The Truth about “Payday Paton”
June 30, 2010
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
Self-styled “truth teller” Jan Brewer is taking a beating in the media for her lie
June 30, 2010
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
Rep. John Boehner weeps for big business
June 30, 2010
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
Sen. Jon Kyl: power to the corporations
June 30, 2010
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
Sen. Jon Kyl attacks legendary civil rights lawyer and jurist, Justice Thurgood Marshall
June 29, 2010
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.
Republican Born-Again Deficit Virgins
June 29, 2010
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":
How bad will it get if GOP obstruction continues?
June 29, 2010
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
Senator obstruction, Jon Kyl, sides with the über-rich over the middle class unemployed
June 29, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Blog for Arizona has been covering Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, for months now in his never-ending war against America's unemployed middle class for the benefit of the über-rich. Sen. Kyl's Paris Hilton Amendment; Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, thinks the unemployed are just lazy; Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, obstructing unemployment benefits extension. So
