by David SafierYou know that Republican budget plan to sweep $210 million from city impact fees I posted about last night? You'll never guess where the idea came from. A legislative plan to balance the state budget by stripping cities of $210 million collected from developers is actually coming from the people who have been … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: h/t politicalbase.com Voters Tell Coleman To Concede Two new Minnesota polls reveal that its state's voters want former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) to concede his narrow loss to Al Franken (D), believe the election was fully fair, don't approve of his continued legal appeals, and want to be fully represented in the … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: No, I am not referring to a classic episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza gets caught with his swimsuit down. From Chris Cillizza's The Fix blog The Republican Shrinkage Problem: The new Washington Post/ABC news poll has all sorts of intriguing numbers in it but when you are looking for clues as … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The big news today for the Beltway bloviators and media villagers is that Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced that the Republican Party has abandoned moderate Republicans like him for the Club for Growth (Grover Norquist) conservatives. "There ought to be a rebellion, there ought to be an uprising" against these Club for … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison has accused the Bush administration of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account. The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that … Read more