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.

GOP Luddites reject the future of clean-energy development

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Tea-Publicans are dedicated to turning this country into a third-world banana republic ruled by a corporatocracy of über-rich plutocrats. Many of these plutocrats are tied to the coal, oil and gas industries. They understand that in the era of peak oil they stand to make huge profits from scarcity of supply … Read more

Connecting the dots for the ‘lamestream media’ on ‘Weinergate’

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Clarence&ginni I happened to catch Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on this segment of the Rachel Maddow Show on Friday, May 27 in which Maddow asked Rep. Weiner about his being in the news on Friday regarding his pressuring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (and his wife Ginni) to release his financial disclosure forms because he believes Justice Thomas has a conflict of interest with respect to the Affordable Care Act for which Justice Thomas should have to recuse himself when the appellate court cases make their way to the U.S. Supreme Court (around the 11:20 mark).

Friday, May 27th – msnbc tv – Rachel Maddow show:

MADDOW: You have been in the news today because you have been pressuring Supreme Court justices to release their financial disclosure forms. Clarence Thomas‘ form shows his wife Ginni earns salary and benefits from an anti-health reform group called Liberty Central, as well as another group Liberty Consulting.

I was reading the forms after you posted them, I felt like there was also some sort of reference maybe to Clarence Thomas himself receiving funding from Liberty consulting. What do you interpret those disclosure? What do you think they mean?

WEINER: So everyone understands it‘s required that every year, members of the Supreme Court disclose anything that might be a conflict in their background. Well, as it turned out for almost 20 years, Clarence Thomas‘ spouse was getting money not only from think tanks but think tanks that were actively trying to persuade the court to do something. Things like the Heritage Foundation and others.

And so, now, when that became public, we‘ve been paying extra attention to when these filings are reported. And here‘s the conflict. It is clear under the law that if any member of your household is going to benefit one way or another from the outcome of a case, you got to refuse yourself.

Well, Ginni Thomas is actively raising money, taking money from organizations that would benefit if the health care reform act were struck down. It‘s clear that Clarence Thomas should recuse himself. And let me just say this to make it very clear: Clarence Thomas‘ spouse can earn money anyway she wants and be free to speak.

But the question becomes: does that income to the household present a conflict for Clarence Thomas? And so, you know, we‘ve started a Web site ConflictedClarenceThomas.com, where we‘ve put all of these documents up. And it‘s pretty clear that Justice Thomas should recuse himself from health care reform debate at least because it‘s clear his household is benefitting from one side of that debate.

MADDOW: Benefitting financially because she would not be getting the income that she‘s getting from these ideological groups if it were not for her perceived influence on her husband?

WEINER: Exactly. As a matter of fact, she goes as far as to advertise that and to talk about the idea. You know, she makes fun of the idea. She says, oh, yes, I‘ve got a great deal of influence over these proceedings.

And remember something, she‘s basically—her organizations are raising money by saying if you give money to me, we‘re going to try to stop health care reform from being implemented. Well, she returns home to Justice Thomas who has to make that decision and probably in less than a year.

So, we‘re pressuring him to recuse himself. To me, it‘s a pretty clear case to the law that he should.

MADDOW: And, of course, there‘s no way to force him to do it except by shame.

WEINER: That‘s right.

G.E.: Solar power may be cheaper than fossil fuels in 3-5 years

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I posted about Germany announcing earlier this week that it wants to retire its nuclear power plants and is embarking upon an "Apollo Project" to produce its energy from renewable resources as quickly as possible. This led to a reader exchange about the cost-benefit analysis of renewable energy versus "traditional" carbon-based energy … Read more

The Tea-Publican Hostage Strategy Takes Shape

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Tea-Publican Congressional leadership went to the White House on Wednesday to meet with the president to discuss the pending federal debt ceiling "crisis" — a manufactured crisis entirely of the Tea-Publican's making in order to take America hostage, once again, for their ransom demands to kill Medicare as we know it … Read more