The Republican leadership of the Arizona legislature and Governor Ducey pulled a Ross and Rachel from Friends: “We were on a break!” for the past week because they did not have the votes to pass the bogus budget + flat tax proposal negotiated between the Republican leadership and the governor – excluding Democrats who represent … Read more
Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times writes, Sinema and Manchin’s Nihilistic Bipartisanship: We are in the eye of the storm of American democratic collapse. There is, outwardly, a feeling of calm. The Biden administration is competent and placid. The coronavirus emergency is receding nationally, if not internationally. Donald Trump, once the most powerful man … Read more
Our prima donna senator emerged from hiding in her chicken bunker since last Friday, speaking to reporters Tuesday in Tucson — after touring migrant facilities with the anti-immigrant Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, earlier in the day — Sinema had a short response when asked why she missed the vote on the January 6 Commission. Sinema on why she skipped … Read more
Late on Sunday night, on a Memorial Day weekend when most Americans were distracted, the Texas Lege tried to pass the most anti-democratic, Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression bill in the nation. EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder. (Texas is already the most difficult state in the country to vote, it is … Read more
My father served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater, and his brothers and cousins also served in the Navy, Army and Marines in the Pacific and European Theaters during World War II. My family was lucky. None were killed in combat, but some returned home from the war decorated combat veterans. They were … Read more