Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This segment of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell from Tuesday's program features an interview with Ezra Klein of the Washington Post discussing the Tea-Publican proposal for a Balanced Budget Amendment Plus. Advertisement I say Plus, because this lame-brain proposal contains elements beyond the Balanced Budget Amendment on which Republicans ran for … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Catholic Church's single-minded obsession with abortion politics since 1973 led to a revival of a conservative movement within the church that in the past decade or so led the church to involve itself in secular politics. Some bishops have been so bold as to go so far as to tell parishioners … Read more

Posted  by AzBlueMeanie: A group of Republicans in the House and Senate are proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would allow a vote by two-thirds of the states' legislatures to override any federal law they did not agree with, i.e., Sen. John C. Calhoun's Doctrine of Nullification, rejected and discredited since the end of … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sen. John McCain previously was an advocate against inhumane treatment of prisoners. McCain successfully included an anti-torture amendment to the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (commonly referred to as the Amendment on (1) the Army Field Manual and (2) Cruel, Inhumane, Degrading Treatment, amendment #1977 and also known as the McCain Amendment … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It has been awhile since I posted this graph, so it is time for a refresher course. Via Ezra Klein.  The five main causes of the budget deficit are the economic downturn (tax revenues go down), the Bush tax cuts (which quickly become the largest part of the deficit), the wars in … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The way-too-white correspondents at FAUX News Fraudcasting and their lily white viewers have something else they can freak out over: the "browning" of America. The days of white privilege are ticking down like their Countdown-to-the-Rapture clocks. It won't happen by May 21st, Evangelist Group Predicts End of World is May 21, 2011, … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Osama bin Laden is STILL dead. And President Obama's Approval Rating Hits 60 Percent, Highest in Two Years – FoxNews.com. So the way-too-white correspondents at FAUX News Fraudcasting returned to their tried and true coordinated race-baiting attacks on President Obama and the First Lady — this time for having invited rapper Common … Read more