by David Safier
The Friday special session is over. Nothing happened. They're supposed to reconvene Monday, but even fewer people will probably show.
Republicans said No to a one word change that would have extended unemployment benefits. Brewer even threw in a few punish-the-unemployed goodies to entice the Rs, but they said, Not Enough. Feed us more corporate tax breaks, or we're taking our marbles and going home!
Did you know, by the way, our $240 a week unemployment benefits are the second lowest in the nation? Just thought I'd throw that in.
Maybe they'll vote for the word change if they can also pass legislation saying unemployed people can't vote — unless,of course, they were registered Republicans before the bill passed, because that means they'd work if they could, unlike those traitorous, anarchist, socialist, atheist, Shariah-law-loving, nanny-state Democrats who want to give the country to the illegal immigrants and the Muslims. It might be hard to get the wording just right on the legislation. Maybe their good friends at ALEC can give them a hand.
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The right wing game of blackmail and derision will never end until the citizens of this great State put an end to it by demanding accountability from their representatives. It is pure silliness that Arizona Republicans are trying to follow the Grover Norquist playbook, when they don’t even know his background and the fact that he is married to a Muslim woman and is the business partner of a know Jihadist sympathizer. In fact, even rabid right winger David Horowitz has accused Norquist of having a relationship with members of the Islamic Brotherhood as recently as at the 2011 CPAC conference. Do these Republican state legislators know anything about Grover Norquist other than that he went to Harvard? This is why Arizona has such a bad reputation; there appears to be no capacity for critical thinking among the top officials in our state.
According to Wikipedia, “Norquist has said: “When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.” Really? That’s the extent of his profundity? Pathetic.
Beam me up Scotty, there’s no intelligent life on this planet.
This was Federal money and would not have cost AZ anything. It is just plain cruelty. I will be at your place on Sunday afternoon and look forward to meeting you.