June 12, 2013

Jan Brewer...ObamaCare Stooge
— DrewM

When last we saw Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, she was vetoing every piece of legislation the Republican controlled legislature passed until they agreed to her budget which included expanding Medicaid under ObamaCare.

Since that didn't work she's now doing an end run around the GOP majorities in the legislature to pass the state's ObamaCare plan.

Fed up with weeks of debate and delay on her top legislative priority, Gov. Jan Brewer called lawmakers into an unprecedented special session late Tuesday, bypassing the leadership of her own party to push through Medicaid expansion and the 2014 budget.

The governorÂ’s surprise move comes after House Speaker Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, adjourned until Thursday, stalling efforts by a bipartisan House coalition to pass BrewerÂ’s 2014 budget and Medicaid expansion.

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State law gives Brewer the authority to call a special session whenever she chooses. The only requirement is that she specify the topics of the session and not deviate from them, said election attorney Tom Ryan.

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At least eight to 10 House Republicans are expected to join the chamberÂ’s 24 Democrats in support of expansion, a coalition that has been loosely organized for months.

Basically by calling the legislature into special session, Brewer is forcing them to vote on her proposals and enabling a minority of Republicans to join with the Democrats to pass ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion.

What this amounts to is what Boehner was doing for awhile to pass things a majority of his caucus doesn't support...let liberal Republicans and Democrats take charge.

Naturally Republican leaders in the state House and Senate aren't amused by Brewer's tactics.

"This evening, Governor Brewer summoned legislators to convene a special session to address the FY14 budget and Medicaid expansion. The special session was called without any consultation with Senate or House leadership, and was designed to commence at the precise moment it was conveyed. We are disappointed and stunned that the Governor and her staff would resort to such an unnecessary, impulsive and unprecedented tactic."

"Since the beginning of the session, Senate and House leadership have made the budgetary process a top priority. Additionally, the debate regarding the full implementation of Obamacare in Arizona was already fully under way. In fact, these two specific items have not only consistently been a top legislative focus, but the other essential bills of the legislature have also been moving through our respective chambers. Instead of allowing the process to proceed in an orderly manner, the Governor made the impetuous decision to intercede and collude with the democrat minority in order to force an expedited vote on her sole legislative priority of Obamacare."

"We are frustrated and bewildered by her overt hostility and disregard for the budgetary process which was already well under way. The blatant disrespect and reckless practices exhibited by this Executive are less than what was expected of her and more than should be tolerated."

Funny how "conservatives" often move left but liberals never "evolve".

Remember, it's never over until the liberals win.

Posted by: DrewM at 09:40 AM | Comments (136)
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1 So, is it guaranteed to pass?

Posted by: Aruges at June 12, 2013 09:41 AM (JMEeN)

2 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:42 AM (/PCJa)

3 Burn it down. Scatter the stones. Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:42 AM (/PCJa)

4 first

Posted by: notachanceinhell at June 12, 2013 09:43 AM (jJA/4)

5 She should have followed Paul Walker's example.

Posted by: EC at June 12, 2013 09:43 AM (GQ8sn)

6 Funny how "conservatives" often move left but liberals never do. Because they're already there? I think you need to add "because liberals never MOVE RIGHT."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 12, 2013 09:43 AM (+98Gb)

7 It's Arizona's business,  not mine.  I thought that was ALSO a conservative value.  If the people in Arizona don't like it,  they can vote her out.

Why is it when we get a good rage going against Obama,  we are suddenly told we are supposed to have white-hot hate for some Republican?

Posted by: Miss Marple at June 12, 2013 09:44 AM (GoIUi)

8 Christie, Rubio, Brewer


WTF??

Posted by: dananjcon at June 12, 2013 09:45 AM (jvd3N)

9 Is Brewer (nominally) Republican? I can't remember.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:45 AM (/PCJa)

10 Marco Rubio approves.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 12, 2013 09:46 AM (DLwhg)

11 So....what did the NSA get on Governor Brewer?

Posted by: Beto at June 12, 2013 09:46 AM (MhA4j)

12 Is she the one with the hair that gets pulled out?

Posted by: dfbaskwill at June 12, 2013 09:47 AM (71LDo)

13

So....what did the NSA get on Governor Brewer?

Posted by: Beto at June 12, 2013 01:46 PM (MhA4j)

...

 

necked selfies

Posted by: notachanceinhell at June 12, 2013 09:47 AM (jJA/4)

14 It's your business. The Federal government will pay for Arizona's Medicaid expansion. And so you will.

Posted by: Gerard Harbison at June 12, 2013 09:47 AM (oiiqn)

15 Rubio, Brewer, Ayotte...heckuva job there, Tea Party. Oh wait, the TP did get Allen West elected. THAT worked out well.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at June 12, 2013 09:47 AM (7ObY1)

16 By the way,  here is ANOTHER case of sudden and inexplicable position changes by a Republican (Toomey,  Rubio, Roberts etc.)

I still think threats and blackmail are not an unreasonable suspicion.

Posted by: Miss Marple at June 12, 2013 09:47 AM (GoIUi)

17 AZ Morons- what's your take on this? Why does she have such a hard-on for the Medicaid expansion?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:47 AM (/PCJa)

18 It's Arizona's business, not mine. I thought that was ALSO a conservative value. If the people in Arizona don't like it, they can vote her out.

Why is it when we get a good rage going against Obama, we are suddenly told we are supposed to have white-hot hate for some Republican?

Posted by: Miss Marple at June 12, 2013 01:44 PM ..........................Because we know and expect Ogabe and team to do. It's what they do. But we're even more tired of getting stabbed in the back by people supposedly on our side.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 12, 2013 09:47 AM (DLwhg)

19 Medicaid=Slush fund money

Posted by: Beto at June 12, 2013 09:48 AM (MhA4j)

20 ...or the one that says nyuk, nyuk, nyuk?

Posted by: dfbaskwill at June 12, 2013 09:48 AM (71LDo)

21 Oh wait, the TP did get Allen West elected. THAT worked out well. Ted Cruz.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:48 AM (/PCJa)

22 Posted by: Miss Marple at June 12, 2013 01:44 PM (GoIUi) Except we all pay for the Medicaid expansion, not just people in Arizona.

Posted by: DrewM. at June 12, 2013 09:48 AM (x8U/s)

23 It's Arizona's business, not mine It is your business. It's your tax-dollars that will go to pay for the Federal part of that Medicaid expansion.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:49 AM (/PCJa)

24

"So....what did the NSA get on Governor Brewer?"

 

I'm sure it involves a hush-hush money order purchase in 1992 from a place in the San Fernando Valley that wass delivered in discreet packaging.

Posted by: Jaws at June 12, 2013 09:49 AM (4I3Uo)

25

"Funny how "conservatives" often move left but liberals never "evolve". "

 

 

Liberals are already perfect, doncha know.  Just ask them.

Posted by: Decaf at June 12, 2013 09:49 AM (AAOE/)

26 Moral of the story? Politicians LIE......Incessantly.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 09:49 AM (xmcEQ)

27 A politician wanting to spend more money? Color me shocked.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at June 12, 2013 09:50 AM (BXLPR)

28 Politicians LIE......Incessantly. So we should stop electing politicians.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:50 AM (/PCJa)

29 Remember, it's never over until the liberals win.

You can say that again.

Posted by: French and Spanish Crusaders at June 12, 2013 09:50 AM (71LDo)

30 SCOAMF went after her when she pointed her finger at him on the tarmac. That was unforgivable to him.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 12, 2013 09:50 AM (+98Gb)

31

Except we all pay for the Medicaid expansion, not just people in Arizona.

 

All your labratories of democracy  are  belong to us!

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at June 12, 2013 09:50 AM (NF2Bf)

32 28 Politicians LIE......Incessantly. So we should stop electing politicians. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 01:50 PM (/PCJa) Second look at Christine O'Donnell???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 12, 2013 09:51 AM (+98Gb)

33 So....what did the NSA get on Governor Brewer?

Posted by: Beto at June 12, 2013 01:46 PM (MhA4j)


The million dollar question. These republicans are flipping at an insane rate. My theory is all politicians are corrupt and used to just give a wink wink to each other. The hard core leftist fascist scumbags waited until a scumbag like obama and company took over and got control of the "intelligence", then they used it on all their opposition in the belief that they'll never NOT be controlling the intelligence.

Posted by: Berserker at June 12, 2013 09:51 AM (FMbng)

34 What happened to The Two Faces of BO? Now faceless?

Posted by: USA at June 12, 2013 09:51 AM (VIaw0)

35 I got a feeling immigration reform is going to get the same treatment from Boehner.

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 12, 2013 09:51 AM (qRasw)

36 Second look at Christine O'Donnell??? Would she really be worse than the Democrat?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:51 AM (/PCJa)

37

:facepalm: Now the Tea Party is gonna get blamed for this, too?

 

Fuck it. Burnscattersalt.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at June 12, 2013 09:52 AM (YmPwQ)

38 Why is she doing it?

Posted by: Kasper back in Arlington at June 12, 2013 09:52 AM (HqpV0)

39 "I still think threats and blackmail are not an unreasonable suspicion.

Posted by: Miss Marple at June 12, 2013 01:47 PM (GoIUi)"

 

 

Obama was going to get his revenge for Brewer's wagging of her finger in his face.  What better way then getting her to alienate her own party.

Posted by: Decaf at June 12, 2013 09:52 AM (AAOE/)

40 How about a recall for this governor.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 12, 2013 09:53 AM (P7hip)

41 Oh, We're sorry. We did that thing in your mouth again. It really was an accident. Where were we. Oh, For just $100.00 you will be considered a silver sponsor in an effort to stop President Obama's dangerous agenda!

Posted by: The GOP at June 12, 2013 09:53 AM (DLwhg)

42 Bet you that the NSA have some pics of her with "Julio the cabana boy" at some resort outside of PHX???

Posted by: Pimp Daddy Welfare at June 12, 2013 09:53 AM (Jls4P)

43 And not to put to firm of a point on it, she VETOED a law which would REQUIRE any Presidential candidate to provide an Actual Birth Certificate to the Sec State in order to be placed on the Ballot. She claimed she didn't want the Secretary of State deciding who is eligible to be on the ballot, so she vetoed it so as to keep the existing system where the Secretary of State decides who is eligible to be on the ballot.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at June 12, 2013 09:53 AM (bb5+k)

44

Rubio, Toomey, Ayotte, Ryan, Brewer...   and remember that Scalia sided with the liberals on the last decision.

 

George Soros must be changing solid conservatives into liberal commies using a ray gun from orbit.  Only tin foil hats will protect the few remaining true believers.

 

It's either that or some of the cobloggers and commenters at a popular smart military blog are acting like hysterical women. 

 

We'll figure this out together.

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 09:53 AM (u2a4R)

45 Posted by: Lurking Canuck at June 12, 2013 01:50 PM (NF2Bf) Fund your own damn laboratory and you can do whatever you want.

Posted by: DrewM. at June 12, 2013 09:53 AM (x8U/s)

46

So....what did the NSA get on Governor Brewer?Posted by: Beto at June 12, 2013 01:46 PM (MhA4j)

 

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I can't help but think of this every time one of "ours" crosses the aisle.  Same goes for Rubio.  And we know the dems  don't have to pay any consequences for the actions but the repubs  are  lambasted and personally destroyed  by the media.

 

We live in a tyranny.  What else would I think?

Posted by: Soona at June 12, 2013 09:54 AM (MhjjL)

47 Bu gold you stupid bastards.

Posted by: Bob Gunton at June 12, 2013 09:54 AM (V1ZIU)

48 Rubio, Brewer, Ayotte...heckuva job there, Tea Party. Oh wait, the TP did get Allen West elected. THAT worked out well. Posted by: BlueStateRebel at June 12, 2013 01:47 PM (7ObY1) Well, first off. Fuck you. Second, the Tea Party pushed for "Conservatives" based on the fact that they didn't expect their candidates to step on their nuts shortly after election. You take conservatives at their word because you don't think they will lie to you like Dems or RINO's. West was a victim of "the establishment" and redistricting. They are learning their lessons. However, this battle is going to take YEARS to weed out the fuckholes and get some true conservatives in offices.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 09:54 AM (xmcEQ)

49 WTF is going on with all the so-called conservative politicians?  Has to be threats and blackmail.  and the SS going after twitter users against Ogabe?  I don't get it.  Well, yes I do and it's frightening.

Posted by: Infidel at June 12, 2013 09:54 AM (O/fK8)

50 36 Second look at Christine O'Donnell??? Would she really be worse than the Democrat? Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 01:51 PM (/PCJa) I was being semi-sarcastic. She could not have been any worse.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 12, 2013 09:54 AM (+98Gb)

51

Impeach her.


Recall her.

Posted by: SCOAMF Returns at June 12, 2013 09:55 AM (3oPjL)

52
One of the alinsky rules is about never compromising. The dems seem to have a perfect record in that. The repubs think of compromise as a good thing, they are wrong.

OT side note, 2015 of course:

Buried in a little-noticed rule on microwave ovens is a change in the U.S. governmentÂ’s accounting for carbon emissions that could have wide-ranging implications for everything from power plants to the Keystone XL pipeline.

The increase of the so-called social cost of carbon, to $38 a metric ton in 2015 from $23.80, adjusts the calculation the government uses to weigh costs and benefits of proposed regulations. The figure is meant to approximate losses from global warming such as flood damage and diminished crops.

Posted by: Teh FBI at June 12, 2013 09:55 AM (g5YAm)

53

"Second look at Christine O'Donnell???"

 

 

If Wiener can attempt a comeback why not a non-witch?

Posted by: Decaf at June 12, 2013 09:55 AM (AAOE/)

54 So we should stop electing politicians. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 01:50 PM (/PCJa) I couldn't agree more. Easier said than done, unfortunately.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 09:56 AM (xmcEQ)

55 The hard core leftist fascist scumbags waited until a scumbag like obama and company took over and got control of the "intelligence", then they used it on all their opposition in the belief that they'll never NOT be controlling the intelligence. Whether this is so or not, this is a powderkeg in today's environment. Should one such key person with a skeleton in his closet come clean about his scandal in public while claiming that Obama and his minions are blackmailing him, it would end the world as we know it.

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at June 12, 2013 09:56 AM (V3kRK)

56 So, people are acting weird/out of character? Brewer, Kasich, SCOTUS Roberts, Ayotte. Gentlemen, I give you the N. S. A.

Posted by: Schwalbe at June 12, 2013 09:56 AM (vAjpf)

57 What has happened to this woman? Is she going through "the change" or something?

Posted by: Dr Spank at June 12, 2013 09:56 AM (qRasw)

58 I suggest the legislature defund the governors office in their next budget.

Posted by: Vote Lord Humungus 2016 at June 12, 2013 09:56 AM (HEa5q)

59 21 Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 01:48 PM Cruz is actual TEA party. The TEA party started as a libertarian movement in 2005 with a rally here in Austin that saw governor Perry booed from the dais. By 2008 the movement was infiltrated by the GOP and has been ineffectual ever since. With the exception of Paul and Cruz.

Posted by: Beto at June 12, 2013 09:57 AM (MhA4j)

60 Well this is productive.

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2013 09:57 AM (jlW3q)

61 I am so done with these weasels. I'll support an actual conservative if there's any left. But my God, the caving in and conniving backstabbing from our own side on major issues is mind numbing.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 12, 2013 09:57 AM (DLwhg)

62 The RINO turn coat, shit heel list is growing faster than Daenerys Targaryen's dragons.


Posted by: dananjcon at June 12, 2013 09:57 AM (jvd3N)

63

Sorry but this blog has lost all credibility in relation to ObamaCare---that title "Jan Brewer...ObamaCare Stooge" can just as easily be Ace of Spades...RomneyCare Stooge.

<p>The fierce defense of Romney's government run healthcare from this website during the presidential primaries pretty much should preclude the bloggers from complaining about a governor trying to implement a very similar government run healthcare on her state.

 

 

Posted by: doug at June 12, 2013 09:57 AM (uJ8q7)

64 Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 01:53 PM (u2a4R) You like it when they do that in your mouth, don't you? It's never that the politicians have failed to live up to their promises or our (face it) very modest expectations. Nope, our very modest expectations were just way too extreme and icky. No one could support those. Rule of law? Who needs that? Fiscal responsibility? Completely worthless.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 09:58 AM (/PCJa)

65 Scare tactics, work every time

Posted by: notachanceinhell at June 12, 2013 09:58 AM (jJA/4)

66 Cruz is actual TEA party. The TEA party started as a libertarian movement in 2005 with a rally here in Austin that saw governor Perry booed from the dais. By 2008 the movement was infiltrated by the GOP and has been ineffectual ever since. With the exception of Paul and Cruz. Posted by: Beto at June 12, 2013 01:57 PM (MhA4j) Oh yeah, that's right. Ron Paul started it........yeech.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 09:58 AM (xmcEQ)

67 AZ Morons- what's your take on this? Why does she have such a hard-on for the Medicaid expansion?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 01:47 PM (/PCJa)

 

Medicare does not pay for nursing homes.

Posted by: Invictus at June 12, 2013 09:58 AM (OQpzc)

68 "Stop electing politicians." There is only one way to "elect" people into power outside the system of politics.

Posted by: Augusto Pinochet at June 12, 2013 09:58 AM (3wsVT)

69 Fucking cow!!

Posted by: McStool at June 12, 2013 09:59 AM (rxnpE)

70 I was being semi-sarcastic. She could not have been any worse. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 12, 2013 01:54 PM (+98Gb) It's the sound bites that get us. They get played endlessly by Liberal Democrats who run the media industries in this nation. It's not that Liberals don't say stupid things too, it's that they are protected by the Liberal Democrats who run the media industries so that it doesn't cause any problems.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at June 12, 2013 09:59 AM (bb5+k)

71 Crank up the futile rageometer!

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2013 09:59 AM (ZCAlb)

72
Termed out* as Gov and the state Senators ain't moving. Next stop, Obama "bi-partisan" cabinet appointment.



*rumors she's planing a challenge against the state constitution to run for a third term.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 12, 2013 09:59 AM (kdS6q)

73

"With the exception of Paul and Cruz."

 

Didn't you get the memo?  Paul went with immigration reform, so he's a RINO now.

 

Cruz stands along for the next few days.

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 09:59 AM (u2a4R)

74 Jan Brewer: great on immigration, terrible on everything else.

Marco Rubio:  terrible on immigration, great on everything else.

Poor DrewM can't figure out whom he hates more at this point.

Posted by: Lou at June 12, 2013 09:59 AM (xp1pq)

75 "Why is she doing it?" --- Well you can eliminate "on the merits of the proposal".

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at June 12, 2013 10:00 AM (7mQyC)

76 Fund your own damn laboratory and you can do whatever you want.

Posted by: DrewM

 

Sadly, a situation that will not be seen again until Post-Burning Times.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at June 12, 2013 10:00 AM (NF2Bf)

77 There is only one way to "elect" people into power outside the system of politics. But that's not what I said. I said stop electing politicians. Anyone who has been in various elected offices for more than about 10 - 12 years (12 years is two senate terms, so I'll give them that much) is suspect.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 10:01 AM (/PCJa)

78 Term. Limits. That is all.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 10:02 AM (xmcEQ)

79 The republicans are turning into conservative democrats right before our very eyes.

Maybe they should change the letter a giant C or Conservative and everyone else.

Posted by: caustic at June 12, 2013 10:03 AM (/b8+5)

80 Oh, I know I promised not to do that thing in your mouth again. I was drunk, sorry. No go make me a sandwich for the road, Sure I'll call you tomorrow.

Posted by: The GOP Morning After at June 12, 2013 10:03 AM (DLwhg)

81 They are learning their lessons. However, this battle is going to take YEARS to weed out the fuckholes and get some true conservatives in offices.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 01:54 PM (xmcEQ)

 

 

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Repubs have to be perfect  or the leftist machine will destroy them.  And many voices on this blog will be right there pulling the levers of the wrecking ball. 

 

I think what we're seeing  are the machinations of tyranny, pure and simple.

Posted by: Soona at June 12, 2013 10:03 AM (MhjjL)

82 "56 So, people are acting weird/out of character? Brewer, Kasich, SCOTUS Roberts, Ayotte. " --- Perhaps they were just acting "weird" before and have returned to regular.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at June 12, 2013 10:04 AM (7mQyC)

83 Here in Az, we call it ObrewerCare

Posted by: Tabby at June 12, 2013 10:04 AM (Lu1xb)

84
Medicare does not pay for nursing homes.
Posted by: Invictus



Does for certain post-hospital stays in skilled nursing facilities.

Regardless, Medicaid does pay.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 12, 2013 10:04 AM (kdS6q)

85 Term.


Limits.


That is all.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 02:02 PM (xmcEQ)

 

 

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Too late.

Posted by: Soona at June 12, 2013 10:05 AM (MhjjL)

86 Jan Brewer: great on immigration, terrible on everything else.

Marco Rubio: terrible on immigration, great on everything else.

Posted by: Lou at June 12, 2013 01:59 PM ....Maybe we could clone a combination of them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 12, 2013 10:05 AM (DLwhg)

87
We are living in the burning times. It just hasn't got to full flame yet.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 12, 2013 10:05 AM (g5YAm)

88 "It's never that the politicians have failed to live up to their promises or our (face it) very modest expectations. Nope, our very modest expectations were just way too extreme and icky. No one could support those. Rule of law? Who needs that? Fiscal responsibility? Completely worthless".

 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 01:58 PM (/PCJa)

 

If you required the same level of purity in women that you do in politicians, they would all be in burqas.

 

Do you really believe that all these people who used to be solid conservatives a few months ago are now all liberal sellouts?

 

Who the fuck would want to be a republican elected official if this is the level of support and trust they get?  What ever happened to having someone's back and fighting democrats?

 

 

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 10:05 AM (u2a4R)

89
The republicans are turning into conservative democrats right before our very eyes.
Posted by: caustic



Conservative Democrat you wish. Scoop Jackson would look pretty darn good about now.

They've become Liberals on anything that matters.


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 12, 2013 10:06 AM (kdS6q)

90 Have we ever seen Janice Kay "Jan" Brewer and Kay Bailey Hutchison in the same room?  Looks like we dodged a bullet with that last Texas Governor election.

Posted by: Tea Party Reaver at June 12, 2013 10:08 AM (epxV4)

91 Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 02:05 PM ..............These are major fucking issues they are caving on. There is an actual party platform. Representing the party means you should agree and adhere to it. We're not talking about a minor issue. If they won't stand with the people that elected them on the big things why the FUCK should I support them at all.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 12, 2013 10:10 AM (DLwhg)

92 The truth about Brewer's "about face" lies with the exchanges, budgets, and reality.  Most states can't build their own insurance exchanges--it is very hard and very expensive--my company is spending $100,000,000 on it and we do not think that will be enough money.  Most states have recognized that refusing Medicaid money will bust their budgets.  All of this is just designed to break any state's independence from the Feds on healthcare costs, then break the insurance companies, and then deliver single payer in the form of Medicaid/Medicare for everyone and you will be paying a huge chunk of your income for it all.

In the decades to come, CJ John Roberts will become one of the most reviled men in American history.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at June 12, 2013 10:10 AM (kXoT0)

93 Hey, any truth to the rumor it's OK to hold legislators incommunicado for the several days it takes to let a special session expire with the business undone?  I have this little problem in one state where that might help....

Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at June 12, 2013 10:10 AM (B5y+v)

94

Word is Brewer tried to get Tobin replaced as the committee chair. His committee voted down OBrewercare.

 

 

She better watch it. A petition to recall her scrawny ass won't be hard to get going.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (All my Hate cannot be found) at June 12, 2013 10:11 AM (cyKNf)

95
Term. Limits. That is all.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 02:02 PM (xmcEQ)






Meh. They'll just swap districts and run again. Happens in a LOT of City Councils and County Boards. Los Angeles is notorious for this.

Ban running for office if the candidate has held elective office within the preceeding 2-4 years. Force them to re-enter the private sector, even for a short time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 12, 2013 10:12 AM (TIIx5)

96 I sometimes think it would be a good thing for the liberals to think Hillary stands a chance at the WH in 2016. I do so presuming there's still a lot of white hot hatred from conservatives that remember the scandle plague that was her husband's administration. On the other hand, I still marvel at the number of SCOAMF voters that hadn't figured out Barry's agenda in time for his re-election.

Posted by: MrObvious at June 12, 2013 10:13 AM (jgcLl)

97 What ever happened to having someone's back and fighting democrats? Why don't you ask them that? I'm not the one caving on a Medicare expansion which will be very, very bad for my State's budget. I'm not the one who is caving on Amnesty. In fact, it seems to be us "purists" who haven't forgotten that the Democrats need to be fought. But you keep telling yourself its your own fault. If you don't make the Republicans mad, next time they won't hit you.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 10:14 AM (/PCJa)

98
Who the fuck would want to be a republican elected official if this is the level of support and trust they get? What ever happened to having someone's back and fighting democrats?

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 02:05 PM (u2a4R)

 

Pat Toomey and Marco Rubio called.  They're pissed at you for hogging Obama's cock you pathetic turd.

Posted by: buzzion at June 12, 2013 10:16 AM (LI48c)

99 Paul also said he envisions today’s illegal aliens becoming additional “taxpayers.”
http://tinyurl.com/kbt8z73

Posted by: caustic at June 12, 2013 10:20 AM (/b8+5)

100

Wis Gove is Scott Walker, we have a Congressman by the name of Paul Ryan. That aside.

 

Sure AZ pass Obama's Medicaid bullshit and then in 3-5years (tops) when the Feds cut your money and you are unable to cut the free stuff and the people you accept to the rolls you will be screaming! But then again, I will laugh in your face and say, "I told you so"......Fucking greedy politicians, and they just aren't Dems either. Jan Brewer has sold her state out for a big wad of cash up front and a bigger shortfall in the near future. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at June 12, 2013 10:21 AM (HVff2)

101 I don't know if anyone here besides me actually believes it, but the Bible says that before the return of Christ and the establishment of His Kingdom there will be a brief period of absolute governmental rule over all humanity. It will be composed of a one world economy, government and religion, all in one. It will be the ultimate expression of man's wickedness and no living person will be exempt from submission to it.

Everything we see happening around us points in that direction. One need not believe the Bible to at least acknowledge that much as true. For the first time in history, the technology needed to implement that all-seeing global rule *actually exists* and is being used for purposes that can and will lead toward that ultimate end.

But not only the technology to do it exists; the global statists among us - most of whom would sooner defecate on an open Bible than read it -  have the desire to bring to pass exactly what the the Word foretells.

Here's the point: America as founded is in the way of both the global statists and of Bible prophecy.

Personal liberty guided by law and conscience MUST be eradicated for the final global system to come into place. Today we only glimpse what will come. The IRS quashing freedom of opinion. The NSA seeking to know the thoughts of everyone it can categorize, enemy or citizen. The defection of people we thought and hoped we could trust to "save us." It's all what could only be expected to happen, and at an accelerating rate, if the Bible's prediction of the near future is true.

Disbelieve and disregard it all if you like, but if you look at these individual puzzle pieces in isolation, they may not make sense, you'll get even more frustrated and angry, and they'll blur together before long, shedding light but no illumination, leading only to despair when the people you thought you could trust betray you.

But hang everything - EVERYTHING - you know about our current state of affairs onto the framework of a coming one world government/economy/religion and it ALL starts to make sense, even if your mind and heart recoils from the realization.

Try it and see.

Posted by: Deep breath before the plunge at June 12, 2013 10:22 AM (mV5Rx)

102

As a conservative, I'm still trying to figure out what you people consider yourselves to be.

 

What are you?  Do you think you're a conservative or a libertarian or some hybrid?

 

 

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 10:24 AM (u2a4R)

103 Yes Jwest. How dare we mere minions take issue with the people we've supported who were more than happy to lie to us to get elected.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 12, 2013 10:24 AM (DLwhg)

104 Funny, when did conservative come to mean death panel loving, gun grabbing, amnesty supporting cocksucking sellout.

Posted by: buzzion at June 12, 2013 10:25 AM (LI48c)

105 NSA has obviously found something in the records of one Brewer, Jan of Phoenix, AZ.  Probably a picture she has on her Verizon phone.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at June 12, 2013 10:25 AM (Z5KPR)

106 50 36 Second look at Christine O'Donnell??? Would she really be worse than the Democrat? Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 12, 2013 01:51 PM (/PCJa) I was being semi-sarcastic. She could not have been any worse. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 12, 2013 01:54 PM (+98Gb) She would sell out in a nanosecond. Don't forget that she was a perpetual candidate that ran for office for a living. She just co-opted the Tea Party message to get the Delaware GOP Senate nomination.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at June 12, 2013 10:28 AM (BXLPR)

107 I haven't read the whole thread but I recall an interview with a guy that was trying to set up healthcare compact agreements between states as a replacement for the abominable 0bamcare exchanges. He said Brewers' staff was loaded with people aligned with the insurance industry so they didn't have any interest in his proposal. The site relating to compacts is http://healthcarecompact.org/ I don't recall the name of the guy, but as I recall it was on Dr. Dave Jandas' show "operation freedom" http://www.davejanda.com/operation-freedom Unfortunately he just re-worked his site and I can't readily search the damn thing

Posted by: Name Redacted at June 12, 2013 10:28 AM (W6wuT)

108 Ron Paul started it........yeech.

Posted by: © Sponge at June 12, 2013 01:58 PM (xmcEQ)

Actually...... no.

Posted by: Beto at June 12, 2013 10:29 AM (VWfCN)

109

"We are frustrated and bewildered by her overt hostility and disregard for the budgetary process which was already well under way. The blatant disrespect and reckless practices exhibited by this Executive are less than what was expected of her and more than should be tolerated."

 

And what are you assholes going to do about it, sparky?  Whine that she's not playing fair?  Alinsky the shit out of the bitch.  Introduce articles of impeachment.  Force a "no confidence" resolution.  Call her out on shady financial dealings.  Either leave the legislature or do a sit-in; whatever stalls the bill.  For once in your godforsaken lives, act like men and destroy the Obama-felching bitch!  Is that too much to ask?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 12, 2013 10:30 AM (zF6Iw)

110 104 Funny, when did conservative come to mean death panel loving, gun grabbing, amnesty supporting cocksucking sellout.  

Posted by: buzzion at June 12, 2013 02:25 PM (LI48c)

 

Conservatives know that you can't have the liberal fantasy of paying for the entirety of medical technology for every person in the country regardless of age and affliction.  Only a left wing idiot would thing otherwise.

 

Conservatives agree with the position the NRA held for years that criminals and crazies should not be allowed to buy guns.  Whatever your paranoid ideas are beyond that are, you should consult with your mental health provider.

 

Conservatives recognize that illegals are pouring over the border and receiving every benefit this country has to offer from day one.  Conservatives want to change this.  Keeping the status quo doesn't accomplish it. 

 

 

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 10:31 AM (u2a4R)

111 Funny, when did conservative come to mean death panel loving, gun grabbing, amnesty supporting cocksucking sellout.

Posted by: buzzion at June 12, 2013 02:25 P.........................Beats me. All I know is I went to a party over at McCain's place. Next thing I know, it's morning. I'm all crusty and I felt different.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at June 12, 2013 10:31 AM (DLwhg)

112 Conservatives recognize that illegals are pouring over the border and receiving every benefit this country has to offer from day one.Conservatives want to change this. Keeping the status quo doesn't accomplish it.

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 02:31 PM (u2a4R)

 

And they also recognize that licking schumer's ass and sucking Obama's dick isn't the way to do it.  And that's exactly what you are doing dumbass.

Posted by: buzzion at June 12, 2013 10:33 AM (LI48c)

113

Sorry but this blog has lost all credibility in relation to ObamaCare---that title "Jan Brewer...ObamaCare Stooge" can just as easily be Ace of Spades...RomneyCare Stooge.

 

Did we invite you to comment?  Should we care what vomits out of the chancre-ridden pus hole Daddy's dick calls "home?"

 

No?

 

Then get cancer, fuck off and die, troll.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 12, 2013 10:34 AM (zF6Iw)

114 And they also recognize that licking schumer's ass and sucking Obama's dick isn't the way to do it. And that's exactly what you are doing dumbass.

 

Posted by: buzzion at June 12, 2013 02:33 PM (LI48c)

 

You've never been able to defend one of your positions before, so I don't know why I expected anything different this time.

 

Put the straw back in your toothless mouth and go sit by the cracker barrel with the rest of the rubes. 

Posted by: jwest at June 12, 2013 10:35 AM (u2a4R)

115 Jwest, Do you ever offer anything constructive? I mean that sincerely. You never actually put forward any substantive arguments. What you do is the equivalent of rolling your eyes sarcastically - it's basically the style of argument used by the Jon Stewart adoring hipsters on twitter and other social media outlets.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at June 12, 2013 10:35 AM (Ud5vq)

116 Then get cancer, fuck off and die, troll.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 12, 2013 02:34 PM (zF6Iw)

 

 

I would like to make an amendment to that, testicular cancer, fuck off in pain and die troll.

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian at June 12, 2013 10:36 AM (HVff2)

117 F* it. LIB.


Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at June 12, 2013 10:36 AM (0q2P7)

118 Then get cancer, fuck off and die, troll.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 12, 2013 02:34 PM (zF6Iw)


Is that before or after sliding under the flaming gasoline truck? lol

Posted by: Berserker at June 12, 2013 10:39 AM (FMbng)

119 The ovomit spyatoreium has pics of her fucking (fill in the blank.)

Posted by: Torqued at June 12, 2013 10:42 AM (AKS75)

120 Awww is jwest getting upset that he has to accept that he is nothing more than chuck schumers ass licker? Suck it up buttercup the truth hurts.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 12, 2013 10:43 AM (WXquv)

121 I'll go with the NSA found something on Brewer or a loved one for a $1000 Alex.

Posted by: jukin at June 12, 2013 10:50 AM (WGm5T)

122 Without a quorum, the special session can't pass anything. I hear rhar New Mexico is nice this time of year. The Dems have already set this precedent. Brewer wants the money now, and is term limited, so doesn't care what happens later.

Posted by: ManeiNeko at June 12, 2013 10:59 AM (TiE76)

123 Wait,  this is not making sense....I thought Brewer hated   anything Obama touched.  But she loves Obamacare?  She fought so hard to get the Arizona   Law and   now she is going  try to   expand Medicaid  for  even more people and then  all those she has fought against?   Is she up for re-election or something? Trying to soften her image a bit to voters?  I am all for states' rights---each individual state finds what works  for them, but  come on.

Posted by: Mo the girl at June 12, 2013 11:02 AM (dXPup)

124 I'll go with the NSA found something on Brewer or a loved one for a $1000 Alex.

Posted by: jukin at June 12, 2013 02:50 PM (WGm5T)



The American political system used to be predicated on the theory that all politicians were either out-right whores, or potential whores that hadn't gotten the right offer yet.


Under Obama, there is an alternate theory that the remaining politicians (or their family members) have engaged in highly questionable activities in their past and someone now has really good documentation (pics or it didn't happen) and has reasoned with them persuasively to reconsider their political positions.

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 12, 2013 11:06 AM (Cnqmv)

125 88 j west, Again FUCK YOU. Donk ass motherfucker kepps on moving their agenda. It's enabled by assholes like you. Go fuck yourself

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at June 12, 2013 11:06 AM (7VwTY)

126 For once in your godforsaken lives, act like men and destroy the Obama-felchingbitch! Is that too much to ask?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 12, 2013 02:30 PM (zF6Iw)


Apparently, yes!


"our Lives, our Fortunes, our sacred Honour"

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 12, 2013 11:13 AM (Cnqmv)

127 102 geest, you're as much a conservative as I am an Obamafan dumbass

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at June 12, 2013 11:14 AM (7VwTY)

128 Say it with me again, folks...

Let It Burn.

Posted by: DocJ at June 12, 2013 11:18 AM (du8Bm)

129 128 doci, dry out the kindling and put holes in the bucket

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at June 12, 2013 11:21 AM (7VwTY)

130 Jan Brewer lives in a state full of AARP seniors and CA Democrats fleeing the consequences of their actions and determined to inflict those mistakes on the children of another state.  There's limits to what she can do and stay in office.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at June 12, 2013 11:35 AM (qvify)

131 Jan Brewer is a Mama Grizzly with the cojones that our president does not have! You betcha!

Posted by: Remember That Shit? at June 12, 2013 11:41 AM (AVaK2)

132 There's limits to what she can do and stay in office. Posted by: richard mcenroe at June 12, 2013 03:35 PM (qvify) And staying in office is more important than siding with your party. Brewer must cater to the fleeing rats who wrecked their blue state economies, and to hell with the Arizonans who voted her in.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at June 12, 2013 11:45 AM (AVaK2)

133 My guess is there's big money involved. Brewer probably has some investment or job lined up that will pay off big time. It's too bad we don't have any "investigative journalists" to look into her contacts since she's doing exactly what they want her to do. She's going to get rich off of this. Or richer. I don't know anything about her so I have no idea how rich she is now. I can't stand her. She's on Greta a lot and I can't stand her stuttering, stammering, annoying voice. Between the two of them, they're like listening to fingernails on a blackboard. Greta's monotonous rambling questions followed by Brewer's stuttering stammering uh, ah, er, answers. Oh, God. Somebody shoot me.

Posted by: Jaynie59 at June 12, 2013 11:51 AM (4zKCA)

134

Defund her.  It's funny how the Executive has all of the balls, and the Legislature never does.

 

Cut off her check.  Stop paying her, if the Arizona Constitution allows it.  Shut down her expense account, etc.

 

Get creative.  You're not figureheads.  Dickheads, maybe, but not figureheads.

 

DO something.  Up the bet until she's willing to talk sense - but don't bluff.  She's not.

Posted by: RobM1981 at June 12, 2013 12:59 PM (lV1tZ)

135 Best strategy is to open the ENTIRE budget for debate, especially the parts already agreed upon, and bring up every detail and counter-argument you can on every item. She wants a special legislative session on the budget? Give her what she wants, good and hard.

Posted by: Socratease at June 12, 2013 01:25 PM (3V4IJ)

136 "What are you? Do you think you're a conservative or a libertarian or some hybrid? " -- Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at June 12, 2013 02:10 PM (7mQyC)

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