Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Rupert Murdoch's Watergate Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate? – Newsweek is growing larger every day — and this is before any sworn witness testimony before government committees in Britain and the U.S. Carl Bernstein said on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell last night this may be the biggest story of the … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A new paper by Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler, Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era (PDF) features this remarkable chart showing that about half of American social program beneficiaries believe that they "have not used a government social program." That's … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The business community has been warning the leadership of the Tea-Publican Congress for months now not to screw around when it comes to raising the federal debt ceiling. Most of these conversations have been in private out of public view, until now. The reason that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Tea-Publican contempt for our democratic process exemplified by running "fake" Democrats in the Democratic primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday failed. Traditional GOP voter suppression efforts in this election also failed. Real Democratic recall candidates cruise to victory over fakes: None of the six placeholder or "fake" Democratic Senate candidates pulled off … Read more

by David Safier Until now, I had a few favorite lines in the Lori Klein story. Saying about her gun, "Oh, it's so cute," was probably number one. "I just didn't have my hand on the trigger, god" ranked as number two. But it was so hard to choose. But now we have a winner. … Read more

by David Safier Blake Schritter is Chair of the Arizona Federation of College Republicans. Young Democrats of Arizona think that's a bad idea. I agree. Blake Schritter, of the "drunkenbs" tweets — yes, that's really his Twitter name — resigned from his staff position in Rep. Paul Gosar's district office after his tweeted rants were … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Obama campaign is off to a record-breaking pace in its first quarter of campaign fundraising. Obama campaign's staggering haul: $86 million raised for reelection – latimes.com: President Obama's vast campaign operation raked in $86 million for his reelection and for the Democratic Party during the last three months, breaking previous records … Read more