Democratic Deputy Whip Gets a Tongue Lashing on Impeachment
An interesting debate on impeachment sums up the cock-eyed view of the issue from the belt-way Democrats in Congress. In a heated exchange Thursday with liberal radio host Ed Schultz, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the deputy Democratic whip, said the party, which dramatically swept into power last year, was more focused on "other priorities". … Read more
Mitchell crosses party line on tax plan. Again.
Link: Mitchell votes against House tax relief package. Harry Mitchell has just proven himself to be conclusively uninterested in middle class tax relief. He justified his support for making permanent Bush’s massive estate and capital gains tax giveaways to the wealthy by pointing out that some crumbs may fall into middle-class citizens’ pockets. Now he … Read more
Which Half Are You?
The title of this post won’t make any sense until the end of this video:
A Tucson and Phoenix Municipal Election Yawn
Snoozers. That is the consensus regarding the municipal election this year. There is really very little learn from these races other than how deeply voters seem not to give a crap. Here in Tucson we rang up a whoppingly pathetic, though not unprecedented, 26% turnout. Sad. But the Phoenix run-offs generated a mind-bogglingly low 22% … Read more
The Arizona Delegation’s Vote on Cheney’s Impeachment Resolution
Link: Final Vote Results for Roll Call 1037. A ‘YES‘ vote on the ‘motion to table’ (vote 1037) was a vote to permanently dispose of the resolution without action: in other words, not to even consider or debate the high crimes and misdemeanors committed in our executive office by our Vice President. A "NO" vote … Read more
Arpaio’s Fiscal Irresponsibility
Link: Sheriff Arpaio is more than $1 mil over OT budget. Sheriff Joe "Most Spend-Thrifty Sheriff in America" Arpaio is about $1.3 million dollars over-budget for officer over time for the year – just 4 months into the fiscal year! He’s on track to be more than $6.8 million dollars over-budget just for over time … Read more
Wilenchik’s New Times Grand Jury: a Networked Journalism Project
UPDATE: I’ve now made the materials released thus far by Judge Baca in the New Times affair available online to anyone who is interested in viewing them: GJDocuments1.pdf GJDocuments2.pdf GJDocuments3.pdf GJDocuments4.pdf GJDocuments5.pdf GJDocuments6.pdf GJDocuments7.pdf GJDocuments8.pdf GJDocuments9.pdf BacaTranscripts.pdf A preliminary review of the documents reveals that Judge Baca released all documents related to the legal tussle … Read more
