Payback’s A Bitch – And So Is Jan Brewer, by Mike Gold Brainiac On Banjo #316
When is the tsunami of GOP lies going to subside?
We’ve got the “Obama wasn’t born in America” thing. We’ve got the “Obama is a Muslim” thing. We’ve got the “Obama is a Communist” thing. We’ve got the “Obama faked his way into Harvard” thing. We’ve got the “Obama sides with the terrorists” thing. We’ve got the “Obama has Judeophobia” thing. We’ve got the “Obama was a regular at Chicago gay bars and bathhouses” thing. We’ve got the “Obama is a traitor to America” thing.
Now we’ve got the “Obama is using the sequester as an excuse to release a horde of dangerous illegal aliens” thing.
You might recall Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as the hobnailed totalitarian who made up the stories about the Mexican threat and the headless drug dealers found in the desert to give her Gestapo the right to stop anybody they want and demand to see their papers, on threat of incarceration and possible deportation. You might recall her as the classless, clueless piece of shit who shoved her finger in the President’s face to score a fundable photo op. You might recall her as the poster girl for right wing jerk-offs.
According to Brewer, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) released this dangerous petulance of humanity as payback for her courageous use of armed might to crack down on undocumented immigrants – and anybody who, in the paranoid fantasies of her troopers, might possibly look like an undocumented immigrant. You know, like President Obama, who has no documentation covering his move from Kenya to America.
Brewer told (wait for it) Fox News Friday “I personally believe it could be payback,” Brewer said. “It could be to punish Arizona, to make them squirm. They’re pushing back on what we’re pushing on because we want our border secure and we’re strong about it.”
There are a couple of difficulties surrounding her hysteria.
Like every other department, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s budget was cut. That means they can’t afford to prosecute some of people in their system. The same thing is going to happen with weed busts on the regional level.
This response to the sequester was made by ICE independent of both the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, whose budget was cut five percent. ICE had a 34,000 detainee capacity. You want to cut the budget across the board? Your talking layoffs and your talking reduced services. It’s going to take you longer to get your passport, too. And longer to cross the boarder back from Canada.
The charge that the detainees “are people that have a criminal background to begin with” is hogwash. The term was used to promote the Right’s stock-in-trade: mindless paranoia. A high proportion of detainees have absolutely no arrest record whatsoever. According to ICE, their “priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety.”
So, when is the tsunami of GOP lies going to subside? The day Obama is replaced by an old white Republican guy, or the day one of their handmaidens puts a bullet between his eyes. There’s a lot of gun-totin’ crazies out there, and most of them are Republicans.
No wonder the Right is so hysterically opposed to background checks of gun buyers. As they have said repeatedly, they want their guns to protect themselves from the government.
I get that. If dangerous lying assholes like Jan Brewer and her Republican comrades ever take over the government, I’d want a gun too.
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Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com, every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week – check the website above for times. Gold also joins MDW’s Marc Alan Fishman, Martha Thomases and Michael Davis as a weekly columnist at www.comicmix.com where he pontificates on matters of four-color.
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March 4th, 2013 at 11:47 pm
It’s all so very predictable. The sequester was designed to be an equal opportunity bad idea in the hopes that the poison pill would be so bitter that both parties would come to the table, but of course those on the right are already spinning it as if Obama has some kind of control over what gets cut, and of course they’ll spend all their time blaming Obama for intentionally and personally cutting what they think are all the wrong programs, specifically those involving federal employees in law enforcement and the military. And you know nothing says I’m opposed to big government like demanding that we make sure that all the federal employees with the firepower to impose their secret big brother agenda on us maintain their ability to do so.
March 4th, 2013 at 11:57 pm
But it doesn’t matter what is actually in the sequester, it’s all about deciding whose idea it was and how it affects Bob Woodward. It just amazes me how people call Obama ‘the most divisive president ever….when Congress decided from Day One that anything he wanted would be blocked. And I’m just tired of all the hyperbole, can’t people disagree without something being “the worst?”
March 5th, 2013 at 7:13 am
If it was up to me, I’d balance the budget by cutting federal payments to those states who elected representatives opposed to federal spending. Give them what they asked for, and let the the rest of us have the government that won the election.
March 5th, 2013 at 10:55 am
Vengeance is mine, sayth Martha!
March 5th, 2013 at 4:01 pm
Well, that’s what some right-wing morons have tried to do with their shops, charging people more if they voted for Obama.
March 5th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
And these shopkeepers are monopolists?
March 6th, 2013 at 3:14 am
No, morons.
March 7th, 2013 at 10:19 am
So…was I the only one that didn’t know that ICE contracts with private for-profit companies to run these detention centers with the $1B annual bill being paid to them by the government? That these private companies have little to no accountability to maintain human rights standards for incarceraton in the US because these inmates aren’t citizens…?
How much of this backlash is because these businesses lost a sweet secret paycheck?
Here’s an idea: To make up for the money loss, why don’t these companies launch a reality show and use these illegals as contestants in some sort of race..the ad/sponser money could be huge.
Oh wait. Nevermind. No one could do “Death Race” better than Jason Statham…
March 7th, 2013 at 6:06 pm
The for-profit prison industry, in all its forms, is an amazing thing. An absolute throwback to the times, not all that long ago, when people were kept in prison far longer than they should have been — assuming they should have been incarcerated in the first place — so they could be leased out to local work crews. Because these companies are being paid every day they let somebody rot, you can kiss goodbye the idea of our saving money and humanity from ruin do to our counterproductive and onerous drug laws.
Death Race was just a take on the future. The horrors of the present are much worse, and the taxpayers are paying for it… through the nose.