‘Corporations are NOT people! Money is NOT Speech!’
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have previously posted in Los Angeles: 'corporations are not people' – amend the U.S. Constitution: Advertisement As I have explained in several posts over the years, the only way to reverse the damage done by the "Felonious Five" conservative activist judges of the U.S. Supreme Court is by amending the U.S. … Read more
Montana Supreme Court takes a defiant stand against Citizens United v. FEC
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It will be interesting to see how the Tenther "states' rights" crowd reconciles this decision with the aberrant decision of a conservative activist U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC. Lost in the Friday news dump before the long New Year's Day weekend was this decision of the Montana Supreme Court … Read more
AIRC Update: Hearing Schedule
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Theeeey're back! And these may be the last public hearings before the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission votes to approve the final "final maps" for congressional and legislative districts after receiving a voting rights analysis and sending the maps off to the Department of Justice Voting Rights Section for Voting Rights Act preclearance. … Read more
‘Survivor – GOP Presidential Primary’ debate tonight
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The ABC News-WMUR debate will be held on Saturday, January 7 at 7 p.m. MT. ABC’s Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos, who stunk up the joint the last time they moderated a debate, will moderate again, joined by WMUR anchor Josh McElveen. Maybe he can save these D.C. media villagers from themselves. … Read more
Bundgaard Goes, But Not Quietly
Posted by Michael Bryan Color me shocked. Seriously: shocked. Senator Abusive douche-bag Scott Bundgaard has resigned. I was sure that the fix was in for Bundgaard, but apparently he got the word during the lunch break just before he was to testify that the votes were actually lining up – both on the committee and in the … Read more
Arpaio Redefines Chutzpah in Response to the DOJ’s Finding Letter
Posted by Micheal Bryan Sheriff Arpaio responded to the DOJ's Civil Rights Division by the deadline set by AAG Thomas Perez, but he did so in a rather unusually passive aggressive fashion (see his attorney's letter [pdf link]: he's made his own discovery demands (106 of them!) and set his own deadline. He seems to … Read more
What. A. Dunce. . . . Or, “Paging Dr. Freud”
by David Safier With S. Carolina guv Nikki Haley on one side and president-wannabe Romney on the other, McCain says, "With the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around." What fun, watching the two people who still have some of their faculties intact descend on the old … Read more
