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.

Redistricting update: They’re already going to the mattresses

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by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings "Going to the mattresses" is a quote from the movie "The Godfather", meaning that a Mob organization was preparing for a war with a rival organization by looking for apartments for their soldiers to conduct operations from.  They would buy a number of mattresses for their people to sleep … Read more

“Bipartisanship” = Fiscal Irresponsibility

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Democrats will hold their noses today and swallow the bitter pill of Republican fiscal irresponsibility in exchange for the extension of unemployment benefits for America's unemployed, whom Republicans have been holding hostage in an insurrection by the "two perecenters" for an extension of their tax windfall. This is a shameful day in … Read more

Mitt Romney continues to demonstrate his ignorance on just about any topic

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Mitt Romney, the one-term governor (at least he completed his term) of Massachusetts, he of the individual insurance mandate RomneyCare state health insurance plan from which the individual insurance mandate of the GOP-disparaged "ObamaCare" health insurance plan borrowed heavily (individual insurance mandates originated with the GOP health insurance reform plan of the 1990s – it was … Read more

GOP to 9/11 first responders: “F#&k those guys!”

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: One of the bills filibustered last week by Senate Republicans holding America hostage for tax cuts for the "two percenters" was the James Zagroda 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, establishing a fund for long-term health care costs and economic loss suffered by 9/11 first responders — you remember them don't you? — … Read more