Thursday, February 27, 2014

Conservatives: Governor Brewer "Blackmailed" Into Foolish Veto

by JASmius

What, you mean she isn't a RINO herself?

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer caved into pressure and "blackmail" from moderate GOP leaders, large corporations, the NFL and gay rights activists when she vetoed a controversial bill allowing business owners the right to refuse service to same-sex couples on the grounds of their religious conviction, critics of the move told Breitbart.
"This really was a media and partisan witch hunt," Professor Gerald Bradley of the University of Notre Dame School of Law told Breitbart. "Brewer caved to nothing less than high-tech blackmail: 'If you sign this bill, we will make you [Arizona] pay."

Senator Al Melvin, a Republican who is running for governor in Arizona and voted for the bill, said he was disappointed by the veto.

"I am sorry to hear that Governor Brewer has vetoed this bill. I'm sure it was a difficult choice for her, but it is a sad day when protecting liberty is considered controversial," Melvin said.

First things first: I whiffed on this call.  Not that it matters that much, since all Governor Brewer did is save Eric "The Red" Holder the trouble of suing Arizona again to block and squash the religious liberty bill.

Was she blackmailed into this veto?  Well, the NFL threatening to pull Super Bowl XLIX out of Phoenix was a new wrinkle, although with all the Michael Sam hoopla, that's probably not all that surprising.  That illustrates the mercenary nature of "big business," just as it illustrates the appallingly enormous power of the Lavender Lobby.  It's akin to the political clout the Ku Klux Klan had in the south after the Civil War (appropo since homosexual extremists are so fond of Civil War references).  Only these days it's Christian evangelicals figuratively (and eventually literally) dangling from tree branches.

As to "moderate Republicans," there were three Arizona state senators who voted for the religious liberties bill who then buckled to all that buggering pressure and urged a Brewer veto of it.  And, of course, John McCain and Jeff Flake did as well.  Certainly that speaks ill of them, but what I find baffling is why the Governor herself isn't being ripped from rectum to belly button by these same "RINO" hunters.  All the "moderate Republicans," business leaders, etc. could do is urge a veto; Jan Brewer actually had the power to make that decision.  The responsibility rested on her slender shoulders, and she chose....poorly.  Yet her sellout of evangelicals is still somehow the fault of those who successfully bulldozed her into carrying out their wishes?  Would, say, Chris Christie get such a generous benefit of the doubt?  Why does Governor Brewer get cut such a big break?

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