Gov. Jan Brewer, she who eats scorpions for breakfast, waggles her finger at sitting presidents for lunch and slaughters non-budget-related bills in preparation for her evening feast, has now been likened to the man who is most famous for betraying the Lord and Savior of millions of people worldwide.
Yep, Janice has been compared to Judas by the state’s GOP chair, A.J. LaFaro, who was so pissed off about Brewer’s insistence on pushing forward on her Medicaid project that he felt she was equivalent, in some way, to someone who gave up the (alleged, depending on your belief system) Son of God to be tortured to death:
“Jesus had Judas. Republicans have Governor Brewer,” LaFaro said before leaving the podium.
Granted, this is old news (he said that back in March) but it’s gaining relevance once again as the Medicaid measure gains traction — and as Brewer’s reputation takes on a new twist. From Bloomberg News:
Brewer “became a symbol for many of a Tea Party Republican, who was not willing to be flexible, who was going to stand up for red states,” Zelizer said. “This kind of position challenges that and suggests she may be more politically pragmatic than she appeared to be.”
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Last week, in the largest of four rallies Brewer has hosted at the Capitol to promote her plan, more than 1,000 supporters gathered on the Senate lawn. Brewer shared the stage with a local talk-radio personality, a hemophiliac who said he needed Medicaid to live, an emergency room doctor and others. The audience chanted, “It’s the right thing to do!” as opponents on the periphery heckled them and held signs deriding socialism, death panels and “Obrewercare.”
Brewer vowed not to give up, saying she had mathematics and morality on her side. She called Medicaid expansion the “most important health issue that our state has faced in a decade.”
“I knew it wouldn’t be easy,” she told the crowd. “But let me tell you something else, I don’t think the opponents realized how hard we are going to fight.”
This article appears in May 30 – Jun 5, 2013.
The GOP and the T party are a bunch of morons…I will never ever
vote Republican again…
It made sense to anybody who would take time to think about it to oppose illegal immigration. Immigration, and illegal immigration in particular, is killing the country. But is doesn’t make sense to follow a blind right-wing agenda on everything. Jan Brewer is right on this one.
I hate to admit it, but you’ve gotta have at least a little respect for someone that the Teabaggers are calling a traitor.
A representative choosing to fight for the old and sick, the deaf and blind and whose actions speak loud for those with small voice will have my respect. Those who side to oppress the poorly represented further are truly “Judases” to our civility, citizenry, democracy, and humanity. If more would find that unpopular courage to be kind and just, our society would be better off in resolving the “Murky Matters” and “Mixed Messages” of injustice and inequality.
I left the Republican party years ago – about the same time I realized I am liberal and a feminist.
The Tea Partiers will each face the age where they begin to have issues requiring medical intervention. While all of us have been encouraged to save for retirement, these delusional individuals best be saving to pay for expensive conditions like heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimers, Dementia, Assisted Living and more. Since they claim to not want Government controlled Health Care they will obviously not use Medicare or Medicaid and I guess they will also return their Social Security Benefits checks.
I am a liberal (for the most part) and I still hate her – no respect
God Bless Jan..
She’s pulled some real good boners in her gubernatorial post in the past, but the woman must have had an epiphany on this issue.. and in standing up for the people of Arizona, she will be forever banned from the inner workings of the Arizona Teapublican party by a raving bunch of lunatics, who seem to be frothing at the mouth, and equating her to Obama. I wonder if someone is going to open an investigation into her birth certificate, and her right to hold office in the United States.
I don’t support her fight against my tribe’s gaming prospects in the West Valley and I think she throws her religion around public policy too much. But I stand with Jan the Head one hundred percent on this issue. Lately it has gotten embarrasing to call myself a republican anymore, I look at our legislators and I think to meself “what was I thinking having ever sided with them?”
Na! …..she’s just a flip flopper all the way…but she flipped on the right flop.
Good for you scorpion eater.