The American Thinker has a survey of the upcoming 2010 Congressional elections. The author, Richard Baehr, discusses what it would take for Republicans to win back control of the House. Baehr lists all the newer Democrats in the Arizona delegation (Giffords, Mitchell, and Kirkpatrick) as vulnerable. Next year may [...]
Weird battle lines are being drawn in the payday loan wars these days. You expect the Ds and Rs to be on opposite sides here, with the Ds for ending payday loans and the Rs trying to figure out a way to keep payday loans without actually coming [...]
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The Party of No continues to engage in rank obstructionism on health care reform. Two more attempts at GOP gimmicks backfired and blew up in their face.
Senate Republicans on Saturday continued their misleading fear mongering of seniors begun by Sen. John McCain reported here Sen. John [...]
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Congressional Republicans love to cite reports from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - except, of course, when the CBO report undermines the line of bullshit Republicans ae selling the American public, aided and abetted by a lazy stenographer news media who never fact check what Republicans are [...]
Earth to U of A: if you are going to have President Robert Shelton make the rounds doing the “Republicans hate education” chant:
“sadly, we also have legislators in this state who not only fail to grasp the value of a highly-educated, technologically literate citizenry; they actively work to suppress [...]
The Senate has approved both SB 1001 and 1002. The vote went along party lines. All Republicans voted yes except Ron Gould and Carolyn Allen (who is not feeling well and was not present.)
Senate President Burns tried earlier to get a few Democrats to join him on the budget [...]
Terry Goddard vs. Dean Martin a dead heat, Arpaio most popular
From Rasmussen Reports
Monday, November 23, 2009
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the Republicans’ best shot at holding onto the Arizona governorship in 2010 against likely Democratic candidate Terry Goddard.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Arizona [...]
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Republicans have controlled the Arizona House since 1967 -- 42 years. And with a few short-lived exceptions, Republicans have controlled the Arizona Senate during the same period of time. Arizona's governors, Republicans and Democrats alike, have been hostage to Republican legislators.
With this kind of iron-fisted control over' [...]
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Nothing is ever the fault of Republicans (just ask our governor and legislators). And nobody shirks personal responsibility better than Sarah Palin. "True Americans" (white American Christian conservatives) are the true victims. And Sarah Palin in 2012 would allow conservatives to snatch "victimry" from the jaws of their defeat.
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The Special Session will begin Tuesday afternoon. My sources say that the Republicans are still short a vote and will have to play "Let's Make a Deal." Howard Fischer, however, says the GOP has the votes and maybe some Democrats to spare. Budget, Rio Nuevo on' [...]
"Feel lucky punk? Well, do ya?"While loathed by the Left, Dick Cheney remains remarkably popular among conservative Republicans. Some pundits are wondering if the former vice president might be setting his sights on the Oval Office. Even a "Draft Cheney" movement has started.With rare exception do I turn the comments off on a post. Usually to prevent someone from taking a shot at an elected official’s family member or when one group of sophomoric Republicans take shots at another group of sophomoric Republicans. The general rule here on Sonoran Alliance is if [...]
