JISHOU, HUNAN — According to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has what President Obama doesn’t — balls — because Brewer dealt directly with the state’s illegal immigration problem.
Since “balls” is too rude a word for such a God-fearing woman as Señora Palin to use, she instead used the Spanish slang, “cojones.” Or maybe she was trying to show off how street-wise she is. After all, Obama used “Sí, se puede,” during his campaign.
Of course, Obama was trying to appeal to potential supporters who speak Spanish natively. Palin used Spanish slang to criticize Obama’s supposed inability to deal with undocumented Spanish-speaking immigrants.
Was she even aware of the irony? Or the fact that Obama, as a man, is more likely to literally have cojones than Brewer (a woman, btw)? Or was she trying to make a joke? I doubt it.
Here’s what she said on air Sunday, referring to the controversial Arizona state law SB 1070:
Palin said on “Fox News Sunday” that Arizona’s female Republican governor has “the cojones that our president does not” when it comes to securing America‘s borders.
“This is a temporary suspension of some of the key elements in the law that Jan Brewer pushed hard for Arizonans and for the rest of the country to have the result of us being more secure,” said Palin.
[I have said it before, but I'll say it again. My ESL students in China speak English better than Palin does. The syntax of that last sentence is so convoluted that it almost makes no sense.]
Palin’s word-salad punditry neatly skirts the issue that most of SB 1070 was unconstitutional, because it
gives the state powers that are actually federal by law, and would violate equal protection rights to boot.
So, in Palin’s mind, Brewer’s signing a patently unconstitutional (and therefore eventually ineffective) bill into law is much more ballsy than doing whatever Obama (meaning the federal government) is doing. Maybe she imagines a masked Obama should be riding the range on a white horse, accompanied by his faithful companion, Biden-o, and scaring those Mexicans back across the border with his silver tongue.
Or something.
I want AZ Governor Jan Brewer to show papers to prove she’s a human being. I think it was FOX that did a show on extraterrestrials that live among us, and Governor Brewer does resemble some alien from a B Movie, “Invasion of the Brain Snatchers”, right? I’ve have my suspicions about people like Jan Brewer, Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove because of their lack of human qualities.
As far as the immigration issue goes… Republicans never made a big deal about immigration enforcement during Bush/Cheney but NOW all conservative hell is breaking loose… even though the Obama Administration is deporting MORE illegal’s than Bush ever did. Maybe we should adopt Ronald Wilson Reagan’s immigration policy (look it up morons)
And funny how I didn’t hear NOT ONE WORD on the Cable News about AZ Gov. Jan Brewer’s connection with the Corrections Corp of America. Not to mention I could stop this immigration problem with one thing… ARREST ALL THOSE conservative business people WHO ARE HIRING THE ILLEGAL WORKERS! Republican Party = Hypocrisy
On 7-28-10 I was watching Republicans on Morning Joe (MSNBC) preach about being ADULTS when it comes to our economic meltdown. I say BS! The real ADULTS are trying to demand accountability from those who got us in this financial mess. Republicans want to shift the burden of responsibility on
American working class, teachers, poor people, unions and immigrants.
I wonder if the spoiled Silver Spoons on Morning Joe knew how much they hurt Democrats, Progressives, Liberals when they didn’t challenge NJ Gov. Christie. NOW all over the internet the Conservative wacko groupies are swooning all over Christie like he was a rock star. Of course, because of these Republican low grade thought processes, the right wing monkeys now consider American working class, teachers, poor people, unions and immigrants the biggest threat to our economy
What kind of Americans are stupid enough to believe that decent wages, decent working conditions, enforcing again regulation, reforming our broken financial system and broken healthcare are BAD THINGS! Especially letting all those tax breaks for the rich expire (ten years is enough!) so the rich can again pay their fair share. When the Republicans were running things they started two wars they did not want to finish, set us up for financial system failure and took tax dollars away from grade schools to give BP tax breaks/subsidies (Corporate Welfare). DON’T BELIEVE ME, you rightwing numbskulls, CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELVES! consciousmc.blogspot.com
SPO101 –
Whoa there! Can we stick to just one Republican failure at a time?
The sudden attention to the “immigration problem” coincides with a surge of nativism coming from the direction of the Tea Partiers and their cousin, the John Birch Society. Brewer and the Republicans in the AZ state assembly have latched onto immigration as an “issue” to garner support from the nativists. Then they tack on the “law and order” meme. In true nativist form, they conflate ordinary imigrantes, who are sneaking across the border to get decent pay for a honest day’s work, with the drug runners, who are the real threats to the safety of all Arizonans. After all, it’s not the working stiffs from Mexico who buy the drugs — it’s too expensive — it’s the Anglos who buy the shit. But brown-skinned people are easier to find and arrest.
Immigration is a complex political, social and economic issue. All the GOP has managed to do so far is reduce it to an “Us vs. Them” question, which just won’t work.
What pisses me off more than Arizona’s Keystone Kops approach to immigration is the suggestion from some conservatives (like Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul) that we amend the Constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship. Their logic is as bad as Arizona’s lawmakers’ reasoning: we have an immigration problem because pregnant women rush across the border to have their kids in the USA. If we eliminate birthright citizenship, Paul and his fellow-thinkers believe, immigrants will stop coming.
Except they won’t. Being citizens of the US may be beneficial in the long run, but it’s the short-term prospect of finding a job that brings folks from Mexico and Central America to the States. Like you say, SO101, if we cut off the supply of jobs for undocumented aliens, they would be less likely to cross the border. But that would piss off the Anglos who employ them, and those Anglos are probably Republicans who voted for Brewer and the legislators who passed SB 1070.
So, it’s more politically expedient to piss off the Latinos, who probably won’t vote Republican anyway — especially now.