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

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Laws and rules are for everyone else to follow. For authoritarian Republicans, anything goes. "Laws? We don't follow no stinkin' laws." IOKIYAR. This played out early this morning in Wisconsin. Talking Points Memo reports WI Assembly GOP Passes Walker Budget In Surprise Vote — Dems Chant "Shame!": The Wisconsin State Assembly has just … Read more

Russell Pearce bringing Senate Judiciary to heel

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Over the last couple of weeks, Senate President Russell Pearce and his "associates" have been thoroughly embarrassed by the failure of his Sen. Ron Gould's anti-birthright citizenship and other anti-immigrant bills to pass the Senate's Judiciary Committee. In successive weeks, SB1308, SB1309 (anti-14th Amendment/birthright citizenship) and SB1405 (turning hospitals … Read more

Redistricting update: not much to update

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By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Today, the four partisan members of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) met to interview the five Independent candidates for the final, and chair's, spot on the AIRC, but after the interviews, they chose to delay the selection until Tuesday. The meeting start a few minutes late, at approximately … Read more

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker punk’d by Bart Simpson, er, Ian Murphy

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This prank was as good as Bart Simpson's Calls To Moe's. Ian Murphy, editor-in-chief of BuffaloBeast.com, decided to find out whether it was true or not that Tea-Publican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin was simply "too busy" to take calls to negotiate with the "Wisconsin 14" Democratic senators on the lam in Illinois. So he studied and practiced … Read more