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Arizona: Contessa Brewer

April 9, 2009 - 05:35 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

Media and Republicans perpetuate bogus "Obama cuts military spending" meme; Sen. John McCain applauds Secretary Gates' Defense budget

By AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

If there is one enduring truth it is that Republicans lie - often and repeatedly - as a regular element of their coordinated media strategy. They get away with it only because a complicit news media never holds them accountable for their lies.

Case in point: Defense Secretary Robert Gates (first appointed by President Bush) released the Department of Defense budget this week calling for a fundamental reorganization of Pentagon priorities and an overall 4% increase in defense spending (Afghanistan and Iraq are now included in the budget and the costs are no longer hidden in emergency supplemental budgets, as George W.

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March 26, 2009 - 05:56 pm
NEWS FEED: Blog for Arizona

The Party of No (New Ideas)

By AZ BlueMeanie

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Thursday was the day the big bad GOP was supposed to show up the White House by finally announcing its own economic agenda, "The Republican Road to Recovery." It was promoted heavily by Faux News and cable outlets and by conservative blogs like Politico. So what happened? The GOP failed to deliver as promised.

Here's how Mark Nickolas at politicalblog.com described it:

This afternoon, GOP House leadership called a press conference to roll-out their alternative budget. The cable news greatly hyped the event in advance. But like so much of the Republican rhetoric we get these days, it's nothing but hot air.

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