Political Calendar: Week of January 23, 2022
Send notices of your events to blogforarizona@gmail.com. Editor’s Note: Due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and CDC recommendations for social distancing, events are being cancelled or postponed to later dates. We are doing our best to update the calendar, but you should check with event organizers prior to attending any event to confirm the status. … Read more
First Trump White House Documents Reveal A ‘Smoking Gun’ of Seditious Conspiracy (Updated)
CNN reports, House January 6 committee now has all the White House records Trump tried to block: The House select committee investigating January 6 has received all 700-plus pages from the National Archives that former President Donald Trump had tried to block the panel from receiving. A spokesperson for the National Archives told CNN, “Yesterday … Read more
More Than 1,200 DOJ Alumni Urge AG Merrick Garland ‘To Preserve The Public Trust By Holding Culpable Leaders To Account As Soon As Possible’
Update to AG Merrick Garland Fails To Reassure His Critics That The DOJ Is Actively Investigating The January 6 Coup Plotters. In a little noted (and hard to find) move last week, “Over a thousand alumni of the Justice Department––who served under Democratic and Republican administrations––on Friday came out in support of the department’s Jan. … Read more
Russia Expert Predicts Major War In Europe Over Russian Aggression In Ukraine
For the first time since the end of World War II in 1945, there may be a major war in Europe over Russian agression in Ukraine. Russia got away with the “annexation”of Crimea in 2014, and Russian-backed militias in the Donbas region of Ukraine waging a civil war in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. Earlier this … Read more
GOP is Dead-set on Trump’s Crusade to Scrap Our Democracy
2001 has passed into 2002. The first mid-term election of the Biden-Harris administration looms ever closer, and it appears that the Democrats in Washington and throughout the nation are living up to Will Rogers’ description when he said, “I belong to no organized political party; I am a Democrat.” In 2022, this is no longer … Read more
The End of Build Back Better is a Gut Punch to Kids and Poor Families
The failure to pass President Biden’s social spending and climate bill is a massive blow to the middle class and the environment. But the consequences, and in particular the continued lack of federally mandated paid family leave, as well as the lack of an extension of the enhanced child tax credit, are especially dire for … Read more
Are We Better Off Than We Were Last Year? You Bet!
By most measures the Biden/Harris Administration has had a successful first year. That does not mean that they accomplished all their goals. They did not. However, after their first year in office, many objective observers can point out that the Biden/Harris Administration has outperformed the mediocrity and embarrassment that was the Trump/Pence team. After the … Read more
