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Questions for Martha McSally — Time to put up or shut up: do you endorse Donald Trump, or not?

June 4, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie

Our sad small town newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star, published a “puff piece” about Rep. Martha McSally (R) (the “R” stands for property of Raytheon) that reads as if it was taken directly from a McSally press release. McSally instrumental in keeping missile system in production.

I don’t know if this is just bad political reporting, or it was an editorial decision made by an editor of the Star.

The Star report entirely glosses over this part of the Raytheon town hall: “McSally also took a handful of questions from the audience at the end of the town hall, but sidestepped a question on which presidential candidate would be best in terms of protecting national security.”

Well, luckily the Arizona Republic sent a real reporter to the town hall to report the news that the Arizona Daily Star clearly does not want its Southern Arizona readers to know. McSally: Presidential race ‘like a WWF tournament’:

U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., said Thursday that she is troubled by positions taken by both fellow Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton and lamented that the presidential race has become “more like a WWF tournament than a serious discussion.”

Sorry, but no. That would be World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), of which Donald Trump is a member of its Hall of Fame. Donald Trump’s greatest WWE moments; 6 ways Donald Trump’s wrestling career previewed his campaign.

House descends into chaos over vote switching to support discrimination against LGBT community

May 19, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie

Your Tea-Publican Congress at work . . . haters gotta hate. The Hill reports Chaos in House after GOP votes down LGBT measure:

The House floor devolved into chaos and shouting on Thursday as a measure to ensure protections for members of the LGBT community narrowly failed to pass after Republican leaders urged their members to change their votes.

Initially, it appeared Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s (D-N.Y.) amendment had passed, as 217 “yes” votes piled up over 206 “no” votes when the clock ran out. The measure needed 213 votes to pass.

But it eventually failed on a 212-213 vote after a number of Republican lawmakers changed their votes from “yes” to “no” after the clock had expired.

Roll Call Vote 226: Arizona Congressional delegation voting “yes”: Gallego, Grijalva, Kirkpatrick, McSally, Sinema; voting “no”: Franks, Gosar, Schweikert; Not voting: Salmon.

The TanMan unchained, rips the GOP

April 28, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie

The TanMan, former Speaker of the House John Boehner, had a few choice words to say about the GOP now that he is no longer an elected official seeking political office. Vox.com reports, John Boehner just confirmed everything liberals suspected about the Republican Party:

Speaking at Stanford University, former House Speaker John Boehner went the full Bulworth.

“You can call me boner, beaner, jackass, happy to answer to almost anything,” he said.

Boehner called Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” and said, “I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.” He admitted he would vote for Donald Trump, if it came to it, but not for Cruz.

He repeatedly called the House Freedom Caucus — the loose group of anti-establishment conservatives who are thought to have forced him out of the speakership — “knuckleheads” and “goofballs.” [This includes most of Arizona’s GOP congressional delegation.]

“I love all these knuckleheads talking about the party of Reagan,” Boehner continued. “[Reagan] would be the most moderate Republican elected today.”

No, your new heartthrob John Kasich is not a moderate!

March 18, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie

@DonnaDiva I don't understand how you can say that. He is the only reasonable person running in the republican primary

— maureen bennett (@maureenbh) March 12, 2016

What inevitably turns up in my feed whenever I mention Kasich

If there’s one thing some liberals are big saps for, it’s the idea of forging kumbaya friendships with certain Republicans. They’re like nerdy high school kids pathetically grateful that the jocks and cheerleaders are letting them sit at their table for lunch. It’s very annoying but is an ongoing thing that will never go away so long as there are liberals yearning for whatever approbation they can get from people who scorn them. Arizona liberals are especially bad with this, since the political climate here is so demoralizing for Democrats. The hunger for “reasonable” Republicans is so strong that they’ll ascribe such characteristics to guys like Jeff Flake, mistaking his mild-manneredness for moderation, when the truth is that the now-junior Senator of Arizona holds a lot of horrifically right wing positions.

Matt Salmon announces his retirement from Congress: Let the political battle royal begin

February 27, 2016 by AZ BlueMeanie

By Craig McDermott, crossposted from Random Musings

On Thursday, Congressman Matt Salmon announced that he will not be seeking reelection to Congress in 2016.

This wasn’t a sudden move – senior Salmon staffers have been looking for, and finding, soft landing spots for weeks now, and his announcement was followed quickly by an endorsement of Andy Biggs, president of the Arizona State Senate, to be his replacement.

While the Biggs endorsement was (presumably) an attempt to preempt a primary battle for the safe R seat, there are a number of Rs looking at the race, or at least being speculated about for the race.

From AZCentral.com, written by Rebekah L. Sanders –