Arizona: Barack Obama

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If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had followed my advice after the election last November, Joe Lieberman (the party of me! - CT) would have found himself stripped of any committee chairmanships and his Senate office would have been reassigned to the janitor's closet of the Hart Office Building. The janitors deserve better digs.

Of course, in the ways of the Senate today, Joe Lieberman paid no price for his holding the "50 Democrats plus Joe" Senate hostage for two years to his constant threat to caucus with the Republicans and give them control of the Senate; his bad-mouthing of Barack Obama during the presidential campaign; speaking at the Republican National Convention; and campaigning on behalf of his warmongering buddy, Sen.

It’s been less than 11 month since he was elected to his fifth-consecutive term in office, but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is already soliciting more funds for another campaign.
In a letter Arpaio sent to supporters last week, the sheriff painstakingly lays out the vast left-wing conspiracy working against him - name dropping Rev. Al Sharpton, President Barack Obama, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and ACORN along with a few media outlets - and says he’s in need of financial support to fight these forces.
To reiterate the threat Sharpton poses (he’s visited Phoenix twice this year ...

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The right-wing has exhibited a disturbing trend towards a new era of McCarthyism in recent years. But their latest craziness is religious bigotry and fear mongering against Muslim American citizens.

In the mind of right-wing conspiracy theory loving religious bigots, Muslim Americans are all spies for Islamo-fascism (a term fabricated by the right-wing and of no actual significance) and Islamic sleeper-cell terrorists who are conspiring to "Islamize" a "Christian" America. Seriously. I kid you not.

A quartet of Republican Congressmen, including Arizona's own Reps. Trent Franks and John Shadegg, convened a press conference this week to demand that the House Sergeant at Arms investigate the organization Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), because this advocacy organization does what every other advocacy organization does, but they do it while being Muslim.

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Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is a freshman congressman representing Florida's eighth congressional district. He caused a sensation in late September with this speech about "the Republican Health Plan: (1) Don't get sick; (2) and if you do get sick... (3) DIE QUICKLY."

Republicans howled that Grayson called them out for their obstruction of health care reform and demanded an apology. Unlike his conservative Democratic colleagues who are easily intimidated and too readily appease Republicans, Grayson did not "validate" Republicans' feelings or apologize for speaking out of turn. Rather, he said "I apologize to the dead and their families," holding up this