Link: Right Roots by ABCPac.com. The RNC has left Graf off a list of their ‘rising star’ candidates supported by their new national ABCPAC. One of the hottest races in the nation was just written off yet again by the GOP. If I were Randy, I’d be feeling a little unloved… Discover more from Blog … Read more

This week at Drinking Liberally, (Thursday, Oct. 5th, starting at 6pm at The Shanty on 4th Ave and 9th Str at the underpass) our special guest is Dr. Tom Volgy, former Mayor of Tucson and former Democratic candidate for Congress. Dr. Volgy is also a professor of political science with specialty in international affairs at … Read more

via Sunlight Network: Punch Clock Responses. If you are an employer, you want to know your employee is doing his job, not out back smoking crack, mugging some schmo, or getting jolly with a local hooker. Well, it seems that’s just about what some of our Congressmembers seem to have been up to. The Punch … Read more

Via International Herald Tribune: U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government. Boy, this is going to hurt… I’m going to have to go out to the workshop, put my hand in the vise, and saw it off with a hack saw after I type this (with one hand, so … Read more

I’m encouraged that both Pederson and Giffords are demonstrating the importance of undermining the middle- to low-income appeal of GOP tax policy by offering populist programmes of their own. Pederson has proposed the bolder plan by recommending a revenue neutral 25% cut in payroll taxes (pdf). Now if Pederson’s IT team would just make the … Read more

This post is a magnet for pre-meeting discussion and resources for our inaugural meeting of Reading Liberally on Wednesday Oct. 4th at 7:30 PM at Bookmans on Speedway and Wilmot. We will be discussing John W. Dean‘s "Conservatives without Conscience". First, it is recommended that you have read the book. It is available at booksellers … Read more

The Democratic Party released a statement today demanding that Randy Graf return any money raised for him by Speaker Dennis Hastert, on the grounds that Hastert covered up a pedophillic sex scandal involving Florida Representative Foley for a year. "The Republican leadership has admitted that Dennis Hastert knew about Foley’s disturbing and dangerous behavior for … Read more