Casual Observation

6 Comments

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   Phil Perspective on July 22, 2013 at 2:25 am

   They used to say “as goes California, so goes the nation,” but I think the new saying should be, “as goes Arizona, so goes the nation.

   I don’t know about that.  California Republicans became a non-entity first.  Can we root for injuries on both sides(meaning both parts of the AZ GOP) of this fight?

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     Don Durito on July 22, 2013 at 2:33 am

     One can certainly hope.

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   boran2 on July 22, 2013 at 8:53 am

   But, but, but, what happened to that whole smaller government, drowning-in-a-bathtub thing?!!  Grover must be pissed.  

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   hawesg on July 22, 2013 at 10:50 am

   I think the original was “As goes Maine…” and referred to 19th century presidential elections.

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     janicket on July 22, 2013 at 2:48 pm

     Yes, it was, according to Wikipedia:

     The phrase described Maine’s reputation as a bellwether state for presidential elections. Specifically, Maine’s September election of a governor predicted the party outcome of the November presidential election in presidential election years from 1832 (if not earlier) through 1844, in 1852, from 1860 through 1876, in 1888, from 1896 through 1908 and from 1920 through 1932.

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Maine_goes,_so_goes_the_nation

     In September 1936, Maine elected a Republican governor, and the GOP trumpeted the national implications of what they saw as an anti-FDR trend — only to see Alf Landon lose massively in November, carrying only Maine and Vermont for a grand total of eight electoral votes.

     The phrase, reworked by James Farley to “As Maine goes, so goes Vermont,” quietly retired to the dustbin of history.

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   desert rat on July 22, 2013 at 6:34 pm

   “As Arizona goes…”

   Dear god I hope not.

   We have a collection of some of the most reactionary, mean, soulless GOP legislators this side of Texas.  

   Jan is merely a long-time GOP opportunist, seizing upon the trappings of the day to get along (she miraculously turned into a deeply conservative teabagger just in time for 2010, and SB1070 was a guar-and-damn-teed way to get the white cracker vote)

    I suspect that when she saw that her political career is ending (she’s termed out as gov, and no way is she going for higher office, many skeletons in that closet) and decided that, with the fact that the US taxpayers are footing the bill, she could afford to appear human and support the Medicare Expansion.

   Especially since an initiative passed by the voters, with the force of a constitutional amendment, means that legally, the state pretty much had to do this anyway, or come up with money in-state to do the same thing.

   This, of course aroused the flying screech-monkey poo-flingers…