Jan Brewer

There are so many things to write about this week that I have been sitting here for 20 minutes trying to decide which one.  Let’s see.  There is the absolute fiasco which is the Republican Primary to determine who will be the challenger to President Obama.  We have the four stooges – Mitt, Newt, Paul and Santorum.  And that woman from Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer. 

For those of you not acquainted with Brewer, she is the one who got the bill passed in the Arizona (AZ) Legislature authorizing law enforcement to stop anyone they thought guilty of a minor infraction who might be an illegal immigrant from Mexico.  This, of course, in a state where there is a large population of American citizens of Mexican descent as well as Native Americans.  Now there is only one way to tell if someone “might” be an illegal immigrant from Mexico and that is by the color of their skin.  This, of course, is racial profiling and is illegal, but that didn’t stop AZ.  At the same time, she got the prison system in AZ privatized, and the corporations who now run the prisons are big donors to her campaigns.  Further, these corporations contract out the prisoners to corporations as very low paid workers to various other corporations.  This used to be known as slave labor, but in AZ and other states apparently it is now OK.  So there is a supply of prisoners to the private prisons who cannot strike, demand better working conditions, get medical care or other benefits.  What a bonanza for the corporations.

So, what brought her into the news this week is the episode at the AZ airport when President Obama went to Phoenix, AZ to give a speech.  She met him on the open tarmac, in front of his Secret Service detail, and I assume her security people as well, and all of the media with their cameras.  They had a verbal exchange of some sort, and she ended up with her finger in his face.  After this extreme rudeness, she had the temerity to state that she felt threatened by him.  Felt threatened?  Out in the open, with all sorts of security people there, and the media and their cameras?  What is wrong with that woman?  That was a racially charged statement.  She felt “threatened” by a black man.

I’ll tell you what is wrong!  She is a radical right wing Republican.  I’m not sure what her religion is, but it really doesn’t make any difference.  If she had any, it is defiled by racism because it has been superceded by her right-wing radicalism, which is obvious from the exchange with the President and her shaking her finger in his face, and her scorn for Americans of Mexican descent, and her wanting a steady stream of virtual slave labor for her corporate buddies.

Sometime take a look at her mouth when she is talking and take a good  look at her eyes.  In my opinion, there is pure maliciousness embodied there.  Not a pretty sight!  As a person I know, for whom I have great respect, and who lives in Tucson said of her.  “She is a total embarrassment for the state of Arizona.”