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Congress should investigate Wall Street as it did after 1929
February 27, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Chris in Paris at Americablog raises the question Should Congress investigate Wall Street as they did after '29? Hell yes! And start sending these corrupt "masters of the universe" to jail. Chris provides the historical context: Most relevant to today, Congress has investigated the causes behind economic downturns, using the power of
The party of Beavis and Butthead
February 27, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From a recent Paul Krugman blog post What should government do? A Jindal meditation: So what did Bobby Jindal choose to ridicule in this response to Obama last night? Volcano monitoring, of course. And leaving aside the chutzpah of casting the failure of his own party’s governance as proof that government can’t
Another one bites the dust
February 26, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: After the Alaska Disasta, Sarah Palin, imploded in a super nova as John McCain's running mate, Republicans started looking around and asked "who else do we have?" Many of them, including the drug-addled mind of gas bag bloviator Rush Limbaugh, settled on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. So Jindal was primped and prodded into the
Doubting Thomas
February 26, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Our Accidental Governor, Jan Brewer, had better look over her shoulder because it appears that Maricopa County Attorney, Andrew Thomas, is still harboring fantasies about becoming Arizona's next governor. In a guest opinion that appeared in the Tucson Citizen on Tuesday, Andy laid out his agenda for leading the Republican Party out
AZ Charter school advocates, take note
February 26, 2009
by David Safier I consider myself an advocate of charter schools, but not the way they're set up here in Arizona, where it's too easy to get a charter and slip by without any accountability, and too rare for bad charters to be shut down. So I'm pleased to see there is a national movement
Continuing trouble in paradise
February 26, 2009
by David Safier Last night I posted a portion of an article from the Arizona Guardian about the Accidental Gov (I got the term from a commenter and plan to make it my own) criticizing the Republican legislators for not knowing the effects of the budget cuts they voted for. Today there's more from the
Cutman unmasked
February 26, 2009
by David Safier Lest we forget, Cutman's alter ego, Rep. Russell Pearce, has been around for awhile. The Southern Poverty Law Center just came out with an Intelligence Report — Hate in the Mainstream: Arizona Reelects Hard-Core Nativist Politician. I'm copying it here in full. I take no responsibility for any exaggerations and inaccuracies that
Trouble in paradise?
February 25, 2009
by David Safier A shocker in an Arizona Guardian email blast: Brewer criticizes GOP lawmakers BREAKING NEWS - Gov. Jan Brewer says her Republican colleagues at the Legislature should have known better when they pushed through deep budget cuts earlier this month that caused widespread job loss, crippled state health services and whacked popular education programs.Brewer on
