Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A few weeks ago the Arizona Daily Star published a "fact check" piece on Sen. Jonathan "Payday Paton" and his lobbying activities for the payday loan industry when he was a lobbyist. The Star used the opportunity to publish the specious retort from the Paton campaign from former Star reporter Daniel Scarpinato that … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Self-styled "truth teller" Jan Brewer is taking a beating in the media for being the queen of making up shit. The media just now noticed this? As I have said before, go back and review Jan Brewer's public statements when she was serving in the legislature and even as Secretary of State. She … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Keep in mind that if Republicans were to recapture the House of Representatives, this is the man who would most likely become Speaker of the House. Rep. John Boehner trivialized 8 million unemployed and the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, and he is sticking with the failed conservative philosophy of … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "Equal Justice Under Law" is enscribed on the facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building. Senator Jon Kyl is having none of it. As Dana Milbank described in Kagan may get confirmed, but Thurgood Marshall can forget it: Republicans saw trouble in this Marshall fellow. "In 2003, Ms. Kagan wrote a tribute … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: During the opening statements of the confirmation hearing for Elena Kagan on Monday, Sen. Jon Kyl and other Republicans thought it was a dandy idea to attack a legendary civil rights icon, Justice Thurgood Marshall. That's just great. Jon Kyl, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham, both lawyers, were chastised by the U.S. … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Vice President Dick Cheney famously told former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter." But only when a Republican is in the White House. When a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans suddenly become born-again deficit virgins. PERRspectives: Senator Whitehouse Blames Deficit on GOP "Debt Orgy": … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Following up on a post from earlier today, GOP filibuster of unemployment benefits extension bill blows hole in state budgets, Jon Perr provides the numbers in PERRspectives: What Washington Giveth, the States Taketh Away: By almost any measure, the $787 billion stimulus program has worked exactly as designed. The overwhelming consensus of … Read more