Arizona Governor Jan Brewer entered a new level of WTF this week:
Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer suggested earlier this week that law enforcement agencies in her home state have discovered “bodies in the desert” either “buried or beheaded” in addressing crime related to illegal immigration; however, local agencies say they have never come across the cases she described.
Brewer made the claim in during an interview with local NBC affiliate 12 News. “Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded,” she said.
Brewer’s claims are pure fiction, as the Arizona Guardian points out that none of the state’s county coroners have ever heard of such a case.
That didn’t stop Brewer’s spokesman from doubling down on the bullshit:
Brewer spokesman Paul Senseman didn’t waste any time in firing back at the factual challenge to the Arizona Governor’s remarks. “Even a cursory check of news stories on the internet suggests otherwise,” he said.
Senseman is likely referring to incidents like this or this or this, none of which occurred in Arizona and none of which have anything at all to do with illegal immigration. This is just another attempt by Brewer to blur the lines between illegal immigration and the drug war, two very separate problems that have two very separate solutions.
What’s profoundly sad about what’s happening in Arizona is that Brewer’s opponent this year in the gubernatorial election is Terry Goddard, the current Attorney General who has acknowledged that we need to have a debate about marijuana legalization as a potential way to deal with the violence of drug cartels – but is trailing in the polls. Arizonans are rightfully fed up with the illegal immigration problem, but lumping together the failures of our drug war with the problem of illegal immigration in order to defend draconian laws and anti-Mexican sentiment does little to get the rest of the country to sympathize.
If illegal immigration were such an important issue for Republican law makers to solve one would think they would enter the discussion reasonably and with facts, and not resort to the type of fear mongering and distorted claims of violence we heard from the likes of Shawna Forde.
Brewer’s comments beg the question of just what it is she and her allies are actually trying to accomplish in Arizona.
Arizona has a Republican governor. She’s a bullshitter. What’s new about that? All Republicans are bullshitters. Everything they say is bullshit, fiction, fantasy, peeled off the wall, snatched out of thin air, vapor.
Even a cursory check of news stories on the Internet suggests that Bat Boy lives, too.
Jan Brewer…next she’ll be telling us the Bolsheviks burned down the Reichstag.
(Is it a violation of Godwin to essentially quote Goehring on the utility of repeated lies?)
She is of course conflating two very different problems, though they are linked, as her opponent points out. Parts of Mexico are ungovernable, indeed unlivable, due to drug gangs – gangs that derive a huge portion of their income selling marijuana in the US. Legalizing and taxing marijuana is not only sensible from a personal freedom analysis, a la comparisons to alcohol regulation, but from a national security POV. It would be a HUGE blow to the Mexican drug industry/gangs for us to take away that source of income. It would help stabilize Mexican society on many fronts, thereby removing one pressure on Mexican people to make the dangerous leap to get north. We verge on having a failed state on our southern border, and this would help tremendously. And it would be a windfall in tax revenue for US states.
And, it would get the jack-booted government thugs out of our black-lit, Floyd-postered mancaves! ;)
US out of my bong!
Go Jan! I’m injoying The Crazy in a give them enough rope sort of way.
Republicans had the the White House & Congress for 6 years, never did a thing about the immigration problem, so all the sudden it’s Obama’s failure, and States have to take drastic measures because the Fed’s are too passive.
Or perhaps electing a black president has caused all the latent racism to bubble to the surface everywhere.
6. The way I remember it, the democrats had congress for two years before Obama was elected and sat on their asses and did nothing. We all know why though don’t we. Democrats wanted the votes they perceived they could get from the “downtrodden” immigrants, and business wanted cheap labor. It was a win-win for politicians and business and the American people suffer as a result. And you’re right…it is Obama’s failure. He is now the guy with the job and he is refusing to do that job. The man-child won’t carry his own water. It’s all Bush’s fault. Go Brewer!!!!!!!
As far as stiffs in the desert goes, I don’t think, given the level of violence down south, it takes much of a leap of faith to believe they are there…even if they haven’t been discovered yet. More likely this is about liberal bullshit trying to cover up the truth.
@7
As far as stiffs in the desert goes, I don’t think, given the level of violence down south, it takes much of a leap of faith to believe they are there…even if they haven’t been discovered yet. More likely this is about liberal bullshit trying to cover up the truth.
Just like Iraq’s WMD’s. LOL! We’ll find them any day now!! Damn liberals!
@8 Exactly!
Rumsfeld knows where the headless bodies in Arizona are:
Well, maybe he meant Phoenix and Tucson.
@7 Uh, Huh! on 07/03/2010 at 10:52 am,
“The way I remember it, …”
I hope your livelihood is not dependent upon your memory.
In 2005 & 2006 when the Republican party had majorities in the house and senate, the U.S House of Representatives passed the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, and in 2006 the U.S. Senate passed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. Neither bill became law because their differences could not be reconciled in conference committee.
And when reform came up again in 2008, Republicans in the senate filibustered McCain’s (the Republican nominee) bill.
And now?
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says we can’t work on immigration because we have to work on Wall Street reform? Well, the Wall Street reform bill is done, and Graham is fighting to prevent the Senate from even voting on the legislation. What kind of rationalization is that?
Lee, Goldy and I have given you a platform to voice your views. We’ve given you great leeway and freedom to talk about pretty much whatever you want to. But one thing we ask is that you keep it local. This post is fine, but just remember it for next time.
Thanks,
T
Comment Section Moderator.
@11
Lying by Republicans is a transcendent issue – it’s global, national and local.
Moreover, marijuana legalization, drug violence and immigration have clear local implications. As do lying and grandstanding by Republican elected officials (see McKenna et al).
Fuck off.
@11
I’m not sure what the voices in your head are telling you, but Goldy has never asked me to only write about local things. In fact, he’s told me I could write about whatever subjects I’d like to.
Deal with it.
Brewer’s recent comments raise a question: is it possible to be a Republican officeholder, given the nature of today’s GOP, without being a quack and a buffoon?
Next up:
Brewer announces an all out effort to locate the community of “Ren Mar” where she is certain that a massive conspiracy is under way to smuggle dope and illegals into the country through a tunnel into the back room of a maternity store.
Say tuned, wingnuts!
Obama should redirect the stimulus pork over to $1000 bounties for every illegal you find. We’d all run down to Home Depot and get some serious spending money. That would help the economy more than anything he’s done yet.
You think it would help more than averting the collapse of the banking system brought on by Republican deregulation? He’s already done that.
Illegal immigration is not a drain on our economy. If anything it is a benefit, even with all the scare talk from the ditto heads.
In many ways our agricultural policies have added to the problem by making U.S. subsidized exports cheaper than Mexican food products and as a result have left Mexican farmer workers without jobs. Those workers then have little choice but to come north looking for work.
Odd thing is that so many conservatives believe in free trade or so they claim but then turn their noses up when it involves people moving across borders looking for work.
Biggest problem is the ignorant bigots on the radio.
Bluecollar; tell my cousin the drywall dude that its good for a guy to cross the desert and steal his job….only benefit being cheaper crappy houses.
why do you libs hate the working man so much.
I can’t cross borders to find work, why should they.
I don’t hate the working man. I am one. I just don’t like lies and bull shit.
why don’t you direct your ire at the guy who HIRES the guy coming across the border?
If THAT GUY didn’t hire the undocumented worker, the slob wouldn’t come here.
A lot of the time the hiring guy’s skin is fairer – that’s why.
Here’s an example:
http://weissbach.com/
Ahhh the arschloch writes…
Tell that to Nancy The Wine Baron Pelosi fool!
Ain’t you one of those “brown skinned” peeps you like to scream and shout about everyday here on your fatASS doing nuthin all day?
Glad to see you elevated your reading materials since you are home all day “writing code”!
21. YLB spews:
The ILLEGALS have perfected the art of forged documents. Have you ever seen what they are producing YLB? It’s amazing. Perhaps you can go into the forged document business with the ILLEGALS?
@22 heh- Somebody’s meds wore off.
@23 The psycho KLOWN. heh- Beyond meds.
Give me a bounty and follow me to Home Depot on a Saturday and we’ll clean up. They are here because the government doesn’t care.
Steve Steve Steve,
Somebody’s meds wore off…? Mentioning Nancy Pelosi’s vineyard hiring standards? From the fool who drinks his own concoction and spews useless crazy manure on HA?
Facts smack yo ugly face everywhere!
Still krazy, huh, Puddy? That’s too bad. I was hoping those new meds would do more than just sedate you for a few days. Try increasing the dosage and see if that helps.
Hmm, I see the KLOWN is quite invigorated today. What’d you do? Bang the goat this morning?
“yo ugly face”
heh- yo mama
Steve Steve Steve,
Puddy was looking at glaciers for the week. Saw some moose who looked like you Steve Steve Steve. It was peaceful, unlike you drinking Steve’s Stupid Solution which produces a highly idiotic agitated state! You!
Speaking of animals, Puddy’s mama so ugly, when she was born the Doc said, “I’m gonna try dropping it! If it runs it’s a rat! If it flies it’s a bat!”
Speaking of animals…
Steve Steve Steve…
Nothing more needed to be said…
Speaking of glacial ice and states of confusion, did Puddy know that the world’s oldest glacial ice is estimated to be 8 million years old? Since Puddy believes the earth is only 6,000 years old and that his mama rode dinosaurs, this must leave Puddy with one hell of a quandry. The easy out? heh- All the scientists are lying just to fuck with Puddy’s mind.
I bet the world’s scientists get a real kick out of fucking with Puddy’s head.
Puddy’s mama so fat, a yellow school bus with white kids in it drove by and she ate it – she had mistaken it for a twinkie.
Well Lee, looks like this thread went to hell fast ;)
Aside from attempting to make a mockery of a law that copies a current federal law…have any of you libs READ the Arizona law?
LMAO!!! That has to be the PINNACLE of paranoid RIGHT WING bullshit..
YOU”RE SAYING THE POOR DUMB FAIR-SKINNED RIGHT WING EMPLOYER LIKE WEISSBACH IS TOO STUPID TO KNOW WHEN HE”S HIRING UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS!
Chuck@36…
Puddy has asked Chris Stefan to read and compare the Arizona law to the Federal law for a while now. The HA arschloch has it all archived on his home version of the HA blog. You can ask him for a replay.
Steve Steve Steve,
When Jesus comes and clarifies the “age of the earth” what will Steve Steve Steve say then:
A) Oops Jesus, I’m sorry I didn’t believe
B) Oops Jesus forgive me. I am a moron
C) Oops Jesus, I was a progressive
D) Oops Jesus, it’s those Stupid Solution chemicals that made me really retarded
E) Oops Jesus I had to renounce you to blog on HA
F) All of the above
@35
Yeah, I ended up doing some other stuff for a while. The crazy brigade had less to do today than I did.
@36
Yep!
It’s legal mumbo-jumbo, but the summary’s are perfectly readable.
I’m still a little unclear where the match for this:
Unlawful Stopping and Solicitation of Work
is in federal law.
I’m also wondering how many Johns and hookers that are American citizens are going to get busted under this section of the law?
And let’s take a second gander at this little gem.
So you’re free to go ahead and pickup illegal day laborers or hookers as long as you don’t block traffic?
Take a gander at these two gems.
Good old Sheriff Joe wouldn’t ever use either of those two gems to run rough shod over people! And these two mirror federal law where and how?
Michael,
Puddy, as you know, is our village idiot. Please do not expose him as such.
I love it when functionally illiterate conservatives ask if you have done what they have not – read some bill or other. (Healthcare, SB 1070) As if there is not ample opportunity to read summaries and analysis galore from different reliable sources. It means they lost the argument and have to start the distractions. It gets even funnier when they start screaming that they read every word and understood it, too. Actually, it’s not funny. Just st00pid. Nevermind.
I skimmed through the Arizona bill for about 5 minutes and then read the legislative summaries. I love it when the righties say the bill does X and sum the thing up in two sentences, when the bill is all over the map.