I wish we were this organized
January 18, 2010
by David Safier I envy the conservatives' ability to think 2 or 3 steps ahead when they're trying to sell an agenda to voters. I think they stink at governing, and their ideology tends to be anywhere from wrong headed to inhumane. But man, can they put together a frontal assault to push their agenda.
“All I got was a lousy Tea Party T-shirt”
January 18, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Conservative "values voters" bitterly complained that George W. Bush paid lip service to their political interests to get their votes, but failed to deliver on anything substantive on their political agenda (other than blurring the line of separation of church and state with federal funding to faith-based organizations). Conservative "values voters" rightly
SWAG Update
January 17, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This has been a busy week for candidate announcements which, in some contests, has led to a reshuffling of the deck as candidates who were running for one office are now running for another office. Other candidates are just now filing as election season gets underway. You can play along at home
The coming week… – Legislative edition
January 17, 2010
by Craig McDermott Cross-posted from Random Musings… Normally, this is part of a longer and more comprehensive post, but since the lege is in full swing now, they'll rate their own post for a while. "For a while" will probably last until late March or early April, or until the leadership of one or the other
The two-faced “Janus” Brewer
January 16, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Last July, Arizona's Accidental Governor was cultivating an image that she was a Mother Theresa of sorts, bless the beasts and children. Governor Jan Brewer on July 1, 2009 in her veto message of the state budget: I received early this morning a fatally flawed legislative budget. The legislative budget ignores my
Editor’s Note: The trouble with trolls
January 16, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Michael Bryan requested a post to this link http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniques/ which provides an effective summary of the worst practices of blog trolls. Enjoy.
Fool’s Gold: Head Start is worthless
January 15, 2010
by David Safier Have I ever told you never to take anything from Goldwater Institute at face value? In case you missed me saying it before: Never take anything from G.I. at face value. Latest exhibit: a G.I. Daily Email from Jay Greene, who has a blog Matthew Ladner posts on regularly. Greene's email cites
What to expect in education legislation
January 15, 2010
by David Safier A reader did a whole lot of work and sent me an 8 page Word document filled with education legislation being proposed this year. I'm going to cherry pick the items I find interesting, but I'm putting the entire document online so those of you who know more about this stuff than
