AZ Politics

If you are like me at all (and you probably are if you are reading this
blog) then you look forward to January 20th 2009 with a mixture of
great anticipation and a certain nagging dread. Anticipation that the
long dark night of two misbegotten and utterly tragic Bush terms will
be over, and dread as to who will be taking the oath on that day.

I’d like to offer you some hope: I don’t think it will be another
Republican (but then I never do, so my objectivity is questionable as
to this point). In conjunction with the Republican Congress, Bush has,
for now, exhausted the credibility of the conservative movement with
the American people. I think I have some plausible ideas about which
Democrats may be taking the oath, and it may not be anyone you expect.

Many progressive Democrats have angst about current polling that shows
the most likely Democratic candidate to be taking the noontime oath
from Justice Roberts is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Let me reassure you,
it’s not going to happen that way.

I want to appologize for the mysterious disappearance of your Drinking Liberally hosts last week. Tasha was on vaction and I was suddenly taken ill. I hope that the Drinkers who showed up made the best of it and had a great time. Perhaps someone(s) would like to volunteer as a sort of emergency reserve … Read more

Link: The Raw Story | MSNBC confirms: Outed CIA agent was working on Iran. "INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY VALERIE WILSON WAS PART OF AN OPERATION THREE YEARS AGO TRACKING THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL INTO IRAN. AND THE SOURCES ALLEGE THAT WHEN MRS. WILSON’S COVER WAS BLOWN, THE ADMINISTRATION’S ABILITY TO TRACK IRAN’S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS … Read more

I don’t usually lift articles whole, but in this case, I’m making an exception. Lieutenant Geneal William Odom is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and professor at Yale University. He was director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, … Read more

I have a modest proposal: let’s pay for a professional full-time legislature and then expect to get one. It is politically and, in many cases, ideologically difficult for our legislature to raise their own pay to a livable wage. Currently the job pays a mere 24,000 a year, plus per diem, which I understand can … Read more