by David Safier
You gotta say, Arizona is developing a larger national reputation. We're no longer known only for our two craggy old monuments — the Grand Canyon and John McCain.
Nope. We're making headlines for being the Deadbeat Dad State — no child support — and for our worst-in-the-nation deficits. Yesterday, we made my favorite national news/blog website, Talking Points Memo.
A conservative think tank that's funded by several prominent backers of right-wing causes may bring a lawsuit over health-care reform on behalf of the governor of Arizona.
The Goldwater Institute has offered to bring the suit for free, and Gov. Jan Brewer is considering the offer, a spokeswoman for the institute told TPMmuckraker.
TPM talked about G.I.'s donors.
According to the institute's 2006 annual report, it has received significant funding from several prominent backers of conservative and pro-business causes, including the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. The Koch family, and its company, Koch Industries, has been a major funder of efforts to deny global warming, as well as of Americans For Prosperity (AFP), which ran an aggressive camapign against health-care reform.
The institute has received funding from the Bradley Foundation. That's another backer of AFP, as well as of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Federalist Society, among other big-name conservative institutions.
Other Goldwater sponsors include the DCI Group, the notorious Washington-based astroturf lobbying firm which is run by GOP consultants with ties to Karl Rove and has worked for the Burmese Junta; Greenberg Traurig, the law and lobbying firm out of which Jack Abramoff ran his operation; and Dan and Marilyn Quayle.
We're famous. Or notorious.
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My memory might be shaky on this, but hasn’t the Koch name come up around the Tea Bag movement? If so, then it’s a fair assessment to say the G.I. has taken less to “thinking” in that tank of theirs and more to “drinking”. It’s now an echo chamber of ranting, railing support of excess for the few at the expense of the many while sipping steeped brew like a bunch of little girls and their imaginary friends. Picture Ladner and Olsen in a pink dresses, elbow-length gloves, and floppy hats. :::shudders::: Some things a person should just never try visualizing…
http://washingtonindependent.com/62318/tea-party-patrons-point-new-recruits-toward-2010