Yet again I find myself seduced by the sensible rantings of a right-wing ideologue! Greg Patterson, the Espresso Pundit, a conservative blogger here in Arizona, seldom publishes anything I agree with. Be that as it may, Greg obviously has a fine mind and knows it quite well. But it was still surprising to find a … Read more
I love self-defeating efforts at propaganda by the Right. I cherish the absolute ugliness of everything that comes out of Ann Coulter’s mouth. I love it when fuckwads like Ted Stephens get up on the hind legs and rant. I love how completely clueless, unfunny, and outright offensive The Half Hour News Hour was. I … Read more
A commenter on my agreement with Dick Cheney speculated what might be next: Reagan, Mecham, Graf? Well, I gotta say, the fact is even stranger than the speculation. In what is becoming an on-going series, the latest right wing nut job that I happen to have some small and likely transient area of bi-partisan kumbayah is Grover "Drown It In The Bathtub" Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Grover seems to have gotten a bug up it about government transparency, and I have to say I’m all for that. He recently published a piece in the Financial Times that I wholeheartedly applaud and support:
"The nice venture capitalists in
Silicon Valley are always looking for “the next big thing”. While we
will have to wait for another six months to learn who will make it
through the Republican and Democrat “Survivor” reality show we call
primaries we can already see the next big thing in politics bubbling up
from the 50 states: transparency. Making state budgets, contracts and
individual expenditures available to the public on the internet."
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Wow. First I agree with the Goldwater Institute, now I find myself in agreement with Dick Cheney! Of course, it is the Dick of 13 years ago, not the Dick of today, but none-the-less, I’m starting to worry about all this bi-partisanship on my part.
The main event in Arizona politics in 2008, outside of the Presidential race, of course, will be the battle for control of CD1. It seems likely the Renzi won’t be standing for re-election and CD1 will become on open-seat free-for-all. Our nominee will likely need north of a million to compete in the district, just … Read more