Heh - a little bit of pushback
Political winds and all that.
Last I saw in the polls, a lot of people (more than 60%) approved of what Arizona was doing when it put
SB-1070 into law (16 page PDF file).
Now, the Obama government is filing a lawsuit against Arizona to rescind SB-1070.
From the
New York Times:
Governors Voice Grave Concerns on Immigration
In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration�s suit against Arizona�s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.
While the weak economy dominated the official agenda at the summer meeting here of the National Governors Association, concern over immigration policy pervaded the closed-door session between Democratic governors and White House officials and simmered throughout the three-day event.
At the Democrats� meeting on Saturday, some governors bemoaned the timing of the Justice Department lawsuit, according to two governors who spoke anonymously because the discussion was private.
A bit more:
The administration seemed to be taking a carrot-and-stick approach on Sunday. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, in town to give the governors a classified national security briefing, met one-on-one with Jan Brewer, the Republican who succeeded her as governor of Arizona and ardently supports the immigration law.
Back on May 18th, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
admitted that she had not read the 16 pages of SB-1070. Has she done so now?
What a concept -- elected officials
FINALLY listening to their constituents.
I don't know but I am wondering if anyone has tested the water in the metro D.C. area for things like LSD or Ergot -- that would go a long long way to explain some of the legislation and political appointments in the past eighteen months.
What part of "States Rights" do these morons fail to grasp...
Posted by DaveH at July 11, 2010 10:36 PM