AZ BlueMeanie Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Ah, and he thought that by resigning from the Senate he could avoid the Senate Ethics Committee from holding him accountable. Senate ethics committee: Ensign violated federal laws – The Washington Post: The Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday declared that it has “substantial and credible evidence” that former senator John Ensign broke … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This segment of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell from Tuesday's program features an interview with Ezra Klein of the Washington Post discussing the Tea-Publican proposal for a Balanced Budget Amendment Plus. I say Plus, because this lame-brain proposal contains elements beyond the Balanced Budget Amendment on which Republicans ran for office … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Catholic Church's single-minded obsession with abortion politics since 1973 led to a revival of a conservative movement within the church that in the past decade or so led the church to involve itself in secular politics. Some bishops have been so bold as to go so far as to tell parishioners … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A group of Republicans in the House and Senate are proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would allow a vote by two-thirds of the states' legislatures to override any federal law they did not agree with, i.e., Sen. John C. Calhoun's Doctrine of Nullification, rejected and discredited since the end of … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sen. John McCain previously was an advocate against inhumane treatment of prisoners. McCain successfully included an anti-torture amendment to the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (commonly referred to as the Amendment on (1) the Army Field Manual and (2) Cruel, Inhumane, Degrading Treatment, amendment #1977 and also known as the McCain Amendment … Read more