Entries from September 2006

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Because It’s That Important, I Guess

Russell Pearce and Laura Knaperak are looking to call a special legislative session to discuss tearing down the 9-11 memorial. That’s right, it just can’t wait until January.
That’s not Teen Spirit, that smells like election year politics.
Why can’t this wait until January? Oh yeah, no guarantee they will both be there.
These folks in the legislature [...]

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Um, Sounds Nice. Too Bad It’s Bunk

Over on Arizona 8th, they are claiming that Gabrielle Giffords is just like Steve Huffman and dodging debates.
This is, on the face of it, silly. Giffords has agreed to appear at six debates between now and the general election. By way of comparison, Giffords appeared at her first primary debate in January, and over the [...]

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Bill Montgomery Doing His Best to Prove Why We Need to Strengthen Our Immigration Laws

Republican Attorney General Candidate Bill Montgomery has so far had a couple of lame-ass excuses for hiring illegal aliens to appear in his illegally-paid-for campaign ads. First, he claimed that he didn’t know who the production company hired. The “blame the contractor” argument will be familiar to anyone who has followed immigration cases involving Wal-Mart [...]

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Critics Complain that 9-11 Memorial Isn’t Pro-War

Len Munsil had a press conference yesterday to highlight concerns about the new 9-11 memorial at Wesley Bolin Plaza. Munsil wants to prevent there from being “political” messages.
As a guy that used to write for an old Revs fanzine used to say, “Rumpswab.”
The monument, by the way, wasn’t hatched on the 11th floor by nefarious [...]

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Cherrybell Post Office to be Named for Mo Udall

Once in a while, even this current congress can do the right thing. Today they passed HR 5857, a bill changing the name of Tucson’s main post office to honor Morris King “Mo” Udall, the greatest legislator this state has ever produced.
The bill was authored by the man that is trying hard to be a [...]

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Why So Many Republicans Suck

The other day in the debate between the two candidates in the Illinois 6th district, Republican Peter Roskam accused Democrat Tammy Duckworth of “cutting and running” in Iraq.
Let’s see what Roskam’s definition for “cutting and running” is:
In November of 2004, Major Ladda “Tammy” Duckworth was piloting a Blackhawk helicopter in Iraq when the chin bubble [...]

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Roy Warden Replies!

One of the things y’all may not realize is that every time someone posts a comment, I get it e-mailed to me. This means that a couple of funny things can happen. I get comments that have been deleted, so I get to see those comments with all of the spelling mistakes or [...]

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

More Polling Numbers

Conservative bloggers have been gloating about the new poll reported in the Arizona Daily Star this morning that shows that Gabrielle Giffords is now leading by “only” twelve points. They are noting that this is a drop from the nineteen points that she was leading by in an internal poll released by the Giffords campaign [...]

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

In Retrospect…

There has been a lot of piling on Senator George Allen. Poor guy.
It all started with his “macaca” comment that confirmed suspicions in some people’s minds about Allen’s racial views. But what if we were all wrong about this?
What if he meant to say “machaca“?
I realize that this would be the eight or ninth [...]

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

A Modest Proposal, with Appologies to Jonathan Swift

So, my brilliant mind has concieved of a solution to our state’s difficulties. It splits the difference between, say, Greg Patterson and Daniel Patterson. It is simple and elegant.
We on the left are concerned about the strain on our resources from unchecked suburban sprawl. The right is concerned about the number of illegal migrants moving [...]

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