Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In a state run by fringe lunatics, I suppose it's only appropriate that some flake is running for the U.S. Senate. Rep. Jeff Flake, that is. The former executive director of the Goldwater Institute (anyone associated with this pain-in-the-ass bad government think tank should be prohibited by law from ever holding public office), became the first … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Well, what did you expect? This is what happens when state government is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate lobbyists. Despite a bipartisan outcry last summer after three inmates escaped from a private prison near Kingman, bills to increase state oversight of for-profit corrections companies can't get a legislative hearing. Arizona private prison oversight … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On Monday, Governor Grim Reaper called a special session for the purpose of passing a so-called "jobs bill" (a modifed version of Rep. Kirk Adam's corporate welfare tax giveaway plan from last year) secretly negotiated between our lame-duck governor, our de facto governor, Sen. Russell Pearce, and House Speaker Kirk Adams (aka … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I was watching the presidential press conference this morning when Chuck Todd (NBC/MSNBC), whom I consider to be an idiot, asked the president about his fiscal commission (aka Catfood Commission), asserting that the commission reached a "majority consensus" on recommendations, so why doesn't the president's budget contain the commission's recommendations? (I am … Read more

by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Monday wasn't a "good day" at the legislature (too many bad bills *did* pass committee), but it could have been far, far worse. On the negative side – Center For Arizona Theocracy Policy bills targeting the judiciary passed committee (SB1472, SB1482, SCR1047), as did SB1466, a Lester Pearce-pushed … Read more