Entries from February 2009

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Bobby Jindal? Ay, Pobrecito.

The take on Bobby Jindal on these here intertubes this morning was that he came off like Kenneth the Page during his presidential response last night. Yep, that is the exact comparison many are making: Kenneth the Page. Ouch. What’s worse is the speed at which this particular meme has travelled. Take for example the [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Vox Populi?

I heard a guy on Marketplace Minute this morning call Rick Santelli’s rant on CNBC “populist.” For those who don’t know, Santelli went off on “losers” to much applause from the assembled people behind him, members of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Going off on working class people to the cheers of well heeled comodity traders, [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Farley Report #67

After the jump, the latest report from Steve Farley.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Sean “CF” Murphy on SB1158

Russell Pearce is sponsoring SB 1158, which would put citizenship requirements on presidential candidates who run in the Arizona primary.
Well, it seems that this is another attempt by Pearce to stir the anti-immigration pot. He’ll tell moderate voters that this is about limiting the number of candidates on the ballot and prevent “voter confusion” (even [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Poisoned Waters?

Despite earlier denials, Bobby Jindal is now being talked about as a possible presidential candidate in 2012. They are even calling him the “Republican Obama.” I’m wondering though if the sort of campaign waged against Barack Obama will make it hard for Jindal to sell himself to the Republican base.
I’m thinking of two lines of [...]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Quote of the Week…For Now

Andy Biggs, at a hearing of the Ways and Means Committee Yesterday, confirming all of the fears of those of us who wonder if any of the solons running our state have their heads screwed on straight:
Education does not create jobs.
By the way, the property tax cut they voted for will save the average Arizona [...]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Our Wonderful Governor Making Us Proud and Confident

The worst part about this one is that it is actually what she said.

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Even the Liberal New Republic

The New Republic has posted an article with a quick take on the 2010 US Senate race here. On the Democratic side, they mention that Janet Napolitano would have been a strong candidate but for her jumping to Homeland Security. They don’t mention any other possibility. They quote Jorge Luis Garcia as saying that he [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Latino Caucus

I attended the first meeting of the Pima County Latino Caucus meeting on Friday night. There were a lot of non-latino faces there, which could be an indication of part of the problem with latino outreach in the local party organization, or the glass could be half full and this could be because non-latinos in [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

So…What Next…

Last week in other places, I was accused of being a pawn of the developers and of being a lackey of the Eckstrom brothers. These are both things that would come as a great surprise to both SAHBA and Dan Eckstrom. So, what will I be called this week?

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