congress for what appear … Read more
First Monday in October
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The "first Monday in October" marks the first day of the United States Supreme Court's new Term. The first case, starting at 10 a.m., grows out of challenges by health care providers in California to the state’s several moves to cut reimbursements for providing medical care for the poor and the disabled. … Read more
The Fire Next Time: The Euro Financial Crisis
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Most media outlets do not do "economics" reporting. They do stock market reporting. Watch the evening news and you get 15 seconds on how the stock market closed today — unless there is a major sell-off and then that merits a report a few minutes in length from their stock market reporter. It was not always thus. … Read more
Foreclosuregate Update: California AG rejects settlement
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The fiftyforty-five state settlement negotiations between the states attorneys general, the Justice Department and the banksters of Wall Street may be finally, irrevocably off the table. The whitewash settlement for mere pennies on the trillions of dollars stolen by the banksters of Wall Street in securitized mortgage fraud in the casino capitalism of … Read more
Phil Gordon: The American Jobs Act Should Be Passed Today
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From the White House Blog. Mayor of Phoenix: The American Jobs Act Should Be Passed Today: Phil Gordon, the mayor of Phoenix, Arizona believes the American Jobs Act should be passed today. "We can’t afford to keep waiting. And the politics that are being played not only in Washington, DC, but across … Read more
