By now I am sure you have all seen the embarrassing video footage of the Arizona governors debate.  Embarrassing for Jan Brewer that is, not so much for the other candidates.  It is no surprise that less than 24 hours after that debate ended Jan Brewer announced she would not be participating in any further debates.  Wonder why she would do that?

While many in the media are reporting this as a debacle for Gov. Brewer I feel they are taking it rather easy on her.  They are describing her as unprepared, forgetful or unfocused.  To me she appeared stupid, demented, possibly insane or (dare I risk the wrath of Palin) retarded.

During her opening statement Gov. Brewer tried to talk about how much she had helped the state of Arizona and how glorious her reign has been.  That was between the long silences and her giggle fits.  Was she laughing because even she could see how ludicrous her own statements were?  Or was she pausing to listen to the voices in her head and giggling at what they had to say?

With her blank stare, mental ward escapee smile and inability to answer the simplest of questions during the debate, Gov. Brewer displayed her total lack of mental prowess.  She refused to respond in any way to any claim she has made in the past and tried to turn the unions and the candidate they support into the bad guys.

In an interview with CNN’s John King even the top law dog in Arizona, Maricopa county Sheriff Joe Arpaio, (himself under federal investigation)  backpedaled away from Gov. Brewers more racist, inflammatory and unprovable ‘facts’.  Jan Brewer has stated on more than one occasion that because of illegal Mexican drug mules in her state,  headless bodies have been found scattered around the Arizona desert.

After pussyfooting around the question with statements like “I have no political agenda so cannot comment on the Governors statements” and “Well Canada the United States and Mexico are all part of North America and I know headless bodies have been found in Mexico” he finally was forced to admit that he was not aware of any headless bodies found in his county.  In this Sheriff Arpaio is not alone.  Not one county Sheriffs office or coroners department in the entire state is aware of a single headless body found in the state of Arizona.

To hear Jan Brewer tell it her states law enforcement agencies should have headless bodies stacked up around the sheriffs office like cord wood.  The sands of her great state should be stained with rivers of blood from all the headless drug running Mexicans.  Is it any wonder that with no proof whatsoever Gov. Brewer avoids answering questions about her claims at all cost?

There is however, a possible explanation to her insistence that there are the bodies of headless Mexicans yet to be found scattered around her state.  Could it just be possible that she is the only person that knows where these headless bodies are because….wait for it…. she is the one that beheaded them in the first place?  Is she  just waiting for her law enforcement community to find them so she can prove how dangerous Mexicans really are?  It was the voices in her head that told her to do it, so she would be innocent of the crime due to mental incompetence.  All the proof she needs for her defense is on video tape from the Governors debate!  That tape of her is mental incompetence writ large for all the world to see.

Recently Gov. Brewers motives on many issues have come into question due to her close ties with privately owned prisons in her state.  While claiming tens of thousands of arrests of illegal immigrants in Arizona ICE is saying nowhere near that number has been turned over to them.  Needless to say ICE is wondering just where all these detainees are.  Either as in the case of the headless bodies Gov. Brewer is just making things up or she is violating the law by holding detainees in her close friends privately owned prisons at her state taxpayers expense.

Gov. Brewer obviously does not like people looking into her statements or asking her any questions she has no canned,rehearsed or memorized statement with which to answer.  She canceled her advertising with the local television station  that dug too deeply into her double dealing and that of her close aides, claiming that old favorite of the wing nut tea baggers “unfair reporting practices”.

After the debate Gov. Brewer showed off her stupidity once more, just for good measure.  When asked by reporters about her insane claims of the numerous headless bodies in Arizona that crazy Jan tried to give a canned and memorized answer yet again, but on another subject.  When her tiny little brain figured out that the reporters would not accept her diversionary tactic and would press her on the headless bodies she got that thousand mile stare again, listened to the voices in her head, put on her nut house smile, said “thank you for coming” and then pulled a Sharon Angle and ran as fast as she could from the question and the cameras!

Weather insane, stupid or retarded or a combination thereof a few things are obvious about Jan Brewer.

First, she is obviously a liar.  Next, she is a racist.  After that it now appears she may be corrupt as well (a corrupt Republican…NO!…go figure!) She is a little temper tantrum drama queen like so many of her peers and can not tolerate being questioned.  She expects her words to be taken as gospel, not at face value and never questioned.

Last and most important, Jan Brewer is not qualified to lead a high school marching band let alone one of the great states in our nation.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks to reporters at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association, Friday, July 9, 2010, in Boston. AP Photo

What is it about Republican women.  They all try to look so good but they are all either very slow mentally or so into themselves that they understand nothing of the world outside their created reality.    Soon, no amount of cream is going to cover the sagging flesh on these two dear friends.  And yes, I meant to use the word Retard.  But it is directed toward these two ‘women’ , not their families or anyone else, period.

It just seems that Republicans are interchangeable, no matter their sex, state or lies.  I give you the picture below as proof.  See what I mean

Boehner and Palin interchanged. Or maybe not. Eweeeeee!

By BobbiV

Last Night there was a Gubernatorial debate in Arizona between the anti immigration Republican candidate Jan Brewer and the Democratic nominee Terry Goddard.  To say it was a bad night for Brewer would be at the very least an understatement.

She had lapses as long as ten seconds (an eternity of dead air on live television) when apparently her train of thought derailed.  She seemed ill at ease, unprepared and unable to concentrate.

But that was all during her opening statement.  The video below shows her bad start to the evening.

Wow….OUCH!!

The evening got worse for Jan Brewer, much worse.  The tea party darling with her Draconian immigration bill was slow on the uptake and appeared not to be able to answer any off the cuff questions.  If there was any shift from her prepared talking points she froze like a deer in the headlights then would suddenly come back to reality by mouthing another talking point.

Democratic nominee Terry Goddard on the other hand seemed relaxed, responsive and genuinely interested in what is best for the State of Arizona and all its citizens.  He personally asked a question of Brewer about her claim that headless corpses were being found in the desert area of the state, an allegation that proved to be made of whole cloth.  Brewer dodged the question and of course, went back to a talking point.

But after the debate, the Governor didn’t fare so well when confronted by the press.  The video below will let you see her full out stupidity when dealing with this issue.

That is even more revealing and embarrassing for the candidate than the memory lapses during her opening statement.

Is Brewer just an idiot, a false front candidate for other interests, or is she just unable to state her real opinions and answers on anything?

In case you weren’t aware, Gov. Jan Brewer is involved in a wee bit of a scandal that has been dug out by some great local CBS investigative reporting.  Perhaps she is distracted by this mess which of course has to do with money and illegal immigration.  The video below will start to fill you in on this developing scandal.

So there you have it.  The first debate between candidates for governor in Arizona and the first wing nut blood is drawn and in fact, floods the room.  Want to make any bets on further debates?  Want to make any bets on how the press starts to go after Brewer?

There is plenty of blood in the water and the media will do their level best to grab viewers by exposing more shady connections and tearing more flesh off Brewer’s skinny frame.

Start popping the corn, this election season is going to be really interesting.  Politics is so much fun to watch, especially when they fall on their faces by tripping on their own lies.

By BobbiV

It is one thing to play the game of politics, and make no mistake it is like a game of chess.  It is quite another thing to get so caught up in your own bubble of ideology that you forget the American people are the pieces in your game.

Republican politicians,Conservative Christians, the wing nut right fringe and the tea baggers have all forgotten this fact.  They are no longer even acknowledging that the American people deserve a helping hand when needed.  In fact, they have gone so far as to try to tell us they want to withhold unemployment benefits and privatize Social Security.  They do not acknowledge the fact workers paid into unemployment insurance and Social Security.  It is our money you are withholding from the unemployed among us.  That is what the whole thing was enacted for in the first place, helping the unemployed through tough times when they lose a job through no fault of their own.

The right in this country have forgotten their obligation to the workers of this country, and are trying to sweep these pieces off the playing board.  But workers still have a few unions and those unions are making it difficult to ignore the plight of the working class.  That is a really good thing.

But immigrants have been put even one step further down the ladder than American workers.  The right has been attempting and in many ways has been successful in sweeping immigrants off the playing board entirely.  They have largely done this by making villains of anyone who looks different or speaks with an accent.  They want you to believe these people are all here illegally, stealing your jobs and milking the system to get rich.

All the divisive rhetoric and hate mongering on the right has led to the Arizona immigration law which was brought to you by that Wrinkled Wicked Witch of the West, Arizona Republican governor Jan Brewer.   At the present time Brewer is keeping her hateful self busy by being outraged at the Obama Administration.  This is partly because the federal government challenged the Arizona immigration law in court and won a hold on much that is in it.

Brewer’s tizzy also has to do with Arizona being pointed out by the administration to the United Nations Human Rights Council.  In a required report on human rights, the administration pointed to the challenge of the Arizona immigration law as proof of tangible efforts on the human rights front by the US.  Madam Brewer took offense. Whether the offense was caused by outrage or poutrage is not known at this time.  But Brewer has called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to remove the reference to the Arizona law from the Human Rights report.

That leads us to drones.  In particular Predator Drones, the third of which was just put into service over the US-Mexico border.  This comes as part of a six hundred million dollar package the Obama Administration has pledged to be used for heightened border security.

This is where the chess game comes in.  The immigrant pieces are about to be swept from the board entirely. Most Republicans have said they will not even consider let alone address immigration policy until border security can be somewhat guaranteed.  Obama made a move and now it is the Republican turn.

Essentially the bluff of Obamas right wing opponents has been called.  I wouldn’t sweep those immigrant pieces off the board just yet.  Let them stand at the side of the playing board with American workers, the elderly, the disabled and the unemployed.  From there they will have a good view of the coming moves.  This whole game is going to get really interesting very quickly.

To read more about this big board game go to http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/obama-calling-the-rights-bluff-on-immigration/

By BobbiV

It seems to me President Obama does not get enough credit for the things he is doing right.  Republican and even Democratic sources seem to be quick to complain about this president and far too slow to compliment or even say anything positive.

Don’t get me wrong, I sincerely believe any elected official should be taken to task when they are not doing enough, and I think Obama could be doing more in some areas.  But I also believe when elected officials or anyone else does something right, they should receive praise, or at the very least credit for it.

Lets take immigration as an example.  The press has been giving a whole lot of attention to the racist policies that Arizona and its Republican Governor Jan Brewer are trying to implement.  However, the Obama Administration has been quietly going about the business of calling employers to task for hiring illegal immigrants.

Instead of the flak vest wearing, screaming immigration agents breaking down doors like they did during the Bush Administration, this administration has taken a far more cost effective and overall more efficient way of dealing with this problem.

Rather than break down doors which yielded iffy results at best, agents are now auditing employers employee records.  Instead of taking care of one employer with a raid, they now can take care of ten with just one agent who is trained in payroll and record keeping.

Needless to say, this is putting a big pinch on some employers and throwing a lot of illegal immigrants out of work.  But, I thought that what the people who are so hot for immigration reform wanted.  Or was that all just a smoke screen to help election campaigns?  Perhaps the powers that be don’t appreciate so many business owners being held to account and that is the reason for their out of proportion anger at the situation?

In any event, the Obama Administration is doing a good job on this front and they deserve credit for it.  You can read a really good article all about this from the New York Times via MSNBC below

Republican lawmakers say Mr. Obama is talking tough, but in practice is lightening up.

“Even if discovered, illegal aliens are allowed to walk free and seek employment elsewhere” said Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee. “This lax approach is particularly troubling,” he said, “at a time when so many American citizens are struggling to find jobs.”

Employers say the Obama administration is leaving them short of labor for some low-wage work, conducting silent raids but offering no new legal immigrant laborers in occupations, like farm work, that Americans continue to shun despite the recession. Federal labor officials estimate that more than 60 percent of farm workers in the United States are illegal immigrants.

John Morton, the head of the immigration agency, known as ICE, said the goal of the audits is to create “a culture of compliance” among employers, so that verifying new hires would be as routine as paying taxes. ICE leaves it up to employers to fire workers whose documents cannot be validated. But an employer who fails to do so risks prosecution.

You can read the rest here.

Glad to see Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama is so concerned about Americans finding jobs and not struggling.  Just how did you vote on the unemployment extension for these same Americans you so care about Senator Sessions? hmmmmmm?

Who will fill the basket? Who will suffer, the migrant worker or the big farm interests?