Entries Tagged as 'Lyndon Johnson'

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Arizona Loses a Record

Quick, who was the longest serving member of Congress? Well, up until this week, you could have proudly mentioned Carl Trumbull Hayden of Tempe. As of this week, however, the good Senator Hayden has lost that distinction to Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Hayden served a term as Sheriff of Maricopa County, then ran for Arizona’s [...]

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Trying to Make Something Out of Nothing, Leaning Hard on Yet Another Drug

We here at R-Cubed read the spin and digest it so you don’t have to.
Take this op-ed by Republican consultant and Gubernatorial confidant Chuck Coughlin. To sum up his take on the budget fiasco: it is the system’s fault (I’m trying to imagine Coughlin, Che Guevara t-shirt and birkenstocks, with his fist in the air [...]

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Heresy!

A couple of folks over at DailyKos have been pushing for Barack Obama to make a visit here in Arizona over the next few days. I’m about to tell y’all something that is going to go totally against what many of you feel about this idea.
I’d really rather he didn’t come.
Not because he wouldn’t make [...]

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Pearce to McCain: Resign!

State Rep. Russell Pearce, such a good friend of this blog, is asking Sen. John McCain to resign. McCain has missed numerous votes because of his campaign.
The Tucson Citizen editorialized about this back in March, and Talking Points Memo has pointed out that many of these votes that McCain has missed have been on the very issue [...]

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