GOP Gamesmanship on Taxes and Deficits
July 21, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The GOP's "Gimmicks-R-Us" shop that crafted a sunset provision into the Bush tax cuts to get around using the reconciliation process to double the national debt in eight years is coming back to bite them at the end of this year. An expiration of a law is not the same as enacting
Income Inequality in America
July 21, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Daily Kos has begun a new series on income inequality in America. Here are the highlights from the first post. The rich get richer… The Nation's recent six-author collection on inequality in America provides a good beginning – only a beginning – for a comprehensive debate to and fro about inequality, and,
Elena Kagan approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
July 20, 2010
Posted AzBlueMeanie: The Senate Judiciary Committee largely voted along party lines, 13-6, to send the nomination of Elena Kagan to the full Senate for consideration this month or in early August. Kagan nomination approved by Senate judiciary panel: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who previously voted for President Obama's nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, was again
Unemployment Extension Bill Comes to a Vote Tuesday
July 20, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Obama on Monday rightfully called out Republicans for their perverse electoral strategy of preventing America's economic recovery to blame the slow progress of recovery on Democrats and to argue for a return to Bush/Cheney policies, the very policies that created this economic catastrophe. From the White House blog President Obama Pushes
Republicans just can’t quit Bush
July 20, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It appears that both Democrats and Republicans want this election to be a referendum on the policies of George W. Bush. Steve Benen writes at the The Washington Monthly: GOP JUST CAN'T QUIT BUSH…. The notion that Democrats would gain traction this year by tying Republican candidates to George W. Bush's failed
From Voodoo Economics to The Tax Fairy
July 20, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Steve Benen at the The Washington Monthly weighs in on the failure of faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics: TAX FAIRY WATCH…. Roll Call had a fascinating headline today, following Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) appearance on CNN over the weekend. The headline read: "McConnell Blasts Deficit Spending, Urges Extension
Dr. McCain-love
July 19, 2010
by David Safier I still can't get over McCain's debate line about "these wonderful missiles" made by Raytheon. These wonderful missiles. How can you say something like that? Dr. McCain-love, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Missile. The irony is, McCain, who refuses to bring "pork" of any kind to Arizona,
Arizona Democratic Party files Clean Elections complaint against Payday Paton
July 19, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Arizona Democratic Party: PAYDAY PATON USES SENATE CAMPAIGN FUND AS PERSONAL SLUSH FUND PHOENIX – Former payday lending lobbyist and CD8 Republican primary candidate Jonathan Paton is unethically funding his congressional race with money from his state senate campaign, according to a complaint filed today by the Arizona
