Brewer: closet liberal union supporter?

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by David Safier
Reagan's 11th commandment — "Thou shalt not speak
ill of any fellow Republican" — has been broken so many times around Phoenix in the past few weeks, I half expect to see the clouds part and hear a thundering rasp from the Great Communicator: "Keep this up, and I'll give you some Communication where the sun don't shine!"

On his blog, Daniel Scarpinato has put together a wonderful string of insults hurled at our Accidental Guv by the not-so-loyal band of fellow Republicans in the legislature.

As always, my favorites come from Cap'n Al Melvin.

“Frankly, I think she’s doing everything she can for the education community, to the point of pandering.”

[snip]

“She’s criss-crossing the state going to every educational group she can talk to.”

"Educational community" and "educational group," of course, are not-so-subtle references to the ed unions and union-symps, like parents and school administrators and school board members and despicable types like that.

The Cap'n is saying less about Brewer than he is about himself. (Hello there, Dr. Freud.) He feels such antagonism toward the teachers' union and people who want to thwart his plans to cut money from education, he views Brewer's statements in support of education as pandering. I mean, how could she honestly believe schools need money to educate children? She must be up to something.

Ready to shut up, Senator Melvin? Not yet? OK, please continue.

“She’s trying to bend over backwards for them, when I think we’ve done that ourselves. . . . She is catering to them. She is literally throwing us under the bus to do that."

"Throwing us under the bus" is an unfortunate choice of terms. (Welcome back, Dr. Freud.) It seems Melvin is the one wanting to throw Arizona's children under the school bus. And as for the R legislators bending over backwards to fund the schools? It's more like they want the schools to bend forward and "assume the position." ("Ouch! Thank you, sir, may I have another? Ouch! Thank you sir, may I have another?")

“From the beginning I’ve always said that I’m not going to decimate education, or the most vulnerable of our population, and I still maintain that."

An interesting use of the negative: "I'm not going to decimate education." I'll gladly harm it. I'll maim it. I'll even cripple it if I have to. But decimate education? No, I wouldn't do that!

Remember the lines from other Republicans a few weeks ago saying their budget cuts won't cause women and children to die in the streets? Melvin is cut from the same coarse cloth.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, your Republican legislators.

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