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.

Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou’sian’ tonight

March 6, 2011 by AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: To get you in the mood for Mardis Gras, here is Mary Chapin Carpenter singing Down At The Twist and Shout. (For a friend of mine from New Orleans who is homesick). Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans Never have drifted down a bayou stream But I heard that … Read more

The coming week: Legislative edition

March 5, 2011 by AZ BlueMeanie

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings As usual, all info gathered from the website of the Arizona Legislature, and subject to change without notice. The "highlight" of the week, if you want to call it that, came this past week when Senate President Russell Pearce announced that he was "holding" all immigration bills until the … Read more

Arizona Democratic Party unveils redistricting watchdog project

March 4, 2011 by AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Arizona Democratic Party: AZ Dems unveil redistricting watchdog project Drawing a New Arizona Project will monitor process crucial to future of state PHOENIX — The Arizona Democratic Party is launching the Drawing a New Arizona Project to monitor and protect the integrity of the redistricting process, which is … Read more

The Obama Recovery Picks Up Steam – ‘Just Say No’ Boehner Tries to Claim Credit

March 4, 2011 by AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Since Republicans took control of Congress in January they have: (1) sought to repeal — but not replace — the Affordablle Care Act which the CBO says would add more than a trillion dollars to the national debt that Tea-Publicans claim to be concerned about; (2) sought to repeal the rights of … Read more

When words lose their meaning – I do not think ‘conservative’ means what you think it means

March 4, 2011 by AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Media polling firms have for decades provided respondents with only three choices to self-identify their political beliefs: liberal, conservative and moderate. Based on this categorization, there has been remarkable stability in ideological orientation, with 20% of Americans identifying themselves as “liberal” and about 40% classifying themselves as either “moderate” or ”conservative” according … Read more