Today was potentially a great day for the American People. The Biden/Harris Administration has come to an agreement with a bipartisan group of Senators (including Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema) on the framework for a $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan. The other nine Senators that joined President Biden and Senator Sinema outside the White House were Senators Susan … Read more
In their zeal to get a Republican-only budget through the state legislature (did any of these members of the former Party of Lincoln reach out to any Democrat on the budget,) Governor, Doug Ducey and Arizona Republican state legislative leaders have made several Faustian bargains with their members in order to secure their votes for … Read more
Did you know that Monday, June 21 was designated Child Tax Credit Awareness Day by the White House? Not if you rely on our local news media here in Arizona. Apparently they don’t care if you get the money to which you are entitled if you are raising children. So here is a public service … Read more
Republicans do not know jack diddly-squat about economics. For over 40 years they have pushed the disproved and discredited economic theory of faith based supply-side “trickle down” economics. It is an article of faith among Republicans, damn all the evidence to the contrary. I have been seeing a lot of breathless news reports lately trying … Read more
Last week on both CNN and MSNBC, political guru and first Clinton Presidential Campaign Manager James Carville said, “somebody has to get a calculator” because, with razor-thin Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate, that the votes are not there for the massive infrastructure package the Biden/Harris Administration originally proposed. He also said that … Read more