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by David Safier Idiot's Guides have been big over the past few years. Goldwater Institute has created one for Republican legislators, a list it calls 100 Ideas for 100 Days: Budget Solutions and Ideas for State Elected Officials . To be fair, nowhere does G.I. say Dems can't use it as well, but ...
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by David Safier I'm not always encouraged by the ed reform ideas I'm hearing, and that includes what's coming from Duncan's Dept of Ed. But here's where I see promise. The idea seems to be to encourage lots of approaches to improving education. If that's true, we have a decent chance of finding ...
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by David Safier Assistant Attorney General Vince Rabago filed suit against payday lender Quik Cash Friday. The company is one of the largest publicly traded payday lenders in the country. If anyone harbors any illusions about payday lenders acting in a consumer-friendly way, this suit should ...
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General David Petraeus
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
As I've said before, nobody does bumper sticker slogan gimmicks better than the Republican Party. They have excelled at this "simple solutions to complex problems" that you can reduce to a bumper sticker for years.
Last week the GOP's "Gimmicks-R-Us" shop came up ...
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Republican National Committee
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
This is what happens when you lie to seniors about Medicare, Johnny. They get riled up and call their Senators. Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts in plan :
Senators voted 58-42 to reject an amendment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would have stripped more ...
Congress
John McCain
Health care
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
This is what happens when you lie to seniors about Medicare, Johnny. They get riled up and call their Senators. Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts in plan :
Senators voted 58-42 to reject an amendment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would have stripped more ...
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John McCain
Health care
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Seniors advocacy groups have caught on to Senator John McCain's poison pill amendment to kill the health care reform bill in the Senate.
The Hill reports AARP, seniors groups oppose McCain amendment :
The nonpartisan AARP and two left-leaning seniors' groups on ...
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John McCain
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
To begin with, I was impressed by the sober tone and frank assessment of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan by President Obama. There was none of the jingoistic American cowboy crap for which the Bush-Cheney regime is infamous. He spoke to his audience of ...
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Barack Obama
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
President Barack Obama has been consistent with his campaign promises and his plan for Afghanistan touched upon in this op/ed from July 2008 Barack Obama - Op-Ed - My Plan for Iraq - NYTimes.com :
Ending the war [in Iraq] is essential to meeting our broader ...
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Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Iraq
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Congressional Republicans love to cite reports from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - except, of course, when the CBO report undermines the line of bullshit Republicans ae selling the American public, aided and abetted by a lazy stenographer news ...
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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Senate began debate of the health care reform bill on Moday and John McCain wasted no time in making a complete fool of himself. As Keith Olbermann noted in his intro to McCain's "remarkable performance" that "you'll have to see to believe" 'Countdown with Keith ...
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John McCain
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Nobody does bumper sticker slogan gimmicks better than the Republican Party. They have excelled at this "simple solutions to complex problems" that you can reduce to a bumper sticker for years.
The latest gimmick from the GOP's "Gimmicks-R-Us" shop comes from ...
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by David Safier I've been wrestling with this one lately. A suit has been filed to give charter schools more money to make their allocations "equal" with district schools. That raises the question: do charters get less than district schools, and if so, should the state give them more? The main ...
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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Associated Press writer Gene Johnson has this update at East Valley Tribune :
SEATTLE (AP) -- The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Four ...
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Mike Huckabee
by David Safier This is a public service announcement. The Goldwater Institute's Daily Email has announced what they think we must do to protect what we gained when the Bill of Rights was ratified. Spread the word about the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act, which could stop the federal ...
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Health care
by David Safier Here's the answer to the question, "How did the legislature come up with the $144 million figure for cutting soft capital to schools?" It comes from an email sent by LEAN Parents for Education. In order to receive federal stimulus money, all US states had to agree not to cut ...
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by David Safier Where does Brewer stand on payday loans, or repealing the law that would get rid of payday loans in Arizona? She's not sure . Remember the ballot measure that would have kept payday loans here? The one that lost big time? Brewer said she couldn’t remember how she voted on the ...
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by David Safier The good news: good charter schools can be very good. For certain parts of the student population, they can be better than public schools. The bad news: bad charter schools can be just awful. They're run by either incompetents or profiteers -- or incompetent profiteers -- and ...
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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Remember how Roger Ailes and Lee Atwater used this fearmongering ad to destroy the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign in 1988? (This was one version of the ad)
George H. W. Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, predicted that "by the time this election is ...
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Mike Huckabee
Roger Ailes
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Sarah Palin had some nice things to say about America's "Fearmonger-In-Chief" , Glenn Beck of Faux News. In an interview with right-wing Newsmax.com, Palin was asked, "Is a "dream ticket" of Palin-Beck ticket completely out of the question? " Palin-Beck Ticket? ...
