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.

Carefully Scripted Debate Answers Don’t Cut It, Part V

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Okay, enough about the Republican debate, dammit. I need to finish this series on the Democratic debate.

Which noticeably would be incomplete without something on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP as it is widely known.

From Politifact:

Clinton at the debate:

“I did say, when I was secretary of state, three years ago, that I hoped it would be the gold standard,” Clinton said. “It was just finally negotiated last week, and in looking at it, it didn’t meet my standards. My standards for more new, good jobs for Americans, for raising wages for Americans. And I want to make sure that I can look into the eyes of any middle-class American and say, ‘this will help raise your wages.’ And I concluded I could not.”

Clinton in 2012:

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No Holocaust Comparisons Until 6 Million Palestinians Perish, Okay?

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The worst sin a Palestinian sympathizer can commit, according to Zionists, is a comparison of Israel-Palestine today to 1930’s Germany. The most vitriolic attacks on Max Blumenthal for Goliath were not focused on the substance of the book, but on the titles of several chapters, most frequently one entitled “Night of Broken Glass.”

The condemnation of such comparisons typically is loaded with invective-laced outrage, but generally low on logical counter-argument. The result? Far too many won’t venture even to consider such comparisons out loud, for fear they will be ostracized for doing so.

And that’s frightening. After all, the silencing of critical voices through intimidation was one of the main ingredients in, well, you know.

Okay, so we’ve all agreed that Holocaust comparisons are inappropriate until 6 million Palestinians have perished.

Hopefully, however, it’s okay to mention developments in Israel-Palestine that are troubling. Nonetheless, I’ll break the page here, so those who feel I’m entering a forbidden zone can stop reading.

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Did I Just Waste Two Hours?

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Yes, I sat through the entire Republican debate. At the outset, I said if Bush was smart he’d come out swinging against Carson. He didn’t. He probably pissed away what ever remaining chance he had. But I digress. There were precious few moments of real impact. I did think Christie blew a big fat dog … Read more

Carefully Scripted Debate Answers Don’t Cut It, Part IV

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“Edward Snowden, hero or traitor?”

Great question to pose at a Presidential debate, it turned out.

Hillary’s answer was basically “traitor.” He could have gone through channels and had whistleblower protection, she explained. And some of the information he released “got into the wrong hands.” And he “fled to Russia.”

Wrong, wrong and wrong. Hillary’s answer was a scripted message to the national security establishment: “You have nothing to fear from a Hillary Clinton presidency. Keep those contributions coming.”

John Kiriakou at OtherWords dispenses with two of Hillary’s falsehoods:

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