Random Musings

... And so crappie season begins... Mitt Romney is renowned for his penchant to change his position on an issue, any issue, when he think...

Last year, this award was created as the Sunday Morning Crappie Award to recognize that week's most egregious example of political flip-...

Haven't given out one of these in a while (it seems that campaign season is a target-rich environment for those who like to point out hy...

Throughout the Bush Administration, AZ Senator Jon Kyl carried the Bush's water on Capitol Hill in many ways, but particularly in trying...

This one was easy... Early in Tuesday's meeting of the House Appropriations Committee, Republican chairman Rep. John Kavanagh opined (c...

...or maybe "National Triangulation Day" Let's be clear - the posturing and triangulating wasn't confined to Republicans (...

This one was easy... Earlier today, I wrote a post concerning the finger-pointing going on in D.C. over the spectacle of AIG giving million...

For the first time in the history of this distiguished award for spectacular political flip-floppery, the Crappie Award is going to bestowed...

Didn't have to look far this week to find the "winner" of this dubious award. In fact, the award, named after Arizona's s...

This edition of the award goes not to an individual or even a group of politicians, but instead to an entire federal Cabinet department. Fro...

This one was easy... :)) By now, most people in the Valley of the Sun have heard about how the Maricopa County Attorney successfully sought ...

OK, OK - I admit that I named this award after McCain because he was always a contender for it and his constant presence in the race for the...

Time for another edition of the award for political flip-floppery that every politician dreads even being considered for, much less receivin...

It's time for another tribute to political flip-floppery. The competition for this week's edition of this dubious yet apparently hig...

Last week was a good week in the 'ego' department... First, I open up the June 27th issue of the Arizona Capitol Times, and there, f...

This week's award doesn't go to just one person - the organization known as the Arizona Republican Party, on behalf of some of its c...

This week, George W. Bush made a serious run at another award. In May, the Bush Administration, through the Interior Department, declared t...

When I retired the "Sunday Morning Crappie Award," and created the JS McCain Memorial Crappie Award, it was with the expectation t...

Yesterday, as part of a 'funds sweep' (a move to help balance the state's budget by finding allocated but unused funds in state ...

I wasn't going to do one of these this week, but then the McCain campaign, not waiting to be reeled in, served it up with a "revers...