The New Patriotism: Arizona Moonbats Want Their Own State

I have a better idea: Why don't these loser liberals just pack up and leave?

A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics.

A group of lawyers from the Democratic stronghold of Tucson and surrounding Pima County have launched a petition drive seeking support for a November 2012 ballot question on whether the 48th state should be divided in two.

The ultimate goal of the newly formed political action committee Start our State is to split Pima County off into what would become the nation's 51st state, tentatively dubbed Baja Arizona.

Backers have until July 5 next year to collect the 48,000 signatures required to qualify for a spot on the ballot. If they succeed, it would mark only the first hurdle in a long, circuitous process that even the most determined of supporters readily acknowledge has little chance of bearing fruit.

"We at least need to get it on the ballot, as a nonbinding resolution, to ask the people of Pima County if they want to be a part of Arizona," Tucson attorney Paul Eckerstrom, a former Pima County Democratic chairman who launched the campaign, told Reuters. "All the stars would have to align for this to happen, but it could conceivably happen by the fall of 2013."

U.S. history is replete with efforts to carve one state from another -- from the creation of Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1790s to more modern misfires like proposals to partition Long Island from New York or to split California in half.

The last successful intrastate secession movement was the formation of West Virginia during the Civil War.

Although Baja Arizona would be created from just a single county, it would hardly rank as the smallest territory to be granted statehood. Pima County exceeds Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut and New Jersey in land mass and surpasses several other states in population, including Alaska, Montana, Wyoming or the Dakotas, according to the U.S. Census.

Partisan tensions have long been a fact of life between left-leaning Pima County and a Phoenix-based political establishment that has produced such conservative giants as Barry Goldwater and John McCain.

But the rift was heightened during the past two years as Republican Governor Jan Brewer and her allies in control of the statehouse pursued a political agenda Democrats saw as extreme, including a crackdown on illegal immigration and proposals, ultimately unsuccessful, to nullify some federal laws.

In what world is John McCain considered a conservative giant? Oh, this is Reuters. Silly me. So milquetoast John McCain is a conservative giant and these crybaby, far-left liberals are left-leaning.

We presume in order not to be seen as intolerant they'll be leaving the border with Mexico wide open so they can celebrate diversity with their southern neighbors. Oh, and good luck running your state government without all the tax revenue from those "rich Republicans" elsewhere in Arizona.

Have a nice life, dummies!

Video 'Separated at Birth'

Nancy Pelosi...



...and Aunt Bethany from 'Christmas Vacation':



The resemblance is uncanny.

Cross-posted.

Olive Pit - 1, Dennis Kucinich - Nice Try

Well, it certainly didn't take long for Dennis Kucinich to fold like a cheap suit.

The saga of the dangerous olive pit-filled sandwich seems to be winding down. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has a long track record of getting what he wants in life -- be it a hot young vegetarian wife or money for a treacherous meal -- has settled his case against the Longworth House Office Building cafeteria, which served him a sandwich that split his tooth in half.

He announced the development in a statement detailing his dental heroism.

"Although the pain was excruciating, I shook it off and I went right back to work," he writes in the press release. He also clarifies that "this was not about aesthetics" and shares lots of cringe-inducing tidbits about the resulting infection, which went all the way to the bone, ultimately requiring the replacement of six teeth (not covered by health insurance).

Unfortunately for Kucinich, C-SPAN now maintains an extensive, searchable on-line video archive. And lo and behold, here we have footage of the shameless demagogue on April 22, 2008 - just five days after the incident. You won't see much pain, suffering, or "loss of enjoyment" here - just 90 seconds of buffoonish Big Oil-bashing.

No wonder he settled.



Cross-posted.

Jesse Jackson: "Creeping Genocide" Awaits if Obamacare is Repealed

Here we have a prime example of what passes as an enlightened, perfectly sane discussion of healthcare on MSNBC.

What else is there to say about Jesse Jackson? Behold the hyperbolic, incoherent mess in all his glory.

Repealing Obamacare will lead to 'creeping genocide'? Good grief. This, even though Obamacare's benefits (LOL) don't even kick in for another four years. I suppose the mere passage of the law had an immediate impact on things like life expectancy and infant mortality.

Alas, it did - but for the worse.

And anyway, I don't get why Ed Schultz has his panties in a bunch over possible impeachment trials repeal of Obamacare. No doubt, the Republicans will stab The Beast with their steely knives, as well they should. (Message received). But Obama is in office for at least two more years. Even if a House repeal bill miraculously gets past the Senate Democrats and onto Obama's desk, he would veto it. And he'd probably broadcast it on C-SPAN, the tone-deaf doofus that he is:

"Look! I just vetoed a bill that would have annihilated the most bipartisanly reviled, economically destructive piece of legislation of all-time. Thank me!"



Hat tip: Say Anything. Cross-posted here.

Delusional to the Bitter End: Pelosi Says Democrats "On Pace to Maintain Majority"

If Nancy Pelosi is still talking like this tomorrow morning, I think we may have a problem on our hands.

This does not sound to me like a woman who plans to release the damn gavel from her icy clutch anytime soon - no matter what the voters say.

Does her staff even let her watch the news?

For that matter, her sidekick Chris Van Hollen might need to get out a little more too.



Via Breitbart.

Yawn: Angry Civil Rights Fossil Calls Tea Partiers Klansmen or Something

Some guy few have ever heard of babbles incoherently and apparently it's news to ABC. Really, this is some sad stuff. You'd think someone with a conscience close to the poor man would intervene and prevent him from sounding like an idiot.

A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend.

The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the non-voting delegate who represented the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991, called on African-Americans to organize a "new coalition of conscience" to rebut the rally scheduled for Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial featuring Fox News pundit Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

"We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux -- I meant to say the Tea Party," Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. "You all forgive me, but I -- you have to use them interchangeably."

Fauntroy attempted to explain the comparison to white supremacists by saying that organizers behind the "Restoring Honor" rally are the same people who cut audio cables from a sound system the night before the historic March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

"The same people who cut the cables on the night before the march, that we paid $66,000 for a sound system, they cut it," Fauntroy said. "Now from Fox News and elsewhere, they are seeking to turn the world back."

So glad our Golfer-in-Chief has brought us all together in racial harmony.

Alex Jones Kooks Putting 'Obama Joker' Poster on Mailboxes

I'm not aware conspiratorial crackpot Alex Jones or anyone affiliated with him were the ones responsible for the 'Obama Joker' posters popping up around the country, but now the weirdo and his acolytes are defacing Post Office property with them and shrewdly putting the InfoWars web address on them.

Nothing like leaving a trail of evidence.

Man, are these people stupid.

A vocal and graphic Internet campaign attacking President Barack Obama just hit Central Florida and one of its first targets was a U.S. Post Office (see images). Several Lake County residents called WFTV when they spotted the 'Joker' posters on stop signs and saw workers scraping them off the post office in Clermont.

The postmaster told Eyewitness News he was deeply offended by what he saw, as were many residents who drop off mail at that location. He said he was getting so many calls he had to come out and scrape them off himself.

"I found that they were very well glued on and they're not easy to be taken off," Postmaster Willie Montgomery told Eyewitness News on Tuesday.

Montgomery said he was flooded with calls as soon as people saw the posters stuck to the drop box at his Clermont post office.

"I've been with the Postal Service for 30 years now," he said. "I've never seen anything this insensitive."

The crude depiction of President Obama shows him looking like a clown, or the Joker from the most recent Batman movie. But Clermont isn't the only town dealing with it.

The poster campaign is a national one, and known talk-radio and Internet personality Alex Jones is pushing people to post and videotape the signs in a stand against Obama.

"The establishment is trying to use his star appeal to sell the new world order, the carbon tax, the health care, the whole agenda," Jones argued in a video clip on his website.

Jones is not affiliated with any party and has been called a muckraker and conspiracy theorist.

This freak Jones was behind much of the insane 9/11 Troofer nonsense and should be shunned. Naturally, expect the Democrats to seize upon this and try and tie the maniac to the GOP.

'People Think This Is a Joke. We're Not a Joke'

Whenever someone needs to remind you they're not a joke, well, the laugh is on them.

Although frankly I long ago stopped laughing at these buffoons.

“New World Order,” which premieres tonight on the Independent Film Channel, is a film about people battling with phantoms. They are volunteers in an "information war" who see as clearly, as John saw his four Apocalyptic horsemen and seven trumpeting angels, that 9/11 was an "inside job," that the military-industrial complex killed Kennedy, and that an international "power elite" is plotting to enslave us all, excepting for those it will kill outright.

They are hard to pigeonhole politically, these conspiracy adepts, trusting neither the "socialist Democrats" nor the "fascist Republicans" -- Ron Paul seems to be their man, if anyone is -- yet sounding as often like '60s leftist radicals as right-wing militiamen. They take the 1st Amendment as seriously as any card-carrying member of the ACLU, styling themselves muckrakers and speakers of truth to power, often through a bullhorn.

The man with the biggest bullhorn is Alex Jones, an Austin, Texas-based syndicated radio host and maker of such films as "Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement" (116 five-star reviews on Amazon.com) and "Martial Law 9-11: The Rise of the Police State," and the point through which all the strands connect in this unexpectedly affecting, nonjudgmental documentary by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel. Meyer and Neel don't get in the way of their subjects; there are no talking heads or title cards to contradict their worldview, or even to put it in perspective, only the occasional collision of the theorists' certain knowledge with others' actual experience.

Note this piece is dated May 26, so this show will be on IFC Tuesday evening. No doubt the crackpot Alex Jones will be reveling in his own buffoonery.

But many of his fellows and followers seem something closer to sad -- hurt, almost, by What They Know. If anything, "New World Order" plays as a bittersweet, all-too-human comedy. Like the pair's previous documentary, “Darkon,” which looked at a self-described "full-contact medieval fantasy war-gaming group," it's a film about people who have found the thing that gives their lives shape and meaning, that corrals the world's random messiness into a unified theory of disaster. It does not make them happy, but the scales having fallen from their eyes; they are helpless to look away and too terrified not to speak out. Their zeal is literally missionary.

"This is more important than how much Britney Spears' hair sold for on EBay, 'Dancing With the Stars' or who's gonna be America's next idol," says one believer. "People think this is a joke. We're not a joke."

Yes, and nobody will be laughing at your idiocy.