Over twenty-five hundred people showed up for a Tucson Tea Party event. It’s still a long way toward election time, but they’ll have to maintain the momentum. Of course, Obama continues to make it easy to do so, on the way to his loss next year.
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Meanwhile, it looks like the Arizona Governor is leaving the Tea Party now that she used them to get elected.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-20/gov-jan-brewers-sanity-attack-vetoing-tea-party-backed-birther-gun-bills/#
Gov. Jan Brewer’s Sanity Attack in Arizona
by Terry Greene Sterling
[[[A year ago, incumbent Republican Gov. Jan Brewer was trailing her Democratic rival Terry Goddard in the Arizona gubernatorial race. Then Brewer signed SB 1070, the state’s notorious immigration law, and further pandered to her Republican Tea Party base by touting her proud membership in the NRA, labeling unauthorized migrants drug mules, and scaring the daylights out of Arizonans with false tales of “beheadings” in the desert. ]]]
[[[A year later, incredibly, that iconic status hasn’t diminished, even though Brewer, 66, appears to be changing her political stripes. She reversed a cold-hearted decision to deprive poor people of state-funded transplants in Arizona (after three patients on the transplant list died) and stunned Arizonans on Monday when she vetoed two Tea Party pet measures that had sailed through the state house. Her apparent tick toward the right-of-center comes on the heels of a highly successful Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry campaign to kill five proposed state immigration laws that Brewer likely would have supported a year ago.]]]
It is too bad she vetoed the bill that would have allowed people to buy insurance across states lines.
The “birther” bill was ridiculous. Who could reproduce a certificate of circumcision and how would such a certificate prove citizenship? Brewer made a good point that it was poorly written.
The bill that would allow people to carry guns in school, didn’t really seem like a good idea. Although, trap shooting was one of my favorite classes.
Brewer did authorize the construction of a border fence, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/29/politics/main20058703.shtml
How long until Obama sues Arizona again?
If it was 25 libs at the local Starbucks, it would have led the evening news.
It’s interesting how her veto upsets “the Tea Party”, yet not one person is identified by name. The only link to “the Tea Party” is to a website and a commenter at the website. To get to that link, you first have to visit’s spatula’s daily beast which then links to Forbes, which then links to Gateway Pundit. Unfortunately, you have to skip past the Daily Beast and Forbes to get to information on why Gov. Brewer vetoed the bills other “a distraction”. The “birther” bill allowed circumcision and baptismal records in lew of a birth certificate, which wouldn’t stand up to legal challenge nor seem to have anything to do with the US Constitutional requirement of natural born citizen. The gun bill gave the authority to a single person to determine whether guns could be allowed on a campus.
It appears the bills were poorly written, as the governor notes, and went far beyond what was backed by the original supporters. I’d say the Governor did the right thing. It would be nice if those reporting the issue would spend less time on narratives and more on the actual facts.
I realize I’m only going on the URL Matula posted, but I’d be very interested to hear what’s a “birther gun bill.”
Something tells me there’s just a teensy bit of bias in the telling over there at Daily Beast. Which suggests the real reasons for Brewer’s veto might be slightly different from what DB and Matula are saying.
A new poll out today, shows that the Tea Party is now unpopular with the saner voters in this country – the independent voters who decide Presidential elections.
Here’s the link: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/29/poll-tea-party-support-continues-to-hurt/?hpt=Sbin
The surge of The Donald demonstrates that the Republicans don’t yet have anyone who can challenge the President in a credible manner. A hypocritical thug with a lousy business record – and a fog of pretense pretending to be a ‘business empire’ behind him – has taken over the campaign for the time being.
Leland,
[[[It’s interesting how her veto upsets “the Tea Party”, yet not one person is identified by name.]]]
That is one of the problems of course with an unorganized party like the Tea Party. Its like trying to find someone by name who speaks for an angry mob…
Tom: it’s even worse with the TP. There is the real – and sincere – network of activist groups, then there is the “Tea Party Express, Inc” operation, a faux-populist propaganda organization funded by the Koch brothers and employing as bagman, one Dick Armey, former GOP leader in the House.
That is where the money is, that is the organization (the TPE) that purchased the June 2010 Senate primary for Sharron Angle with $2 Million in the final weeks (in a tiny media market), that is a “populist” organization funded by billionaires for the benefit of billionaires. That is a perversion of real populism.
The real Tea Party will have real trouble keeping itself clean with that sort of scam going on, with the money that is involved.
Thomas Matula Says:
May 1st, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Yes, angry mob. People who take vacation from WORK and voice their displeasure and then clean up after themselves, unlike the actual mob that trashed the Capitol in Madison, the Mall in D.C. and any other place the goons and slackers gather.
Bill,
I see, the teachers, off duty police officers and firefighters that were at Madison are “goons and slackers”. Typical Tea Party arrogance.