Goldwater report card is now out
If you believe that the Goldwater Institute understands what upholding the U.S. and Arizona Constitutions require, you'll be interested in the lobbying group's sixth annual Legislative Report Card, now out.

I couldn't care less. After all, how much credibility is earned by a process that produces Ron Gould (R-3), Jack Harper (R-4), and the retiring Karen Johnson (R-18) as the "highest-scoring" senators. The Report Card "scores Arizona legislators on 237 votes across four categories: education, constitutional government, regulation, and tax and budget." The Goldwater people say they're looking at "whether legislators, individually and collectively, fulfill their duty once in office."

Frankly, a better model for 2009 would be how often other legislators' votes differed from Gould and Harper, two of the Senate's most reliable disgraces.