Take it from me, I live in Arizona. She should be given a fair trial for crimes against the state of Arizona and then promptly hung, like justice used to be in the old west.

Where do I start with Arizona? We had Ev Mecham (died recently so I won’t say anything bad, just factual) – who asked if the Pope, who visited the state back in the 1980s, spoke English and said that ‘pickaninny’ was an endearment. Ev was a successful used car salesman and a mormon. He was impeached, and the woman who cast the deciding vote – an african american state senator – was later convicted of taking huge stacks of cash bribes (as seen on video tape during a sting). She hated Ev and so made sure he paid. So did she.

Moving on, we had Rose Mofford, of the Beehive hairdo, who was Secretary of State, when Ev got impeached. Her claim to fame was the statement that “they” were using “lasers” (think Dr. Evil from Austin Powers for the quotes) to listen in to her conversations. Rose Mofford was a democrat.

Then we had an election (yippee!) and we got Fife Symington (commonly known as 3 sticks because he was not a sr., nor a jr, but a “III”). Fife got caught up in the 1st round of real estate bubbles in Arizona by inflating the worth of one property to borrow against it and buy another. That stack, when it came tumbling down, caught up with him and instead of being impeached, he resigned, something happened where he was found guilty but served house arrest, then the charges were dropped due to a technicality, and old Fife went to cooking school and became a chef.

Fife was replaced by Jane Hull, of the red hair, who was the Secretary of State, and she filled the remainder of Fife’s term, ran for election on her own, and got elected. Yippee. Not much happened during those 4 years which is a GOOD THING in drama ridden Arizona.

Then, came all those pesky transplant Californians who wanted out of the illegal aliens that no one held accountable, the business killing tax environment of the largest state in the union, and also, the cheap housing where someone selling a $400k home in California that was about 1200 sq. ft. could get a 5000 sq. ft. house for that amount.

For this migration, we got higher property taxes, more illegal immigration, and Janet Napolitano for governor.

The kindest thing I can thank Obama for is picking this beast for Homeland Security to get her out of the state and have Jan Brewer, Republican, take over.

Since ol’ Janet never stood up to La Raza and the judges, (we’re told that spending $5000 per student on english language training is NOT ENOUGH, and under court order to get more), told the Arizona National Guard who were under attack and being shot at that they could NOT return fire but merely get into their trucks and leave the area, I hold out no hope for this lawyer to do anything other than dither on homeland security.

The one bright hope is that the new alert about bioweapons or wmd’s hitting one of the cities in the USA by 2012, that is being talked about on Fox News Channel this morning, will show that Arizona is the key state where we are the super highway from Latin America to the USA.

Think Hugo Chavez and the Russians and Al-Qaeda don’t know this? Think Al-Qaeda is afraid of heat and the desert? They live in the driest part of the world so I can only hope that they come up through Phoenix, stop at the waffle house for breakfast, and then move on to other states to do their dirty work.

As we like to say to snowbirds who come for the warm winters:
Thanks for visiting, Janet. Now go away.

Just as an aside: if anyone thought that Arizona was a republican state need only do a search and find out that the majority of governors since Arizona became a state have been….DEMOCRATS.

Oh, and pay no attention to the two windowless vans that were driving up I-10 and using AK47s to shoot at each other over morning commuters so that the coyotes could be first to market with their commodity: human slaves. Where was Janet? She deferred to the Federal Gov’t since immigration is a federal issue.

Flex-ible

That’s what the NYT piece in my local paper called it.

Obama is being flexible about leaving Iraq and other campaign promises. He wasn’t lying through his teeth then and he’s not following that Bush status-quo now, he’s being “flexible.”

Sometimes change means being flexible enough to do things the way they’ve always been done before.

Come on guys, he’s not an honest commentator. Does anyone really believe that he gives his honest appraisal of anything as opposed to just saying whatever makes Republicans look good and Democrats look bad.

That’s fine for the political parties, that’s what they do, but we’re just citizens and I don’t see why we should give anything he has to say any particular weight. If Obama had just picked all new people do you think Rove would announce how pleased he was with his picks? Hell no,he would have claimed this is more proof that Obama is a radical.

I personally can not stand Hillary, but the idea in general of picking people with experience isn’t such a bad idea.

This is my first post to RedState, so please be gentle with me if you have comments.

I just finished reading the Politico piece comparing Obama’s speeches to Lincoln’s in which they pointed out that Obama strives to be like A. Lincoln by creating a “historic” presidency. They pointed out that Obama has been reading a lot of books on Lincoln lately, including Doris Kearns Goodwin’s recent biography, “Team of Rivals.” I am convinced that the “team of rivals” that Lincoln created with his cabinet is what Obama is attempting to emmulate. The problem with Obama is that he is NOT Lincoln, this is NOT 1860 and his rivals have their own best political interests in mind far above his or the best interests of this country. I finished Goodwin’s tomb about six months ago, and, while I disagree with some of her conclusions regarding Lincoln’s personal beliefs, she at least did a good job of clearing the air of the putrid stench of Gore Vidal’s hack job in which he insisted Lincoln had syphilis. One thing that struck me from her book was not just Lincoln’s ability to manage former rivals, but the great fortune that his chief political opponent in the Republican Party, William Seward, became one of his most loyal supporters and ardent allies. Forgive me the pessimism, but I highly doubt that Clinton will pay the same respect for Obama.