Election Day: Can Democracy Be Saved? Vote! Stay Involved!
via kristen_a on Flickr. If you haven’t already done so, stop reading this and go vote. Seriously. I’ll wait. This post will be here when you get back. At the Presidential level, our election has come...
View ArticleMatty Moroun’s Bridge to Nowhere
There was a lot of chatter last night about how unsuccessful millionaires and billionaires have been at buying political seats for themselves, with Linda McMahon now having spent $100M to lose two...
View Article“We are running out of angry old white men in this country”
Last we heard from the top leadership of my local Democratic Party in this blog, it was telling women at a women’s political event that they had to support 61-year old (though not particularly angry)...
View Article500,000 Uncounted Ballots in Maricopa County AZ With Elections In the Lurch
A great deal of the country breathed a sigh of relief and assumed finality and normalcy in the election after last night. And, at first, such was the case in Maricopa County, Arizona. But then it was...
View ArticleWest Gets the Recount He Wanted, Deficit Increases to 2146 Votes, Still No...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqWyzzn4-xI[/youtube] Displaying the logic that saw him “retire” from the military with a $5000 fine for torture that in effect served as a plea deal to allow...
View ArticleDiFi and the Silly Season of Senate Committee Music Chairs
A little over an hour ago, there was some rather notable news tweeted out by CNN: Intel cte’s @SenFeinstein will give up the chair and move to Judiciary, source tells @CapitolHillCNN. @SenatorReid to...
View ArticleTrailing Crist Badly in Popularity, Scott Does Sudden Reversal on Early...
Yesterday, just a few hours before Charlie Crist was set to deliver what would be damning testimony in a US Senate hearing on the 2012 voting debacle in Florida, Rick Scott appeared on CNN and...
View ArticleFlorida Republicans Just Can’t Stop Tilting Playing Field in Their Favor
Even while the Florida legislature struggles to undo the damage from the blatantly partisan changes in Florida’s voting law enacted shortly after Rick Scott’s 2010 election as governor, new evidence is...
View ArticleThe Naked and Unbound Ambition of Kyrsten Sinema
As the kerfuffle over SB-1062 dies down, politics march on here at ground zero in Arizona. The GOP runs the key Executive Branch offices such as governor and Secretary of State but, more importantly in...
View ArticlePresident Obama Declares the Threat to Crappy Sony Movies a National Emergency
President Obama just issued an Executive Order that directs Department of Treasury to impose sanctions on people who engage in “significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.” The move has been...
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