Reading Senate President Bob Burns’ statement* on Gov. Brewer’s budget veto and her call for a special session, left no question that a full fledge war is a-brewin’.

Regarding Brewer, Burns writes in exasperation, “These past few months I have witnessed behavior that is incomprehensible to me. It appears the governor is having problems managing the level of responsibility to which she has been elevated. I hope she takes the opportunity during the weekend celebrating our nation’s independence to reassess her priorities and get back in touch with the qualities that embodied the reliable and reasonable person I used to know.”

With this level of frustration as the groundwork, it should be a fascinating study in human behavior when Monday’s 1:00 PM special session gets underway.

As we said, “Duck and Cover.”

*H/T to the official website of the Republican Caucus.

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OBAMAFARCE- HEALTH CARE TOWN HALL A REHEARSED SET-UP
By Michael D. Shear and Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post

President Obama offered a wonkish defense of his embattled health-care reform effort during an hour-long town hall meeting in Northern Virginia yesterday that featured seven questions, including one sent via Twitter and several from a handpicked audience of supporters.

With the president's health-care ambitions meeting a cool reception on Capitol Hill, the administration is increasingly seeking to pressure lawmakers with evidence of the public's desire for action as well as proof that the health-care industry is a stakeholder in -- not an opponent of -- the effort. "The naysayers are already lining up," he said in remarks before taking questions.

The challenge for opponents, he said, is: "What's your alternative? Is your alternative just to stand pat and watch more and more families lose their health care?" Obama made his pitch before an audience of about 200 people at Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale campus, including students, administrators, professors and local residents.

But the real targets of the message were far beyond Annandale, and the White House is hoping to use social media sites such as Twitter and Face book to reach constituents across the country.

"This is a moral imperative, and it is an economic imperative," he told the live and online audience as he waded through health-care financing statistics. Even as he spoke, the Republican Party live-blogged its opposition.

"Obama says our economy is in crisis because of health care costs," wrote Matt Moon, deputy research director at the Republican National Committee. "But his government-run plan will make it even worse, putting our country further into debt."

In the stage-managed event, questions for Obama came from a live audience selected by the White House and the college, and from Internet questions chosen by the administration's new-media team. Of the seven questions the president answered, four were selected by his staff from videos submitted to the White House Web site or from those responding to a request for "tweets."

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It wasn't enough for three Gwinnett County, Georgia police officers (a corporal and two sergeants, to boot) to regularly show up at a Waffle House restaurant and fill up with free food, in direct violation of department policy.

Nope, they had to further abuse their authority by teasing the young waiter mercilessly (all the while scarfing their ill-gotten breakfasts) by constantly threatening the poor fellow with a TASER:

"[Daniel] Wilson said the officers often pointed the red laser from their Taser at him playfully. They would do so when Wilson picked a song they didn’t like on the jukebox or when telling him not to mess up their order, Wilson said."

Yessir, it was all hilarious fun and games (at least for the cops), right up until the day that Corporal Gary Miles actually walked up behind Wilson and TASED him for real, for no apparent reason whatsoever other than to get some sick kicks:

"Then on Feb. 16, Wilson was chatting with [the two sergeants] when Miles sidled up behind him. Without saying a word, Miles zapped him with the Taser, Wilson said."

The two superior officers, instead of being horrified and immediately reporting Miles for his action, merely laughed it up along with the corporal. Wilson sought an apology from Miles a few days later; instead of being remorseful or apologetic, here's what the good corporal had to say for himself, according to the waiter:

“Who says I did it by accident?”

Fortunately for the other law-abiding residents of Gwinnett County, Miles has been fired and charged with "misdemeanor battery and violating his oath as an officer". Sergeants Christopher Parry and Joseph Parkerson were allowed to resign in disgrace before they got pink-slipped, but the local prosecutor hasn't ruled out charging them in the incident as well.

Wilson has filed a lawsuit against the department seeking damages, and as part of that legal action his attorney seeks to

"bar Gwinnett police from carrying Tasers until their policy and training is evaluated".

That sounds quite reasonable to us, based on the fact that three of their command officers felt that the "less than lethal" defense weapon was issued to them to be used as some sort of souped-up joy buzzer.

Last Saturday night, dateless, bored and reduced to checking for campaign filings on the Secretary of State’s web site, Seeing Red AZ discovered the interesting fact that Dist. 6 Republican Rep. Sam Crump had opened an exploratory campaign for Attorney General. 

At long last the Arizona Republic has finally caught up with the news. Read their week-late coverage here.

Earlier this week I reported that Gannett was planning to lay off between 1,000 and 2,000 employees over the weekend. Although that's only 3% of the workforce, I predicted that the Republic would see about double that percentage. That's because... Greg Patterson

Todd S. Purdum has written a particularly scathing article about Gov. Sarah Palin in the August issue of Vanity Fair magazine. In the lengthy piece, It Came from Wasilla, the author low-rides on anonymous sources from within the former McCain presidential campaign, who unload on the onetime Republican Vice Presidential running mate.

In view of the fact that many credit Sarah Palin with returning recalcitrant Republicans to the fold and bringing their much needed votes with them, Purdum’s absurd slam lacks resonance.  Living in Washington. D.C., he might have missed seeing the numerous bumper stickers on cars driving around McCain’s home state of Arizona that had pointedly cut the name ‘McCain’ off.

The Alaska governor, whom Purdum refers to as the “first indisputably fertile female to dare to dance with the big dogs,” came onboard at the request of Sen. John McCain, who was looking to expand his base and recoup the woman’s vote, which had been steadily slipping from his grasp.

It’s worth remembering that Purdum, the magazine’s national editor, is married to Vanity Fair contributing editor, Dee Dee Myers, a committed liberal who was Bill Clinton’s White House Press Secretary — clearly exposing this venture as an all-in-the-family, left-leaning gambit.

You know that Obama is going waaaaaay tooooo faaaaar when someone as overtly liberal as Helen Thomas openly states that she is “amazed” at the lengths to which the Obama administration is going to co-opt the media and control the press.

Things got a little "chippy" at the White House press briefing yesterday when Chip Reid of CBS began pinning spokesman Robert Gibbs down as to just how "public" the public town hall meeting on health care really was:





"The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and have controlled..."

- Helen freakin' Thomas (!), who is about as liberal as it gets in the major media. It's about time she started doing her job correctly by questioning the Messiah's deceptive tactics.

She knows from secretive and controlling administrations, too, since she's covered every White House since Kennedy.

"'Calling reporters the night before, telling them they’re going to be called on — that’s shocking,' Thomas said, referring to an incident last week when Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney was given advance warning that he would be called on to ask a question on behalf of the Iranian public."

Welcome back, Ms. Thomas.

Keep yukking it up, Mr. Gibbs. You look oh so professional with your smarmy dismissals of the reporters' legitimate and tough (it's about time) questions.

With Gov. Jan Brewer referring to the state budget as “fatally flawed,” and taking her veto pen to several key items, it will be interesting to see what the comes of the negations between Republican and Democrat leadership prior to Monday’s special session.  The meeting is called for July 6, at 1:00 PM.

Brewer rejected 14 bills, including seven budget bills passed last month by lawmakers. She also slashed seven “trailer” bills that they had previously negotiated with Brewer. The only budget bill she left untouched was a plan for capital construction projects.

No one is too happy these days and several state lawmakers have long-scheduled vacation plans in anticipation of the end to the long and arduous 171-day session.  Despite the contentious haranguing in a vain attempt to reach consensus, they can’t afford to take a break at this juncture.

The daily reports that Brewer, whose temporary tax increase has riled Republicans, may be willing to engage in some deal making with Democrats — offering  to put millions of dollars into the budget for an Arizona Commission on African-American Affairs and a Native American building project if Democrats would support her 1-percent sales tax scheme. They reportedly were not interested in the costly carrot.

That seemingly heartwarming blatant attempt to generate some sympathy little "town meeting" that the Messiah was forced to put on yesterday because his nationalized health care scheme isn't getting much traction in Congress, where he supposedly took questions from the "general public"?

It was pretty much all a setup:

"The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which is a part of the Democratic National Committee. White House officials said that was a coincidence." (Emphasis mine)

With a straight face, no doubt. That sure doesn't sound "random" to us. We'd love to go hit Vegas with odds like those.

How bad must this socialistic nightmare of a health care plan be, if Obama has to resort to lies and trickery to sell it to the peasantry?

"You are not going to wake up in the morning and discover he is crying in Argentina."
   -- Charles Krauthammer on Mitt Romney.

Via Gateway Pundit It’s good to be the King – or at least the princes and princesses. That way you get to spend tens of millions in taxpayer dollars on date nights, dangerous PR stunts, and upscale junkets/vacations to ritzy resorts and exotic locales. Want to enjoy special perks not available to any of the great unwashed? [...]

Just like the Washington Post, I too am willing to arrange meetings with any and all of the important people I know, starting at the modest price of $25,000.

Although why anyone would want to spend that amount of money just to meet the assistant principal of a middle school is quite beyond me.

Now that the session is over, I'm going to switch most of my pure state government coverage back to The Morning Shot. TMS will eventually be a subscription-only newsletter but I'm going to continue the soft launch at least until... Greg Patterson

Mega-colony of Argentinian ants takes over the world.

In a related item, Barack Obama announced he was extending an outreach to the moderate Linepithema community and looking forward to a vigorous debate with the ants regarding their possible future as the dominant species on the planet.

July 4th weekend is usually a time for good-ol' shoot-'em-up, splodey-boom-boom popcorn fare. But if you want to deeply impact the direction of Hollywood, consider seeing another type of movie:

The Stoning of Soraya M. is a "Schindler's List" for a new generation — a film that starkly exposes the brutality of a regime that is almost impossible for the modern Western mind to comprehend, but is true nonetheless. It won't be seen as that, I fear, by the elites in modern American culture. After all, it condemns an immoral Iranian culture and power structure the enlightened President Obama is trying to respectfully engage...

If The Stoning of Soraya M. has one enduring message, it is that Iran under Sharia Law is as savage, brutal and unfree as any society in modern memory. And the fact that this is happening to women (and men) in Iran, even today, should be an international shame. These atrocities have to end. And it is perhaps divine providence that this film debuts in the same month that young Iranians are taking to the streets and enduring the bullets of their oppressors to topple their barbaric regime.

Needless to say, liberal movie critics are shocked and appalled since the bad guys are neither Evangelical Christians nor American soldiers. If this film finds a strong audience, maybe Hollywood will reconsider their lazy tropes and go-to bogeymen.

(Via Infinite Monkeys)