GOP legislators find piggy banks to break into
April 17, 2009
by David SafierIf you poke around looking into Arizona school district bank accounts, you can find that they have saved up something like $330 million, according to Republican Rep. Carl Seel. That's because districts are allowed to hold back up to 4% of their funding. Great! Seel says. Let's take it! Put that together with
Sidelight in the Election Integrity saga: Brakey innocent. Nelson “over-reached.”
April 16, 2009
by David SafierThe big election integrity story is happening in Maricopa County as we await AG Terry Goddard's statement about the counting of the RTA ballots. But today, we had a small part of the story play out in a downtown Tucson courtroom. I spent most of my day sitting outside Judge José Luis Castillo's
The “Party of Lincoln” has devolved into a Neo-Confederate “Party of Secession”
April 16, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The modern Republican Party still refers to itself as the "Party of Lincoln." Lincoln may have been one of the original founders of the Republican Party, but nothing could be further from the truth or present-day reality. If Lincoln were alive today he would immediately recognize the modern GOP as his old
GOP goes after “right wing extremists” statement
April 15, 2009
by David SafierI posted this morning about a Homeland Security warning concerning the possibility of cyber attacks from left wing extremists and violence from right wing extremists. One paragraph in the article says this: In this report, the agency warns that imposing new restrictions on firearms and returning military veterans who have difficulties assimilating back
The rotting racist underbelly of the tea party protests
April 15, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: h/t to Jill Tubman, The Rotting Racist Underbelly of the Tea Party Protests – Jack & Jill Politics: Were you wondering what happened to all the rabid, wild-eyed bigots yelling, “Kill him!” and “Terrorist” and “Socialist” carrying stuffed monkey plush dolls at the McCain-Palin rallies? It’s easy in our jubilation over Obama’s
CNN reporter exposes tea parties as GOP-organized right-wing Obama haters
April 15, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Watch and learn boys and girls, CNN reporter Susan Roesgen demonstrates how a real reporter covers this corporate Astroturf non-event. Congratulations to Roesgen for having the guts to call out these tea bag protesters as the GOP-organized group of right-wing Obama haters that they are. And she reminds viewers that the tea parties
Hey tea baggers – size really does matter
April 15, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Memo to Faux News: When you promise a phenomenon is sweeping the nation, you need to do better than boast about "hundreds" of tea baggers in Boston (h/t Daily Kos), home of the original Boston Tea Party: Let me whip out some photos you may recall from last year's election.
David Shuster has fun with tea baggers: “They need a Dick Armey”
April 15, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: SHUSTER: For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15th will be Tax Day. But in our fourth story tonight: It‘s going to be teabagging day for the right-wing and they‘re going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers
