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The business community tells Tea-Publicans ‘Enough! Raise the federal debt ceiling’
July 13, 2011
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
Tea-Publican Tyranny in Wisconsin: Real Democrats crush Tea-Publican ‘fake’ Democrats
July 13, 2011
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
Best line in the Klein gun’s-laser-at-your-chest story
July 13, 2011
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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
Makes sense to me
July 13, 2011
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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
Obama campaign’s first quarterly FEC financial disclosure report: a record $86 million
July 13, 2011
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
CA-36 Special Election: Janice Hahn retains seat for Dems
July 13, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Los Angeles Times reports today that Janice Hahn defeats Craig Huey, wins House seat: In a hard-fought special congressional election marked by sharp divisions in ideology and even sharper personal attacks, Democrat Janice Hahn defeated underdog Republican Craig Huey on Tuesday. Unofficial election night returns showed Hahn won 54.6% to 45.4%. … Read more
Just substitute an AZ Republican’s name
July 12, 2011
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by David Safier Here's an ad running in Wisconsin against Randy Hopper, one of the state legislators facing recall. It's simple, it's effective, and with a few changes, it would work as an ad against most Arizona Republican legislators. Add to that, it's honest. What a concept!
AZ legislators have tender sensibilities. Who knew?
July 12, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Last week, EJ Montini of the Arizona Republic wrote a column that pointed out the track record of the Arizona legislature in regards to children – pull out all the stops to "protect" them…until they are born. At that point, the Republicans in the legislature assume a rather … Read more
