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Jan Brewer To Fox & Friends: Senate Immigration Hearing Is A ‘Publicity Stunt’

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has been invited to the White House for a national meeting of governors, and given her last interaction with President Barack Obama, many are reasonably wondering whether that exchange will be as contentious as the last, and whether she will play nice with the Washington powers that be after refusing to testify about immigration law before Congress. Gov. Brewer visited the crew at Fox & Friends this morning to discuss these and more issues, noting she didn’t expect any one-on-one time with the President and explaining why she won’t testify: “[Sen. Chuck Schumer] invited me to the party a little late.”

RELATED: Melissa Harris-Perry: Image Of Brewer And Obama Reminds Me Of Civil Rights Era Photo

Gov. Brewer told host Alisyn Camerota that she did not expect to speak one on one with the President given that it was a meeting of governors, but also did not seem to expect too much to come out of it, saying they would likely discuss “more what he wants to talk about than what we want to talk about.” Camerota then asked about Sen. Schumer’s invitation to her to testify before the Senate on immigration legislation and what she believed the problems to solve were, an invitation Gov. Brewer declined.

“He’s invited me to the party a little late,” Gov. Brewer joked, “we’re going to hear from the Supreme Court in April.” As the issue was already in the courts, Brewer argued that the entire operation was “more or less a publicity stunt and self-serving,” and she simply didn’t have the time.

Camerota also asked Gov. Brewer whether she planned to endorse a Republican candidate. Gov. Brewer coyly answered in the affirmative, but refused to say who until Monday. “I’m still thinking,” she noted.

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  • The Big Glovebowski

    Smart, Governor. Schumer is not to be trusted.

  • Anonymous

    This leatherfaced turkeyneck knows alot about publicity stunts!!!

  • Anonymous

    Jan looks a bit less haggard in that screen capture. Maybe she has her smoking down to two packs a day.

  • Anonymous

    Wait. She is so concerned about immigration policy that she is refusing to to testify to the Senate in an open and televised hearing? It is that important to her that she is intentionally passing up an opportunity to get on the record about it?

    More of the usual jibber-jabber to avoid actually accomplishing anything when there is the chance for pointless partisan rancor.

  • The Big Glovebowski

    Meanwhile, in another part of town : Outrages every day, that’s the Chicago way.

    “Democratic governors discuss bypassing Congress with Obama”

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/212517-democratic-governors-discuss-bypassing-congress-with-obama?utm_campaign=briefingroom&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterfeed

  • Anonymous

    she is on the record, by the bill she signed, which is going to the supreme court

  • Anonymous

    Halloween is over girl , take the scarecrow mask off.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

     Because it’s a waste of time and she would have to put up with asshole Democrats calling her a racist. Besides, Jan Brewer is the governor of Arizona, she doesn’t have time to play in the DC swamp. Let elected senators and representatives dish it out among themselves, in the meantime, States can do their best to enforce immigration laws.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • Anonymous

    That is not the same as taking the opportunity to make her case to the US Senate and you know it. If she feels that strongly about it then she would leap at the chance to get into the record. But, rather than do what governors have done for decades and decades, she goes with the partisan rancor.

    As to the Supreme Court case, that only makes it even more baffling over why she is not testifying. The case is one based on whether or not the Constitution reserves all immigration policy to the federal government. Any governor faced with that would want to testify to Congress (even these useless dolts) so her state’s position is on the record of these hearings.

    The whole “she went on the record when she signed the bill,” dodge is just that. A dodge to hide her cowardice and loyalty to party over the people of Arizona. She is dodging an opportunity to defend the law and push for it because she was, “invited a little late to the party.”

    Reminds me of Newt refusing to negotiate and shutting down the government over a bad seat on Air Force One.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah yeah. And Eric Cantor wanted to have bills become law on a House vote only without the Senate and without the president.

    All talk and that is just what it is.

  • Anonymous

    So you admit she is a coward and afraid of being called names?

    Then she should quit her job and let someone with the courage of their convictions take over. If she is so afraid of being called names, then she is in the wrong job. Playing in the “DC Swamp” is part of her job. It is part of every governor’s job to work with the federal government. She is bluntly refusing to do her job to avoid being criticized. Coward.

    By the way, the states cannot create (as Arizona did) or enforce immigration law. It is reserved to the federal government. Read the Constitution clearly. That is the entire point of this Supreme Court case.

    Also, facts: More deportations in the last 3 years than ever, fewer illegal crossings and more border patrol and resources than ever.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Great article, thanks.

    The Democratic governors discussed the three major job goals from
    Obama’s State of the Union address: building manufacturing, training
    workers and increasing American-made energy.

    “We had a great
    conversation very focused, not surprisingly, on jobs,” Markell said,
    calling jobs the “biggest issue for all of us in the room, no matter
    where we come from.”

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     States rights are a great thing except when Dems do it, huh?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What a shame she won’t testify. She is simply brilliant. As you may know, her father dies fighting the Nazis in Nevada in 1954 and the Arizona desert is filled with scorched skulls of people killed by Mexicans.

  • Jardino

    Is that a comb over?

  • http://twitter.com/weench165 NewYorker

    I couldn’t have said it better myself Billy!

  • Anonymous

    why does she need to defend the law to congress? and push for it with who? congress?  its a supreme court case now that is where it will played, out not the senate. and do you reallly believe schumer is on the up and up?

  • Anonymous

    She is just a bigot in a state full of scorpions and snakes
    In a desert where everything is death Left several years ago never to go back No desire to become a plum

  • Anonymous

    This is not about Schumer. It is about Brewer.  For the record, Schumer is no better than the rest of Congress – both sides. However, that does not change anything.

    It is her job to defend the laws she signs to Congress, the courts and the media. It is her job to try to push for a federal version that will alleviate the Constitutional challenge. It is not her job to go with all this partisan nonsense.

    Her absence will be read as her disinterest in defending the law. It is a dereliction of her duty and her oath of office.

  • Anonymous

    she has, congress did nothing so arizona passed its own law, now they say jump and she is supposed  to say how high, i think not

  • Anonymous

    After all, who would know more about cheap publicity stunts than Jan “headless bodies in the desert, my father was killed by the Nazis, finger pointing” Brewer.

  • Anonymous

    Not a bigot in the least. You obviously have no understanding of what she’s up against in that region.

  • Anonymous

    How do you even know she smokes?

  • Anonymous

    You couldn’t have said it worse either.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve got it all wrong. Arizona’s law has nothing in it that’s not also part of the federal law, and in fact doesn’t even go as far. And as for your last statement, I can only say thank God for small favors!

  • Anonymous

    Funny. Is that all you can say?

  • Anonymous

    Whenever I look at her face, I can’t help but to think that she should be the one they call “Mitt”. Someone is going to mistakenly think she wants to play catch with them & throw a baseball at her face one day. Should call her governor Rawlings or Wilson.

  • Anonymous

    Eating scorpions for breakfast is obviously not good for the skin. She seriously looks like she’s got elephantiasis in the face. She would make a good Jersey Housewife.

  • Dave Francis

     

    ILLEGAL ALIEN UNFUNDED MANDATES

    The term illegal immigration is so controversial now, that
    infiltrates every person’s life, especially when it comes to taxes and this
    painful economy. That’s one of the reasons I don’t want to pay my taxes, even
    though there is always the chance of getting audited? When I mail my return
    every April, I get so angry at the situation that I must support with my taxes,
    people who steal into this country, which is less for my family.   Because
    of these unfunded mandates that taxpayers are forced to pay which the courts
    have determined to be applicable. I read in my daily observance
    of critical news reports in the Google) http://www.americanpatrol.com
    online, the suppressed media articles that the Leftist Press prefers you do not
    read. One news brief caught my eye about the U.S. Border Patrol, wandering the
    lengthy corridors of hospitals including the University of Arizona Medical
    Center (UMC).

     

    Oh! Yes! Illegal aliens are leaving certain states and
    heading for less restrictive states, where Sanctuary cities like Los Angeles,(CA)
     New Haven, (CT) Denver (CO), Las Vegas (NV),
     San Francisco (CA), Austin (TX) and
    approximately 69 other refuge areas, that admonish ICE?

     

    Are they looking out for women, who are ready to conceive;
    that I don’t know? What I do know however, pregnant women intentionally
    cross the U.S. border so they can deliberately take advantage of the 1965
    immigration Act. Babies born to illegal alien mothers within U.S. borders are
    called “anchor
    babies” because
    under the law as an illegal entrant, it pulls the illegal alien mother and
    eventually a host of other relatives into permanent U.S. residency. First stop
    on their route into America is by 49 % who mislead the Immigration agent at the
    air terminal that they are just regular tourist or by 300 thousand plus flooding
    the country across the Southern border, heading directly to the nearest
    delivery room. Arizona, Texas, California are cursed with this ominous cycle
    and I am sure New Mexico suffers as well. Approximately 67 hospitals have gone
    bankrupt in border cities because of these unfunded mandates. The whole issue
    to be answered is that while illegal alien women go directly to these hospitals
    and pay nothing at all for delivery, while the American citizen–legal resident
    has no such loophole and is hounded by the debt collectors and even the courts.
    Having a baby costs hospitals, which is a unfunded mandate and eventually is
    paid by taxpayers.

     

    The cost for a baby delivery ranges today around $6.000 to
    $8.000 dollars, unless there is no problem with the birth.  These are stigmata that Arizona who lead the
    charge against this government unfunded mandates, that hospitals costs must be
    absorbed or passed on to taxpayers. Alabama, Georgia, Utah, Indiana and South
    Carolina have been emasculated by these unfunded mandates, which include
    schooling to K-12 for illegal migrant and immigrant children, the emergency
    rooms crowded with foreign national families. Welfare programs are the
    epicenter for these people, as they now to work the system. The left say
    illegal aliens get food stamps, but the children do because of a mishandled law
    by the courts, have made it mandatory. Having four instant citizenship children
    is not only a nice handful of food stamps, but cash payments as well. I think
    Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul on the Republican
    ticket, as the cost is substantial. Take a few minutes and read the oscillating
    grades of the candidates for the White House at (Google) http://www.numbersusa.com By now most Americans
    who read the Conservative press, are aware that federal and state dish out over
    $113 Billion dollars a year to foreigners. 
    Yet anybody who dares to speak up is a bigot or racist. So the politicians
    who have no backbone and are anxious about campaign contributions, stay silent.

     

    “The Legal
    Workforce Act (H.R.2885) mandatory E-Verify will heavily punish businesses for
    hiring illegal aliens, who are stealing jobs from the majority of low income labor.
    Second in line of value is the “Birthright Citizenship Bill (H.R.140) that by
    an Amendment, will prevent the welfare abundance of public welfare check
    assistance to the illegal parent of a child smuggled or already here, if
    neither parent is a U.S. Citizen. These are bills that must be passed,
    specifically the Birthright Citizenship Bill, as it will contain the unfair
    privilege, given to illegal alien mothers smuggling their unborn into American
    for undeserved citizenship and then applying for handouts.

     

    Does anybody
    have legitimate excuses for the numbers of American contractors, who have lost
    their businesses, because their occupational competition has used illegal
    immigrants at a lower bidding price for jobs? Across the country hundreds of
    thousands of small businesses have lost their incomes, because in residential
    construction, such as roofers, drywall installers, painter’s even electricians
    have used this type of cheap labor?  Eventually
    unable to compete they have even been forced to drop their lawful workers, or
    make the painful decision of looking for day laborers or lesser skilled foreigners?
    An awful “Catch 22” situation by years of neglect to enforce immigration laws
    by uninterested administrations. Farmers and other industries have legally
    hired, guest workers, but what the general public is unaware of they pay
    nothing towards hospital visits or the children’s education. That again, is a
    financial taxpayer’s weight to contend with. States get nothing for these
    unfunded mandates, as it is a dollar seed that is still growing.

     

    Every taxpaying American is complaining about both parties
    in Congress, but those same people cannot find a few minutes to contact their
    Senators or Congress persons at 202-224-3121 and demand the vote for both
    federal MANDATORY E-Verify or amend the ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Bill. Once enacted
    into law a massive exodus will begin, as illegal aliens and family members will
    return to their country of origin unable to find a job; perhaps find it even
    more difficult to live a normal life, without looking over their shoulders for
    ICE agents?

     

    Link to a chapter of your local TEA PARTY. Bring to a halt
    this financial fiasco, by giving away taxpayers money to subsidize illegal
    aliens?  Only the TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP
    has the moral fiber to shred the current tax code and provide a fair and
    equitable tax system, without any loopholes for anybody. Every possible means
    available currently and in the future will be utilized to secure our borders,
    to halt Sanctuary Cities, Chain Migration. The TEA PARTY will adopt a regulated
    Guest Worker program, without a path to citizenship. It is solely the
    obligation of every American voter to check for non citizens registering for
    all future elections and inform the authorities. That every person voting must
    display official Picture ID, as there has been progressive voting by non
    citizens.  The laws of the 1986
    Immigration Reform & Control Act (IRCA) will be reanimated as original was
    to work. Sanctuary Cities will be banned and official who subscribe to any
    ordinance protecting illegal aliens will be sanctioned every possible means
    will be used to remove illegal aliens from this country and benefits stopped.
    Illegal aliens will be prosecuted for using stolen ID, including Social
    Security numbers and birth records. 

     

    All Americans must insure that every voter is checked
    against their official picture ID. Non citizens have been voting and will
    again, with the Democratic-Liberal aid such as ACORN, including illegal
    aliens.  Those who believe in the
    principles of the U.S. Constitution and Conservative must be vigilant of
    absentee
    ballot fraud and voter registrations. With the hefty consequences of
    illegal aliens voting in all elections, such as Arizona, it is
    imperative that elections have oversight and every person voting either
    through absentee ballots or voting precincts be on their guard.
     

  • Anonymous

    Well I lived in Arizona for years so I know about bigotry in there, that is why we left. Keep it to yourselves. Pls leave the Union

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    The President of Mexico isn’t a woman. Otherwise I agree.

  • Anonymous

    Please leave the Union? That made a lot of sense. Why don’t you leave the Union if you can’t handle disagreement?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RKLFFXBQV4Z3EL2WBZQ2CAPMC4 Jim

    We hold truths to be self-evident. That doesn’t mean taking it on the chin until the Feds “officially” get around to fixing things. As long as the Dems feel illegals are new Dems they’ll continue to allow illegal foreign nationals in. You have to be an idiot to not see it. If they were all Reps suddenly state rights would look awfully good.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

     It seems you can’t handle the truth.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

     You would not have said it at all!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

     How do you know she doesn’t?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

     You don’t read much do you?

  • Anonymous

    You said I can’t handle the truth. Try me.

  • Anonymous

    You have a way of replying to my posts without saying a damn thing. Do you have a brain?

  • Marsan Magia

    Snarky comments just shows how ignorant and afraid you really are.  Come on, what would you do in her republican stance?  This is not about skincare!  Stay on topic.

  • Marsan Magia

    Would you like her better if she had plastic surgery like Joe Biden?  Just saying…being as this is an attack on skin care not the issues.

  • Marsan Magia

    There’s always a snarky troll in the sand of Florida…outside of snark, how do you really feel about the issues?

  • http://twitter.com/Wallycrawler Wallycrawler

    What a turd this peice’o'shit is! She’s da “ringworm” of crap!

  • Marsan Magia

    Another Skincare Beauty Troll, just saying….

  • Marsan Magia

    With a name like Jardino, is that a hedge on your part?

  • News Of The World

    She won’t testify because she is a bumbling buffoon.  Her handlers keep her away from microphones as much as possible.  She has a tendency to sound like a stuttering hillbilly when she attempts to speak.

  • Anonymous

    Again, non-responsive. If you have something to say, why are you so afraid to say it?

  • Verreauxii

    She was afraid of her customary brain-lock in front of cameras.

  • Anonymous

    We are talking about the heavy smoker Gov Brewer. What Mexico has to do with this

  • Hout Bosques

    She’s trying to exploit an opening that the GOPers have been actively trying to develop ever since Watergate: that Congressional investigations are purely political exercises in Kabuki theater. That fact suited the GOP fine during the McCarthy era, but every once in while Congressional hearings actually work, & whenever they do that, invariably they end up hurting the winger cause. This entire Congressional session’s worth of House hearings has been nothing but a clownification of the hearing process, & that’s what allows an incompetent brain-damaged winger tool like Brewer to be able to try to exploit this opportunity.

  • Hout Bosques

    What she’s “up against” is a rapidly changing demographic. Nothing she or her fellow wingers will do is going to stop that trend over the long run, but what’s going on these days in deeply divided Arizona is increasing the chances of it coming to violence. This is completely within the pattern for rapid social change that old white establishment types resist; South Africa was more in the rule than constituting any exception.

  • Hout Bosques

    Nonsense. The Congressional GOP caucuses stated their goal a long time ago: to defeat this president – & what they’re doing to that end is called nullification. Faced with nullification, people that actually believe in the oath of office they’ve given have a duty to try to keep government of the people working for the people, & these state governors are pressing the president to explore ways of doing that until the next Congress. This is entirely justified by the GOP’s nullification policy.

  • Hout Bosques

    ‘ Gov. Brewer coyly answered in the affirmative, but refused to say who until Monday. “I’m still thinking,” she noted. ‘ 
    She hasn’t been told yet. The folks that run the Arizona state GOP will tell her “Romney”, & then have her repeat it & repeat it & repeat, so many times that I would put the odds at 3:2 she says “Romney” rather than “Goldwater” – & then they’ll pray.  

    BTW she’s as usual full of shit on the talking point about opportunism. Congress does not have the power to force her to attend & testify at a Congressional hearing, so really the only time that a Congress critter has to invite a governor to come & testify is during the national governors’ conferences when they’re held in the D.C. area. She’s of course right to turn down the invitation because she has no facts to back up the Arizona law, which is one of the main USG positions on that law: that it’s restrictions on people’s liberties have no basis in evidence; she also knows – or her handlers have directed her, at least – that her agreeing to attend would only hurt their cause.  

    BTW 2 – has anyone else noticed this consistent meme from GOP governors that they’ve “turned it around” & “fixed the problems with the state”? They all say it: Nikki Haley, Snyder, Walker, all of them. It’s all marketing, no truth in it at all. The South Carolina state bureaucracy is required to answer the phone: It’s a great day in South Carolina; this is pretty much the same thing. Unfortunately, since the vast majority of voters are neither curious nor informed, the GOP governors don’t get called on this line of b.s. It’s only when a Dem governor gets elected that there’s any chance that a state’s governor will level with the voters about how bad things are. But that’s the beauty of the GOP election model: just saying things makes them true, as in truly believed to be true; I’m even prepared to concede that Governor Brewer believes her own bullshit.

  • Anonymous

    She’s up against illegal alien parasites crossing the boarder daily bring with them drugs, disease, and a culture that can’t support itself in Mexico so they sneak across the border like the thieves they are and suck at the taxpayer trough. That White culture you clowns like to run down built this country. What I see happening to the states with high illegal alien parasite numbers is a dramatic rise in crime, disease, and an economic burden no state should have to endure.
    Next time you try to think….DON’T!

  • Anonymous

    Would that be the winger cause that is trying to find out why this morbidly stupid government allowed guns to reach drug dealers? Could that winger group be trying to stop 1/5 of all illegal alien tresspassing from accuring in their state. Why aren’t you aking that brain damaged clown Eric Holder and his Bitch Obimbo how over 2,000 guns made their way into Mexico!

  • Anonymous

    Ya, it’s always a stunt when an elected official actually tries to do their job. Too damned bad we don’t have one of the publicity-stunt officials in the White House. Arizona got a leader, we got Erckle!  

  • Anonymous

    It shouldn’t have been said in the first place.

  • Anonymous

    Is that what your worried about, her smoking? A whole myriad of problems exist in Arizona because of illegal alien parasites, and your worried about smoking. I’ll bet you voted for Obimbo didn’t you?!

  • Anonymous

    Who the hell cares!!

  • Anonymous

    I guess if there is one thing Jan Brewer knows, it’s publicity stunts. 

  • Anonymous

    So your suggestion is to let Mexico annex Arizona? The trend is for illegal immigrants to occupy the state. Your suggestion to look the other way is the exact reasons and policies that have allowed for the situation to get to where it is today.

    But go ahead and keep blaming the actual citizens(those “old white establishment” types- although I haven’t really met too many of those from AZ) of the state who are fed up with their tax dollars supporting people who don’t even have the right to vote in this country.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t say much do you.

  • Anonymous

    You must have lived in a hole in the ground, JERK.

  • Anonymous

    Well apparently you’re wrong about stopping that “rapidly changing demographic” because ever since Arizona passed SB1070 the number of illegal aliens has diminished. The same thing has happened in Alabama, which passed a similar law. Not only has the number of illegals gone down, but the unemployment rate has as well, now that Americans are taking back the jobs that everyone was saying they wouldn’t take.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you. You are a blessings to us
    Probably highly educated

    Good by

  • Anonymous

    Your poison rhetoric and name calling totally discount any
    point you were trying to make. Intelligent discussion is what is
    required to exchange differences in opinions.

  • Anonymous

    Wrong! The goal of the opposition party [Rebs]is not to shut down the gov’t to 
    sabotage the President but to provide excellent alternatives that will cause people to support your cause. A ‘do nothing’ congress is not what the american people 
    want and they made that very clear on the proposed tax cuts. The Rebs party 
    hurt themselves and then came post xmas and joined in passing the bill. 
    Working to-gether and compromise is what is needed now.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

     Pure GENIUS! RIGHT THERE!

    The TEA PARTY will adopt a regulated
    Guest Worker program, without a path to citizenship.

    Are you saying that indeed Mexican laborers are needed to do those jobs ‘murkans won’t do?
    Just how are you teabagged going to keep them guest workers from straying off the concentration camp? Will they have to pass an English test to qualify for the program? Where are they going to eat? Who is going to provide them clothing?
    Will they have the same protections as other workers, ie, minimum wage, overtime pay, treatment for on the job injuries? Will States forbid marriages between citizens and guest workers?

    Please teabaggeds, tell us you want to set up another Big Bad Gubimmint agency… better yet, outsource it to the private sector, then watch the magic of capitalism at work…

  • Just Another Blowhard

     Do you have stats to back that up?  I would like to see your sources.  I find it odd that a state that has always had a high population of Latinos (considering 150 years ago it WAS Mexico), would all of a sudden have a huge spike in them.  I also find it odd and ironic that the state with the most reservations and the highest Native American population would lead the battle against illegal immigration.  

  • Just Another Blowhard

     Do you have stats to back this up? 

  • Anonymous

    Who first used the term “winger”? That’s not name calling?

  • Anonymous

    I have a question for you professor. Why do you have spaces between your paragraphs big enough to drive a truck through? Makes trying to read any points you might want to make more difficult and doubly hard to keep any kind of thread going. Did you require a plain white sheet between each page your students turned in? After the third paragraph- I quit trying to read it because you succeeded in aggravating me.

  • Anonymous

    HEY JAN …. IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO THE DINNER, COULD YOU TAKE THE TIME TO CONTACT THE ” BIRTHER ” ORGANIZATION THERE IN WASHINGTON AND ASK THEM TO VERIFY THE CITIZENSHIP OF BOTH SANTORUM (FATHER FROM ITALY) AND ALSO CHECK ON ROMNEY (FATHER FROM MEXICO). I THINK THEY MIGHT HAVE COME HERE ILLEGALLY. PLEASE GET ORIGINAL CERTICATES TO SAVE US ALL A LOT OF TIME WHEN WE DEAL WITH THE ELECTION.

  • Anonymous

    She is but another Republican stench in the nostrils of the word, “decency.”

  • Just Another Blowhard

    Can anybody please tell me why the states that boarder Canada (there are a lot more of them) don’t have the same immigration policies as this one (out of four) state has that boarders Mexico?  Please explain why Canadian immigrants are not a problem. I am just curious because when I hear about immigration problems, it is always seems to target Latinos.  I am just curious why that is.

  • Mari Johnson

     All she ever does is whine and scowl.  It hurts my eyes to watch her on TV!

  • Anonymous

    theres nothing in the constitution that sez that the president has the power to enforce immigration yet he and his so called staff twist it whatever is convient at the moment
    and theres nothing that says that arizona cant make and enforce its own law . it has in the case of the employers bill which the supreme court has determined to be constittutional
    theres nothing saying that congress and the fed are the only ones that can make and enforce
    the law
    just like the volunteer force that arizona is talking about forming paying each volunteer a 100/ day stipend
    nice to see the strykers on the border to

  • Anonymous

    If Brewer hadn’t already succeeded in proving herself a racist, she surely did after her staged encounter with the president. Her “scary black man” horse pucky was nothing if not racist. I hope Arizona continues to loose business until she is removed from office.

  • Anonymous

    Could it be that Canadians maybe think that Canada is a better country than America?
    Or could it be that Canadians do not need to immigrat to America because they are just as rich and dynamic as America. 
    Or could it be there are thousands of illegal Canadians in America but Americans can’t tell the difference between American and Canadians.
    But because America has become such a wuss about its border Canadians will begin to invade America like the Mexicans and in seven years, their children will automatically become Americans because they were born in America..
    Or perhaps, you can fill in other reasons, I’m sure your are smart enough to figure it out!

  • Anonymous

    Seems to me you should know how that happened, by now. It was allover the news for several weeks. It was a plot gone wrong. Sometimes they do that. I’m sure the justice dept woud like that not to happen, but it does.

  • Anonymous

    Every time Jan Brewer is put on the spot and out in the spotlight my respect and admiration for her grows.  This woman has endured more injustice at the hands of this administration than any other governor. 

    I give her credit for responding in the negative to Schumer’s thinly veiled set-up.  Had I been in her place I could not have dignified his invitation (aka trap) which was nothing more than one more tactic to satisfy his immature and insatiable desire for attention.  Collectively, Obama and Schumer do not have as much integrity, dignity, and intelligence as Jan Brewer has in her little finger. 

  • Anonymous

    I can smell the gin on her breath from here.

  • Anonymous

    Eons ago,when I frequented such establishments,this Gov.appears to be the “road hard and put away wet” female sitting at the end of a dimly lit bar puffing a Pall Mall 100 with a half full glass of scotch, asking me what time is it honey?

  • Anonymous

    Except that they weren’t “working together and comprimising” but avoiding the bad publicity they got and the potential loss of votes!

  • Anonymous

    In response to your post about “winger” being name calling. It is not. Right wing or Left wing is equal to use. One can use winger in equal referance to the left. As opposed to “brain damaged” “bitch” “libtard” “repuglican” etc.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    That is the brand new Obamabot immigration talking point this week…Let me help you out there. since I live near the Canadian border.

    ICE is ALL OVER the Canadian border, for an Illegal (or even legal Mexican) immigrant to step outside or drive there car is to risk immediate deportation. For 3 years now the ICE has been inspecting ID’s of anyone looking Hispanic, whole buses get stopped fo profiling checks.

    The reason there is no fence or outcry is the lack of gang violence including wholesale murder.

    The reason ICE is all up on Canadas border is so Obama and Napolitano can keep screaming that DEPORTATIONS ARE UP.

  • Just Another Blowhard

    Do you have stats to back your points up?

  • Just Another Blowhard

    a few points…

    How is it that there is an influx of Hispanic immigrants coming from north of the boarder???

    Crime is down in all areas in Arizona, from its peak in the late 1960/early 1970s.

  • http://twitter.com/aggsveprogressv AgressiveProgressive

    But sticking your ugly boney finger in the President’s face isn’t a publicity stunt to boost your book’s amazon ratings/sales.

  • Anonymous

    Is it true they found her at the SPCA?  She’s one ugly mutt.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Not at all, I find “paper checks” to be unamerican and very nazi-like. Of course once someone is ARRESTED I have no problem with papaer check..

    I do find it very dishonest of Obama, Napolitano and the feds to claim to be against theses things, as in Arizonas case, while simultaeneously employing them for political reasons.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Maybe Holder could throw us us wingers a bone and find someone to fire…Maybe pretend to do his job just once….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

     You forgot teabagger

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    My suggestion is for Texas, New Mexico and Arizon seccede from the Union and build walls on their northern border to keep the muslim lovin freedom hater scumbag union liberals out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    If this communistinfiltration succeeds leaving the union it may come too. Texas could easily become one of the strongest nations in the world on its own,

  • Anonymous

    Of course, Numbnuts, you never could figure out why YOU were
    the LAST male left in the bar. You IDIOT!!!!!

  • Pablo

    The demographic isn’t the problem. The lawlessness is the problem.

  • Pablo

    The issue is sitting in the Supreme Court. Schumer isn’t going to do a damn thing about it. 

  • Pablo

     The Senate isn’t suing her. Obama is.

  • Pablo

     WHAT??? Since when is a Governor accountable to Congress for their State’s laws?

  • Pablo

     Disqus does that and all kinds of other goofy things with pasted text. It’s nice to go back in and clean it up after it’s been posted.

  • Pablo

    Right, which is why she’s doing a national interview here. Idiot.

  • Anonymous

    To just another blowhard, I’ve been reading Brewer’s book.  Only part way through, so I reserved judgement on the whole but one thing that I noticed that was striking was her discussing the partial border walls that were placed in CA and Texas some years ago.  Can’t get over the wall there, so the illegals were now being funneled to the area without one…Arizona.  That alone could explain a spike.  She also discussed how it used to be that it was just groups of poor folks looking for work.  Now they’re dealing with drug cartel behavior, human smuggling, murders of residents who live on the border, etc.

    I’m always one to make up my own mind, but so far, I’m not seeing ‘bigotry’ as her motivation.  I also find it funny that Janet Napolitano was a big anti illegal advocate when she was AZ’s governor.  Had a big fat fake invoice for Uncle Sam that she used to speak with when complaining that the fed’s owed AZ this cash for doing THEIR job…And now she’s an apologist for the Obama Administration as the head of Homeland Security.

  • Anonymous

    A drop in the bucket compared to the serious issues down there.  People getting murdered on the border for just living on their own land, places where you are advised not to go in America because of the insertion of the drug cartels.

    Throwing a couple of cops down there is not going to do the job.  It’s like saying ‘hey hire five more cops! It looks like we’re doing our part’ for a city overrun by gang activity. 

    It’s a photo op, not a solution.

  • Anonymous

    Schumer just wants sounds bites of angry democrats calling her a bigot for this election cycle.  To remind people that they think that Reps and Brewer are anti immigrant and every other BS trumped up charges that they can to revive anti-conservative sentiment in order to get people riled up and to the polls in November.  And if you think otherwise, you’re as naive as the day is long. 

    One this is for sure, this isn’t Brewer’s first rodeo when it comes to this debate. The left taught her well the first time around.  And she’s only letting them know that she’s not a moron.   She’s going to be leaving this one to the courts, and well she should.  The only thing that is going to happen in DC is political grandstanding for the cameras.

    And as to not participating, AZ and the other border states have been crying for federal assistance and asking them to do their jobs for decades without much response.  The only people not ‘participating’ were the feds, whose job to secure our borders have been neglected as long as I’ve been alive and longer.   Yeah, only now when they need those soundbites for political ads.  It’s so obvious it’s laughable.

  • Anonymous

    I’d rather comment on the dumb blonde Alisyn Camerota.  For the life of me, why does Fox keep this low skilled news reader on the air.  She is by far the worst of the worst media person on any station.  She is just totally unprepared and uninformed and constantly complains about having to work and take care of her kids.

    I’ve complained many times to Fox management and I get nothing.  With this woman on board, she really dumbs down the conversations to less than and 8th grade level.  When she is on with those two young guys, she embarrasses herself all the time.

    I’m looking for those who agree with me that she has got to go.  I would put Harris Faulkner on any time before Alisyn.  She’s beyond annoying.  I just turn Fox off when she is on. 

  • Ben

    I’ll take that bet…
    Gretchen Carlson is dumber.

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes an extreme issue needs extreme rhetoric. Like when an inept doofus like Eric Holder, appointed by, “I don’t know, don’t ask me, it was the other guy, Obimbo”, who appointed this jerk to a position neither he, nor the inept clown that appointed him can defend.
    There is a myriad of problems in Arizona that this governor and the legal citizens of that state face everyday without the help of a government that’s first obligation is to protect our borders and the citizens of this country. As far as I’m concerned there is no amount of harsh language that shouldn’t be used to describe the unbelievable amount of gross-negligence this idiot president and his administration have demonstrated for the past 3-years.

  • Anonymous

    LOL!

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of turning the channel.  It’s not just annoying, it’s painful to watch so I don’t.

  • Anonymous

    A plot gone wrong? When your own officers are telling you that the plot is wrong and will backfire, and as a result an American lost his life, you think it’s just a plot gone wrong?! This amounts to gross-negligence bordering on criminal!!

  • Anonymous

    Ouch!!!!!   Good one.  Republicans love to brag about their hot women, well, have at her!!!!

  • Anonymous

    And, the problem with that is…what?

  • Anonymous

    “The Tea-Party will adopt a guest-worker program without a path to citizenship”.

    I’m in full agreement with that statement.

  • Anonymous

    The problem is that they voted not for what was best for the country but
    what was best for them politically.The public turned on them and they
    backtracked to save face.

  • Anonymous

    For caconservative. There are many ways to strongly
    show your disagreement without resorting to childish
    language. Your point is clear enough that you dislike
    President Obama, without all the name calling.

    LAPhil. Rise above the other and elevate your game.

  • Anonymous

    It was a strategy that was started under President Bush,
    expanded under President Obama and has shown to be a tragically flawed plan. It is time after decades to fix the
    problem along our southern border.

    For caconservative.

  • Anonymous

    I believe the issue is removing Obimbo from office. I don’t see a problem with that. We need competent people in the government and Obimbo has proved beyond a doubt he’s unfit for the office.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with competence In the White House.But really
    Santorum? Romney(maybe),Newt ? We need someone
    better to represent the Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    I would prefer someone with gin on their breath who honors their oath of office, our Constitution, and our laws than those without gin on their breath, but greed in their hearts and a soul that is missing, who are selling out our country, culture, and sovereignty.

  • Anonymous

    Oh she’s greedy, greedy like a fox, that turkey-jerky faced woman is.  I know my President’s soul better than you know that hag.  Too bad your hate blinds you.  My country is in good hands, no thanks to know-nothings like you that would love nothing more than to see our country fall apart so a radical anti-choice, anti-school, anti-equality fear mongering, womb invading good Christian can be in the White House.  Good luck, you’ll need it.  

  • Anonymous

    “Me thinkest thou does protest too much.”

  • Anonymous

    No, I just know more words than you, and I’m not afraid to use them.

  • Anonymous

    double negative and you meant to say (albeit not true) that you have a larger vocabulary Vs “know more words…”

  • News Of The World

    Awwwwwww…. what da matta Pa-Blow?  Gettin’ cranky about your chances in November?  It’ll be OK.  You can try again (and fail again) in 2016.  Peace, baby.

  • Anonymous

    The Canadians who wish to immigrate to the USA, do so legally as Canadians follow the
    law.There is also a very liberal policy to allow workers to travel daily from Canada to USA 
    and USA to Canada.A nex pass can be obtained so a passport is not needed and stopping
    at customs is avoided. Canadians as a whole are very  happy with their country and their
    government. Taxes are higher than here but services are available for all citizens. That
    is not to say there is no poverty or unemployment or homeless. Canada has a very
    successful quest workers program run by the agriculture department of the Province.
    The farmer tells the department how many off shore workers they need,the number of
    weeks they will need them.and the farm they will work at.For their part the farmers must
    pay their air flight, provide house,provide health service(provincial)and pay them a minimum 
    wage.The Canadian farmer can still make a profit with these costs.The quest workers
    come from Mexico, Jamaica, Quadalupe, and other islands.
    Canadian or Americans with one partner with citizenship in the other country can now
    apply for dual citizenship.So there is no reason to invade. If America had a decent
    immigration policy and take playing politics with the issue out of the process the problem
    of more illegals could be solved. However, how we are going to handle the millions that
    are here illegally is another problem. E verify is one tool (fought against by US chambers of
    commerce) that would deny jobs and cause some illegals to return to mexico.

    Maybe this will help TerryDoe with factual answers. I and my wife, me USA and her
    Canadian, have lived on both sides of the border and consider both countries as the 
    two best places in the world.
    I now live in the sunny south with my wife as a snow bird so I do wish that this country 
    would work together to move our country forward. Divided we shall all fail.

  • Anonymous

    Error

  • Anonymous

    Yeah there’s alot more I didn’t mention………

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