Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Hall of Fame baseball pitcher and political gadfly Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) is holding an unemployment compensation bill that also includes a number of other important measures. Republican Senate leadership (paging Jon Kyl) could shut him down anytime they want, but have failed to force Bunning to stand down. Bunning Blockade Leads … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The McMedia infatuation with John McCain continues after his Sunday appearance on Meet the Press (why doesn't NBC just rename it "Sundays With John McCain" since David Gregory has dropped all pretense of being a journalist). Today there is a heavily promoted piece at the right-leaning Politico blog. Jed Lewison reports at … Read more

Posted by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Heard/seen while spending the morning at the Capitol… – All of the Democrats and most of the Republicans in the lege are in the dark about what is going on with the budget this week – all of the talks are going on behind closed doors, and … Read more

by David Safier The Star had a choice this morning: should its headline spotlight Obama's continued smoking or his excellent health? The Star went with health over smoking: President gets upbeat health assessment Given the story's first paragraph, the headline could have mentioned Obama's smoking, his borderline high cholesterol and the tendinitis in his left … Read more

by David Safier Any sentence about the Arizona legislature that begins with this is somewhere between a denial of reality and a cry for help: Lawmakers should have the good sense to reject ideologically driven legislation . . . It's from this morning's Republic editorial about the asinine legislation to add nuclear power to the … Read more