Posted by
Christopher Van on Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:32:31 AM
Ed Rendell, the Democrat governor of Pennsylvania, is under fire for comments he made about fellow Democrat governor, Janet Napolitano of Arizona. While standing next to a hot microphone, he said that Napolitano is perfect for the job as head of Homeland Security because she has “no life”. Not to digress, but if you click here you will see why she has no life! But as far as being perfect for the job, anything short of putting her mug on a billboard somewhere south of Laredo is destined to be a disaster.
The appointment of Napolitano as the head of Homeland Security is something like putting the fox in charge of the hen house, Bill Clinton in charge of the interns or PanchoVilla in charge of border security. As governor of Arizona, Napolitano vetoed legislation that would have made English the official language of the state. She vetoed a bill that would have banned in-state tuition and day care for illegal aliens. She also vetoed a bill that would have otherwise permitted local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws.
If I were an illegal alien seeking to come to America, I’d pack my six kids in my low rider and head to Phoenix using the I-17 express lane reserved for illegal aliens. If there were a version of Illegal Alien Monopoly, Go wouldn’t be Go, it would be Welcome to Napolitano’s Arizona, collect your $200 dollar welfare check, some free healthcare and a couple of wet burritos.
Don’t get me wrong, the people of Arizona generally don’t support illegal immigration and for the most part do a pretty good job when it comes to elections. Case in point, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who unlike Napolitano, routinely rounds up illegal aliens, dresses them in pink boxers, feeds them bologna sandwiches and puts them on chain gangs where they belong. In fact, Arpaio is exactly what we need to head up Homeland Security, because he would actually be change that we could count on.
While there are supporters who claim that Napolitano has been an opponent of illegal immigration, her legislative record speaks otherwise. Like the messiah, she is all talk. Just this year, she diverted $1.6 million dollars in funds from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office, clearly creating a hardship for law enforcement in the state’s largest county. In addition to being an illegal abuse of power, her executive order was clearly an affront of Arpaio’s successful “posses” which utilize civilian’s to round up gate crashing criminals.
There certainly is a silver lining with Napolitano being appointed to Homeland Security and that is getting her veto pen out of the way in Arizona. Under the state Constitution the Republican Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, will take over the governorship which could finally result in illegal immigrants being banned from government schools, hospitals and the workplace where they would now be required to speak English. In simplest terms, the message to illegals would be Welcome to Arizona, Now Go Home! The question is will they now be welcomed in the other forty nine states?
Christopher Van
www.christophervan.com