By BaxterWhew. If you're a police officer in the state of Arizona, you've got to be celebrating. Because thanks to a federal judge in Phoenix, you will not have to ask people you stop for speeding or other minor offenses for their "papers" tomorrow. That was a close one!
We cats have never understood why the teabagger crowd, which hates government so very, very much, is willing — nay, thrilled — to have an unfettered police state when it comes to dealing with illegal immigration. It's just one of their many inconsistencies which fascinate us.
Take the Nobel prizes, for example. We were led today to an interesting article in Newsweek about so-called "Thirteenthers." It's a long, hairy story, and you know how much we cats hate hairballs. But to summarize, right-wing Iowa Republicans who despise Barack Obama — sorry, is that redundant again? — want to "restore" a never-ratified 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment would have prohibited American citizens from accepting titles or honors conferred by foreign states.
Iowa Republicans who worked a little-noticed "Thirteenther" plank into their absurd state party platform last month were, apparently, registering their disgust with President Obama's recent Nobel Peace Prize. (They didn't care that accepting the amendment now would call into question the legitimacy of all subsequent Constitutional amendments. It's a little matter of how many states are in the union at the time an amendment is put to a vote, and thus how many are required for ratification. But, never mind.)
The whole "Thirteenther" thing is just one more example of how off-the-deep-end the right wing has become since they got their butts kicked at the ballot box in 2006 and 2008. But it intrigues us cats since we believe it begs the larger question of Republican antipathy to the Nobels.
We're sure that a search on Free Republic or any of the right-wing sites would reveal unceasing condemnation of Alfred N. and his pesky prizes — but most particularly of the one for peace. After all, look at all the notorious lefties who've won it lately: President Obama in 2009, Al Gore in 2007, Jimmy Carter in 2002 and the much-despised U.N. in 2001. And before that, dangerous characters like Nelson Mandela (1993), Willy Brandt (1971), Martin Luther King (1964), Lester Pearson (1957) and Jane Addams (1931) were honorees.
Of course, the Nobel Committee is not a foreign state, so the teabagging Iowa Republicans are, um, kinda all mixed up. But you can be sure they'd be singing a different tune if the peace prize had gone to Ronald Reagan in 1990.
Meanwhile, can we nominate U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton for a Nobel Peace Prize? Just wondering.
3 comments:
To be fair, immigration law enforcement is not the only area in which the anti-government crazies want the Feds to do the crazies' dirty business. They also want an over-arching/over-reaching Federal nanny to ban comprehensive reproductive health services for any/all women. In the Schiavo case, they certainly endorsed sending jack-booted thugs into the hospital rooms of brain dead people and shoving nutrition tubes back into their stomachs. And they most certainly want the Federal nanny to over-ride every local jurisdiction across the nation to stand in the way of two men, two women, two transgendered individuals from enjoying the benefits of marriage. The hypocrisy and lack of consistency/logic certainly helps explain why these people love the Quitter from Alaska so much.
There's an Iowa kind, a special chip-on-the-shoulder attitude they've never been without that I recall.
BlametheGOPs, we cats could not agree with you more. The right wing's nutty inconsistencies leave us cold as a falling thermometer in December.
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