Entries from February 2007

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Farnsworth to Deadbeat Dads: Please Move Here; We Want Your Buisiness

Bills are dying over in the State House. Always sad when a bill dies, ain’t it?
An interesting trio of bills died for a lack of votes in Third Read yesterday, HB 2096, a bill dealing with the sale of stolen vehicles, HB 2090, a change in election law, and HB 2249, which strengthens child support [...]

Monday, February 19th, 2007

In Which I Channel Those Semi-Gossipy Political Columns

Spotted this weekend at the Dust Devil, a tournament of twelve women’s roller derby teams from all over the western states, was Rep. Pete Hershberger. This was Hershberger’s first venture into the world of flat track roller derby and came to watch what turned out to be a snoozer of a match between the Tucson [...]

Monday, February 19th, 2007

‘Cause You Ate It, Watson

In a move destined to only suprise those liberal friends of mine who insist that John McCain is really a closet Democrat who is secretly pro-choice, McCain came out yesterday for the overturning of Roe v Wade.
Long time readers will note that one of my snits is liberals who tell me that McCain is really [...]

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Aw, Come On!

Here I go, taking issue with a column written by a fan of this blog. This is bite the hand that feeds me week here on R-Cubed.
Ernesto Portillo Jr. had a column yesterday whose title says it all: Another Ibarra is not needed in Ward 1.
Portillo goes after José Ibarra’s combative style and talks to several [...]

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Silly Republican Tricks

I haven’t had a lot of time to write things on here over the last few days, but a few statements given during the Iraq debate have struck me as rather dumb.
First, we start with John Shadegg. His statement on the House floor was unremarkable.  I can sum up his and one hundred other of [...]

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Senator McCain. Mr. McCain? How Do You Vote? Anyone Seen Senator McCain?

Sen. John McCain has been talking up the surge strategy and has been willing to go onto as many talk shows as he can to show how he is standing up with the president.  So, when the Senate votes today on a resolution condemning the surge strategy, we can all expect the Senator to continue [...]

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

It’s Fixed, This Time It’s For Real, Promise

Okay…I think I finally solved what I was refering to as the “flipping” problem, where this blog’s template would suddenly switch to the “default” template and y’all would see a blue and white screen.
After some back and forth with DreamHost’s tech support (who were very responsive, the Daily Star should give them a “flower”), I [...]

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Stoppage Time

Well, time has come and gone. Any bill before the State House that has not had a hearing by yesterday is gone, unless, of course, one can do a strike all to a totally unrelated bill.
The only committee still acting is the Government committee, which has a handful of immigration bills that they just have hear, [...]

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

What Is Ted Downing Up To?

One may remember that in the closing days of his term, Ted Downing was still at the capitol, requesting “bill folders” in the hopes that, one assumes, he could find someone to carry the resulting bills.
Downing is still being seen at the capitol; some think that he may still be trying to lobby for those [...]

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Giffords to Speak On War Tonight

Gabrielle Giffords is scheduled to give a five minute floor speech on the House floor tonight sometime between 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM local time.

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