Henry Fountain Ashurst’s “cold clammy hand of consistency” at it again, to wit:
Barack Obama is fully responsible for an economic downturn that started before he was president, and bank bailouts that happened under the previous administration and supported by his opponent in last year’s election are his fault too.
Jan Brewer has absolutely nothing to do [...]
Since there is no funding source written into proposition 200, the people that have been bankrolling it are, of course, going to be supportive of the future sales tax, property tax and impact fee increases that will be necessary to fund it, right?
I mean, it would only be the right thing to do.
I have always loved stories about Henry Fountain Ashurst. Ashurst was one of the pair of senators elected when Arizona first became a state. By the 1930’s, he had risen to the be Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In that role, he became the point person on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s so-called “court packing” plan. [...]
I heard the news that John McCain has gone ahead and filed the initial paperwork to run for yet another term in the US Senate in 2010. By the way, should he be re-elected and serve out his term, that would be thirty years in the Senate, edging out Henry Fountain Ashurst’s 29 years, but [...]
Early last month, State Republican Chair Randy Pullen sent out a press release on the eve of President Bush’s visit to Yuma warning Democrats not to oppose the President’s stance on the border. Of course, Democrats were probably closer to Bush on the issue than Pullen himself was.
The press release, sent on April 5th, contained this paragraph:
Just [...]
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