Posted by AzBlueMeanie: How is it possible that Michael Steele still has a job? What does it take to get fired? Advertisement The Republican Party's national organizing body failed to report more than $7 million in debt to federal election officials this year, making it appear to be in better shape than it was as … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The GOP's "Gimmicks-R-Us" shop that crafted a sunset provision into the Bush tax cuts to get around using the reconciliation process to double the national debt in eight years is coming back to bite them at the end of this year. An expiration of a law is not the same as enacting … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Daily Kos has begun a new series on income inequality in America. Here are the highlights from the first post. The rich get richer… The Nation's recent six-author collection on inequality in America provides a good beginning – only a beginning – for a comprehensive debate to and fro about inequality, and, … Read more

Posted AzBlueMeanie: The Senate Judiciary Committee largely voted along party lines, 13-6, to send the nomination of Elena Kagan to the full Senate for consideration this month or in early August. Kagan nomination approved by Senate judiciary panel: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who previously voted for President Obama's nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, was again … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Obama on Monday rightfully called out Republicans for their perverse electoral strategy of preventing America's economic recovery to blame the slow progress of recovery on Democrats and to argue for a return to Bush/Cheney policies, the very policies that created this economic catastrophe. From the White House blog President Obama Pushes … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It appears that both Democrats and Republicans want this election to be a referendum on the policies of George W. Bush. Steve Benen writes at the The Washington Monthly: GOP JUST CAN'T QUIT BUSH…. The notion that Democrats would gain traction this year by tying Republican candidates to George W. Bush's failed … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Steve Benen at the The Washington Monthly weighs in on the failure of faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics: TAX FAIRY WATCH…. Roll Call had a fascinating headline today, following Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) appearance on CNN over the weekend. The headline read: "McConnell Blasts Deficit Spending, Urges Extension … Read more