Discussion: GOP-Controlled AZ Legislature Moves To Change Rules For Replacing McCain

John McCain can now join Mark Twain to say: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”

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Wow.

I know that all political parties try to jigger the rules to favor themselves, but this is really.really.blatant. Doesn’t the Arizona Constitution ban ex post facto laws, and given that they are setting the dates in a way that puts the appointment power into effect immediately, doesn’t this qualify as an ex post facto law?

Besides that, shouldn’t this sort of thing be in the constitution precisely so that politicians can’t play these kinds of silly games?

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After his diagnosis of abdominal mesothelioma (which he survived thanks to state of the art care), evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould got that pleasure, too.

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Hey Arizona readers, call your representatives and tell them how offended you are by their crass actions taking advantage an ill American hero.

They’re like cockroaches. when you shine a light on them, they scatter.

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Typical Reactionary Party, changing the rules in the middle of the game.

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Did the guy who said it wasn’t about McCain keep a straight face? Such a weird coincidence this became an emergency issue now.