Arizona: Sen. Kyl

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Rachel Maddow Show reported Wednesday evening that the Republicans who voted against the Al Franken Amendment to the defense appropriations bill are taking heated criticism from the editors of their Red State newspapers back home. 'The Rachel Maddow Show' for Wednesday, October 21:

MADDOW: Thirty Republican senators - 30 of the 40 total Republican senators we have now cast a vote recently that has even the conservative op-ed pages of the senator's local hometown papers burning bright with outrage.

It may be the sleeper political issue of the year, the vote that will launch 1,000 campaign ads, if nothing else.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I have been a resident of Tucson since the early 1960's. I have started each morning, for good or ill, by reading the Arizona Daily Star.

At one time, the Arizona Daily Star was an award winning newspaper with reporters and editors that demonstrated excellence in journalism. That newspaper has not existed for some time now.

There has been a precipitous decline in the quality of reporting and the opinion pages since Lee Enterprises purchased the newspaper. While the Arizona Daily Star still has a few good reporters and on occasion demonstrates flashes of its former self, on most days it appears to be in a race to the bottom to compete with the likes of Rupert Murdoch's yellow rag New York Post.

Posted by AzBliueMeanie:

Our own "Senator Obstruction," Jon Kyl, has voted against the bank rescue bill, the federal stimulus bill, and the Obama budget resolution designed to rescue our economy from sliding into a depression (see David Safier's post on Robert Reich). Eh, just let it go!

Has your 401(k) been decimated? Have you had to cash out your IRA to meet living expenses? Are you under water on your mortgage, or worse, in foreclosure? Have you lost your job? Are you worried about losing your job?

TOUGH! Jon Kyl doesn't care about you or the cumulative effect of millions of Americans like you on the U.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

On Thursday, Arizona's twin embarrassments "Senator Obstruction," Jon Kyl and "Senator Sore Loser," John McCain, scored a rare hat trick on MSNBC. Kyl made David Shuster's "Hypocrisy Watch" segment on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (he's a regular pick), and McCain was Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in The World" on Countdown (also a regular pick). The Rachel Maddow Show completed the hat trick with a piece about McCain who appears to be trying to wrest away the title of "Senator Obstruction" from Jon Kyl. (Chris Matthews, per usual, babbled on about his own convulted political theories on Hardball and had nothing of value to say.