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.

Sen. Christopher Dodd is open to torture prosecutions

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senator Christopher Dodd is the son of Thomas Dodd, who served as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunals after World War II. Thomas Dodd's cross-examination of Hermann Göring provided the centerpiece of the trials. In 2007, Senator Dodd published "Letters From Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest For Justice." Amazon.com You … Read more

Steele capitulates, cedes power to his critics at RNC

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Moonie Times has yet another EXCLUSIVE: Steele yields powers to foes in RNC – Washington Times: Capitulating to critics on the Republican National Committee, embattled Republican Party Chairman Michael S. Steele has signed a secret pact agreeing to controls and restraints on how he spends hundreds of millions of dollars in … Read more

The media conflates conservative criticism of President Obama delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have been noticing over the past several weeks that the media has been conflating the criticism from a small number of very vocal anti-choice conservative Catholics, who are opposed to President Obama delivering the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, as representing the opinion of the broader Catholic community. … Read more

A Mushrooming Pension Fund Scandal

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Mortgage bubble bursts… the financial markets collapse… investment banks are bailed out with taxpayer funds… Bernie Madoff… criminal investigations into TARP recipients… and now a mushrooming New York pension fund scandal that is going national. Last Friday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that his office was issuing more than 100 … Read more

GOP Pizza Party: “New” GOP same as the “Old” GOP

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The GOP establishment's National Council for a New America held its first "listening session" last Saturday in a pizza parlor in Alexandria, Virginia. (See earlier post GOP Launches Second Rebranding In a Year) A wealthy D.C. suburb? Not venturing beyond the Beltway bubble? Baby steps, I guess. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, … Read more