Bob Lord

Bob has mostly wound down his 39-year career as a tax and business lawyer (with a 1-year interruption to run for Congress in 2008 (CD3), when he tried to unseat John Shadegg. Bob now serves as the senior advisor on tax policy for the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy Americans who believe the light taxation of America's rich is destabilizing our democracy, and as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Bob has been writing for Blog For Arizona since late 2011, concentrating mostly on federal issues, with an occasional foray into Arizona state politics.

I Think I Prefer Thucky

by

For months now, John Huppenthal has been commenting here in his own name. At first, it was noteworthy. No longer. Now, he’s just a fallen, disgraced politician. Instead of taking a hard look in the mirror and taking the steps needed to rebuild his reputation, he’s chosen to wallow in the very same conduct that exposed him for what he is, with the only exception being the removal of the alias that concealed his identity (well, sort of). What Anthony Weiner is to sexting, John Huppenthal is to blog trolling.

The reasoning here is breathtaking. Coming from Falcon9 or Thucydides, “Thucky” as he was known here, his comments were considered ignorant and offensive by BfAZ readers. When exposed as John Huppenthal using the pseudonyms Falcon9 and Thucydides, his comments were considered ignorant and offensive by the public at large. Yet he believes the same comments posted under his real name will be considered something other than ignorant and offensive.  It’s like Anthony Weiner placing his name next to his dick pics and thinking “Problem solved. Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggedy-dog.”

I’ve engaged a few times with “the real John Huppenthal” in the comment thread. But no longer.

Read more

An Open Letter to Bruce Halle

by

Dear Mr. Halle, I love Discount Tire. I’ve lived in Maricopa County 29 years and never have purchased tires anywhere else. Your training program must be sensational. I’ve never encountered a Discount Tire employee who was less than friendly, honest and helpful. On one occasion, an employee told me I’d been sold the wrong type … Read more

John McCain, Political Captive

by

I’ll keep this one short. For more substance, check out Linda Lyon’s excellent post, #BeTheMaverick, below. John McCain, by towing the party line and endorsing Trump, and now failing to retract his endorsement in the wake of Trump’s most recent tirade, has validated Trump’s despicable comments about him. Politically, McCain has quite clearly been “captured.” … Read more

On Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Down With Tyranny Readers Were the Least Surprised

by

I love it when a blogger is the first to figure something out. Especially if the blogger is someone I know.

So, hats off to Down With Tyranny, which had Debbie Wasserman-Schultz figured out EIGHT YEARS ahead of the rest of us. I knew Down With Tyranny had been posting about DWS for some time before this election cycle. So, out of curiosity, I looked into it to see just how far back it went. Here are posts from the 2008 election cycle, when Lil’ Debbie was helping head up the DCCC’s then vaunted “red-to-blue” program.

WHY IS DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ REFUSING TO HELP DEMOCRATS BEAT FAR RIGHT REPUBLICANS IN SOUTH FLORIDA? PART I (March 23, 2008):

Read more

Dallas and Baton Rouge: One Off Events or Chickens Coming Home to Roost?

by

We can condemn the killing of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge. The assailants were deranged, perhaps psychopathic. Their actions were beyond horrific. Demonize them, and nobody will argue with you.

That’s the easy part.

Then there’s the stupid part, where white people connect those violent acts to the Black Lives Matter movement, or even Black America at large. I had it whitesplained to me a few times today: “They’re really not helping their cause by killing police officers, you know?” No, morons, I didn’t know that, and for you to think that is f’ing racist. You can’t attribute the acts of two lone wolf assailants to an entire movement or an entire race. The BLM activists I converse with on Facebook did not have a hand in the killing of police in Dallas or Baton Rouge. How dare you suggest they did.

Last, there’s the tough part.

Read more