Video: Brewer blasts Obama: We will not surrender any part of Arizona
Ouch. Talk about not sugar-coating it. The ad once again demonstrates that the GOP girls have more testicular gravitas than many of the boys. It also drives home at a visceral level the difference between talking about border security in Washington and living without it in a border state. The frustration is palpable.
Via Weasel Zippers.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is calling a new border security initiative an outrage.
In a campaign video posted on YouTube Friday, Brewer stood in front of what she called newly posted signs by President Obama’s administration about the Arizona desert being an active drug and human smuggling area.
“Washington says our border is as safe as it has ever been,” Brewer said. “Does this look safe to you? What is our country coming to…we need to stand up and demand action. Washington is broken, Mr. President. Do your job. Secure our borders.”
It is rather shocking that it is so dangerous a full 80 miles into Arizona, the federal government, which is responsible for making it not dangerous there and everywhere else, posts signs that tell Americans it is a no-man’s land. Brewer is right: The signs are mea culpas, not solutions.
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This is how the end begins, not with a bang but a whimper. We will see the dissolving of the union within our lifetimes.
Darth, I must be misreading your comment. Are you (shhh) agreeing with me?
In response to another comment. See in context »Hardly. You still harbor fantasies about the country being rescued from pinko liberals by decent god-fearing pro-life conservatives. Sheer nonsense. We’re Rome, and Bush was Caligula. Kiss it all good bye.
Attaboy. I thought I read it wrong.
In response to another comment. See in context »Bill, I too disagree with Darth- Junior lacked Caligula’s sense of style. In any case, who needs a horse in the Senate when we have Imhofe?
In response to another comment. See in context »I wasn’t comparing them in terms of personalities, but in terms of imperial timeline. I have a sneaking suspicion that we’re going to end up with a “Vespasian” emerging out of the repub party in 2012 (or 2016). Some people will think that’s just splendid. But it will just end up being the last hurrah for the union.
In response to another comment. See in context »If I were a gambling man, I’d put my money on the U.S. going the way of the old USSR by 2020. Maybe 2025.
Governor Brewer is highlighting an embarrassing federal problem. President Obama has taken it personally.
The problem has existed long before, yet this president in particular seems to be actively avoiding the issue.
I find this particularly quixotic because one of the primary duties of government is to protect the inhabitants. One would think an activist president would be all over an issue like this.
Immigration is probably the one clean issue where you can see politicians’ true motivations. Liberals want to legalize the illegals to instantly make millions of new Democrats and bury the Republicans once and for all. The pro-business Republicans want the cheap labor. Both groups endanger the American people and flout the rule of law on, as you say, the most basic function of government: control the border. I would use that as litmus test. Whether you are a Dem or GOPer, if you do not stand for sealing the border before anything else, you are unfit for office. After all, if you can’t protect the country, any other position you may have on any other issue is academic.
In response to another comment. See in context »Re your second sentence: do you actually believe that? If so, why on Earth do you think that the Dems would cheat like that (and I haven’t heard any amnesty plan, not even the most extreme, that would automatically grant illegals citizenship, and voting status) when time and demographic trends are going to bury the Republican Party (in it’s current form) anyhow? Face it, you’re going to have to dump the racism in your party that you’re in denial about, then you may be able to take electoral advantage of those huge pockets of social conservatism that exist in the Black and Hispanic communities. You’ll also be in a better position to see and counter those corporate interests in both parties that are the real causes of the scale of the illegal immigration problem.
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