Obama Speech at Department of Energy: “The Time for Talk is Over. The Time for Action is Now.”
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Advertisement Highlight from the transcript The White House – Blog Post – Serious about energy independence As we are meeting, in the halls of Congress just down the street from here, there’s a debate going on about the plan I’ve proposed, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. * * * Now, I … Read more
Pearce: Budget cuts won’t cause any “real layoffs.” Ed woes “fabricated.”
by David Safier Why bother with analysis when the quotes speak for themselves? Here's Russell Pearce as quoted in the Arizona Guardian: "If you want to get rid of something, you tax it. If you want to increase something, then deregulate and untax it," he said. The budget cuts made last week will not cause … Read more
UPDATE: Obama signs SCHIP bill into law
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children, a move he called a first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans. Obama signs kids' health insurance bill "I refuse to accept that millions of our children fail to reach … Read more
Does that mean Arizona education is on life support?
by David Safier A week ago I spotlighted this comment from Jon Kavanagh about the effects of Republican's budget hatchet: "There are painful cuts but none are lethal, so it appears." I guess Kavanagh is enamored with his life-or-death analogy. In a form email he sent out Thursday to anyone who complained about the budget … Read more
Crazy As They Wanna Be
by Michael Bryan I suspect that the Arizona GOP will pull a Jonestown now that Janet has handed them the keys to the campsite. With no effective institutional opposition from Democrats to be had, there is a danger that their most ideologically intoxicated members will convince the rest to drink the Kool-aid, herding their elected … Read more
The Action Americans Need
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Barack Obama posted this op-ed in the Washington Post today Barack Obama – The Action Americans Need. Some of the highlights: What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives — action that's swift, bold and wise enough for us to climb out … Read more
Laissez-Faire Reaganomics Is Dead (1981-2009). Get Over it.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Rachel Maddow Show had the best reporting on the testimony of Harry Markopolos, because Rachel included an explanation of how we got here in the first place with Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. Transcript MADDOW: The Madoff whistleblower today, Mr. Markopolos. He said today that the SEC, the Securities and … Read more
