Here's a fun little postscript: Remember that little "Go ahead and discriminate" bill that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a couple weeks back? Turns out that before she signed against it, her office was helping to put it together. It was probably pretty good exercise, playing on both sides of the fence like that.
<i>Brewer&rsquo;s press aide, Andrew Wilder, said that staff had met with the bill&rsquo;s sponsors to discuss the bill&rsquo;s language, but that such meetings are fairly common and do not indicate an intention to support proposed legislation even after it has been modified.</i>
So, will staff also be meeting with sponsers of the bill to, say, force everyone to stand on their heads each Monday morning at 945am? Thought not you lying sack of shit...
I haven&#039;t seen Herrod this pissed since the end of their <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=3MH6efoYzJE" target="_blank">big dance number</a>.
My reading here is that Brewer and her staff had serious reservations about the bill and were trying to pare it down in advance as a hedge in the event that it did become law via an override of her possible veto (if she decided to do that). They may have wanted to get ahead of the bill in order to try to steer it in a direction that would minimize any political harm to themselves or the state. I suspect that they always thought that the bill was BS and not the kind of thing that the lege needed to be focusing on. Brewer is no doubt concerned about her legacy, which can be a powerful antipsychotic. She doesn&#039;t want to go down in history as a governor who presided over a decline in the state, or at least one who failed to address an ongoing decline. The strong negative reaction to the bill&#039;s passage may have been the final nail in the coffin, convincing her that there was no way that she could support it. The storm of protest also probably gave Brewer the kind of political cover that she needed to allow her to come out against the bill.
<i>Herrod is pretty sure that Brewer just caved in to public pressure after opponents of the bill<strike> &ldquo;made the bill about something it was not,&rdquo;</strike> immediately realized what it really was. </i>
Depends if Westboro is classed as a religious group or a hate group.
<i>Brewer&rsquo;s press aide, Andrew Wilder, said that staff had met with the bill&rsquo;s sponsors to discuss the bill&rsquo;s language, but that such meetings are fairly common and do not indicate an intention to support proposed legislation even after it has been modified.</i>
So, will staff also be meeting with sponsers of the bill to, say, force everyone to stand on their heads each Monday morning at 945am? Thought not you lying sack of shit...
But <i>I</i> thought the punchline was: ...you don&#039;t <i>feel</i> it.
I haven&#039;t seen Herrod this pissed since the end of their <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=3MH6efoYzJE" target="_blank">big dance number</a>.
My reading here is that Brewer and her staff had serious reservations about the bill and were trying to pare it down in advance as a hedge in the event that it did become law via an override of her possible veto (if she decided to do that). They may have wanted to get ahead of the bill in order to try to steer it in a direction that would minimize any political harm to themselves or the state. I suspect that they always thought that the bill was BS and not the kind of thing that the lege needed to be focusing on. Brewer is no doubt concerned about her legacy, which can be a powerful antipsychotic. She doesn&#039;t want to go down in history as a governor who presided over a decline in the state, or at least one who failed to address an ongoing decline. The strong negative reaction to the bill&#039;s passage may have been the final nail in the coffin, convincing her that there was no way that she could support it. The storm of protest also probably gave Brewer the kind of political cover that she needed to allow her to come out against the bill.
&quot; Brewer just caved in to public pressure&quot;
â« You don&#039;t need to be a sociopath to know which way the wind blows â«
Luxury!
(Hollerith cards, anyone?)
A horse&#039;s ass and a cow. Nice to see Cruz and Christie are getting along now.
Brewer was for the law before [Arizona business that underwrite the party] she was against it.
Making it illegal to change somebody&#039;s mind . . . don&#039;t go giving them ideas, OK?
A woman should not have to use saddle soap as a lubricant.
<i>&ldquo;made the bill about something it was not,&rdquo;</i>
Sorry, toots, but what it was is a glorious window into the glaring psychosexual issues that underlie the right-wing.
Even someone who needed a team of seeing eye dogs could have seen your true motives.
<i>Herrod is pretty sure that Brewer just caved in to public pressure after opponents of the bill<strike> &ldquo;made the bill about something it was not,&rdquo;</strike> immediately realized what it really was. </i>
Fixed, Herrod.