MARICOPA COUNTY
REPUBLICAN BRIEFS
RepComm@cox.net
June 29, 2010
ALERT: WRONG PARTY LISTING FOR NEW PC. Maricopa County Republican Committee Executive Director Tom Husband recently received the following e-mail message: “My wife changed her registration from Democrat to Republican during our P.C. Drive. She received her voter registration card # xxx7417 which listed her as Party: DEM! We called and when they looked it up that noted the ‘mistake’. While I do not normally look for skullduggery everywhere, here is a place I think it may happen if a certain clerk chooses to assign people to the Democrats. It may be worth checking out.”
If this has happened to anyone else, please let me know so that we can decide whether this was a random occurrence or is a matter that requires further investigation. Thomas F. Husband, Executive Director – Maricopa County Republican Committee H – 602-952-1790 C – 602-300-5651
President Bush was a big spender, but President Obama is taking profligacy to the next level. In his first year in office, Obama pushed through a pork-filled “stimulus” that was supposed to increase jobs and prosperity (at least according to the discredited Keynesian theory). Instead, the economy has been weak and unemployment increased. In his second year in office, Obama rammed through a giant new healthcare entitlement, in part based on the absurd claim that bigger government would reduce red ink (the Congressional Budget Office should be abolished for aiding and abetting that fraud). Now we just witnessed the amazing spectacle of Obama actually getting to the left of Europe’s socialist leaders and arguing with them at the G-20 summit that government spending should be even higher.
Unfortunately for taxpayers, government already is too big, and that is true on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This new Center for Freedom and Prosperity video explains that there is a spending version of the Laffer Curve, and that it shows that government is much larger than the “growth-maximizing” level. As shown in the mini-documentary, academic research reveals that government spending should consume only 20 percent of gross domestic product. Thanks to the Bush-Obama spending spree, however, total government spending in America now amounts to about 40 percent of economic output.
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen (D) signed a bill yesterday that creates provisions similar to, but less harsh than, those of SB 1070, including requiring city and county jails in the state to report any person who may be in violation of immigration laws to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A decision that follows recent state and local crackdowns on undocumented immigration — particularly Arizona’s SB 1070 and a Nebraska town’s vote to limit job and housing opportunities to undocumented immigrants — Bredesen’s vote for Tennessee’s House bill 670 isn’t surprising.
A Nashville Public Radio article also points out that a recent poll claims most Tennesseans favor laws like the ones House bill 670 puts into place.
“When Tennesseans were asked if they would support a law like Arizona’s, 60 percent said yes,” writes Emily Tseng of Nashville Public Radio. “Then, pollsters asked about a key provision of the law, whether police should be required to check the immigration status of a suspected illegal immigrant they’ve stopped. When Arizona wasn’t mentioned, support jumped to 79 percent.”
From moonbattery.com .
Predictably, some members of the gun-grabbing left are in hysterics over the SCOTUS Second Amendment decision.
People will die because of this decision. It is a victory only for the gun lobby and America’s fading firearms industry. The inevitable tide of frivolous pro-gun litigation destined to follow will force cities, counties, and states to expend scarce resources to defend longstanding, effective public safety laws. The gun lobby and gunmakers are seeking nothing less than the complete dismantling of our nation’s gun laws in a cynical effort to try and stem the long-term drop in gun ownership and save the dwindling gun industry. The 30,000 lives claimed annually by gun violence and the families destroyed in the wake of mass shootings and murder-suicides mean little to the gun lobby and the firearm manufacturers it protects. – Violence Policy Center
Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! My-yummy! Mm-yummy
And at the Puffington Host…
The Bill of Rights guarantees a right to bear “arms”. Probably legs, hands and feet too. If it guarantees the right to carry a gun, then why can’t I drive a tank down the street? Why can’t I have a loaded cannon in my front yard? Why can’t I deply private nuclear weapons? Isn’t that guaranteed in the second ammendment? What’s the difference? They all kill. They are all effective in the persuit of “self defense” These gun lovers have no interest in self defense. If they did they would rely on the fists God gave them and not on firepower designed to kill. – Huffington Post “Superposter” spiegelp
And the critic who thought The Phantom Menace was an awesome movie says…
“At Least 29 Shot In Chicago Over The Weekend.” It’s the fault of our damn unconstitutional gun laws. – Roger Ebert
Technically, he’s correct.
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/06/morning-briefs-195.html
Secure the border and a healthy debate might follow.
The bandits in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” never said this famous line, not at least in the condensed way it’s so often quoted. But the sentiment—disdain for law enforcement and the rule of law—is clear. And it happens to be the same sentiment behind the kneejerk opposition to the Arizona immigration law, which this week may elicit a legal challenge from the Justice Department.
In this, the authors of the law were clever. They knew their law was no solution to the federal government’s failures on immigration. They also knew—perhaps hoped—that the law would be challenged constitutionally, and that this challenge would likely end up in the Supreme Court.
But they knew something else: By writing it the way they did, they would smoke out the “no badges” brigade—those who effectively oppose real enforcement of any immigration law.
That’s because at its core, the Arizona law adds nothing to immigration law. To the contrary, it empowers Arizona police to do their part to uphold that law when they have a “reasonable suspicion” that someone whom they’ve stopped for some other law enforcement reason is in the country illegally. On top of this, legislators added language to prohibit using racial profiling to make such a stop.
The response has been illuminating. In Mexico, President Felipe Calderón declared that the Arizona law opened the door to “intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement.” In the ranks of Congress, members variously invoked—take your pick—”Jim Crow,” “apartheid” and “Nazi Germany.”
Read the rest.
