AZ BlueMeanie

The Blue Meanie is an Arizona citizen who wishes, for professional reasons, to remain anonymous when blogging about politics. Armed with a deep knowledge of the law, politics and public policy, as well as pen filled with all the colors stolen from Pepperland, the Blue Meanie’s mission is to pursue and prosecute the hypocrites, liars, and fools of politics and the media – which, in practical terms, is nearly all of them. Don’t even try to unmask him or he’ll seal you in a music-proof bubble and rendition you to Pepperland for a good face-stomping.

First Monday in October

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The "first Monday in October" marks the first day of the United States Supreme Court's new Term. The first case, starting at 10 a.m., grows out of challenges by health care providers in California to the state’s several moves to cut reimbursements for providing medical care for the poor and the disabled. … Read more

The Fire Next Time: The Euro Financial Crisis

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Most media outlets do not do "economics" reporting. They do stock market reporting. Watch the evening news and you get 15 seconds on how the stock market closed today — unless there is a major sell-off and then that merits a report a few minutes in length from their stock market reporter. It was not always thus. … Read more

Foreclosuregate Update: California AG rejects settlement

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The fiftyforty-five state settlement negotiations between the states attorneys general, the Justice Department and the banksters of Wall Street may be finally, irrevocably off the table. The whitewash settlement for mere pennies on the trillions of dollars stolen by the banksters of Wall Street in securitized mortgage fraud in the casino capitalism of … Read more

Phil Gordon: The American Jobs Act Should Be Passed Today

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From the White House Blog. Mayor of Phoenix: The American Jobs Act Should Be Passed Today: Phil Gordon, the mayor of Phoenix, Arizona believes the American Jobs Act should be passed today. "We can’t afford to keep waiting. And the politics that are being played not only in Washington, DC, but across … Read more