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.

Tea-Publican Tyranny in Wisconsin: Real Democrats crush Tea-Publican ‘fake’ Democrats

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Tea-Publican contempt for our democratic process exemplified by running "fake" Democrats in the Democratic primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday failed. Traditional GOP voter suppression efforts in this election also failed. Real Democratic recall candidates cruise to victory over fakes: None of the six placeholder or "fake" Democratic Senate candidates pulled off … Read more

Obama campaign’s first quarterly FEC financial disclosure report: a record $86 million

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Obama campaign is off to a record-breaking pace in its first quarter of campaign fundraising. Obama campaign's staggering haul: $86 million raised for reelection – latimes.com: President Obama's vast campaign operation raked in $86 million for his reelection and for the Democratic Party during the last three months, breaking previous records … Read more

CA-36 Special Election: Janice Hahn retains seat for Dems

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Los Angeles Times reports today that Janice Hahn defeats Craig Huey, wins House seat: In a hard-fought special congressional election marked by sharp divisions in ideology and even sharper personal attacks, Democrat Janice Hahn defeated underdog Republican Craig Huey on Tuesday. Unofficial election night returns showed Hahn won 54.6% to 45.4%. … Read more

AZ legislators have tender sensibilities. Who knew?

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Last week, EJ Montini of the Arizona Republic wrote a column that pointed out the track record of the Arizona legislature in regards to children – pull out all the stops to "protect" them…until they are born. At that point, the Republicans in the legislature assume a rather … Read more

The crazy train has left the station and we are headed for a train wreck

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The crazy train has left the station with the latest GOP gambit today from the Tea-Publican leadership on the federal debt ceiling negotiations. Shorter version of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today: "F**k the Constitution! F**k my constitutional duty! The GOP's Gimmicks-R-Us shop has produced a new gimmick that will get us out … Read more