Tuesday, May 29th, 2007...6:51 am
Republicans Adopting Mo’s Circular Firing Squads
You may remember that Republican Mahout Randy Pullen sent out a press release decrying the Senate immigration compromise, a fact that many of us have found interesting given that Jon Kyl has been credited for being the main guy pushing for it.
(Of course, many of the provisions of the bill were exactly the sorts of things that Kyl was trashing Jim Pederson for supporting just a few months back. Query: was Kyl already working on this when he went after Pederson for supporting “amnesty”? One of those guys with an actual journalism degree should ask.)
The real comedy came later when Pullen’s legions took his call to action seriously and called out our state’s senators: both of them Republicans. Pullen was helped along in this by likeminded officials like Russell Pearce, who even displayed a drawing of a obscene gesture directed at Kyl that he recieved from a constituent. There have not only been calls, but angry protests at Kyl’s office, led, apparently, by the constantly angry Pullen supporter Rob Haney.
Pullen has taken grief from Republican officials, and Pullen denies that he meant for anyone to be angry at Kyl. Pullen wanted, apparently, for his supporters to be ticked at everyone except the guy who takes credit for writing the legislation. Yeah, makes sense.
Pullen has taken fire from Jim Kolbe, Trent Franks and Lisa James, his opponent in the election for chair. James, no doubt, has some mixed feelings about this. She could be singing “I told you so…” or she could also be glad that she doesn’t have to make nice with the cro-magnon wing of the Republican party that Pullen seems so enamored with.
NB - Picture of sign at protest grievously stolen from Politico Mafioso.
3 Comments
May 29th, 2007 at 10:08 am
While you are gloating at the Republican implosion (GWB certainly has served up the party on a silver platter) you might want to keep in mind that both Giffords and Mitchell promised to secure the border. If they vote for a bill that does nothing to resolve the out of control border they will also have to contend with the same voters that Kyl is struggling with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJVtr-q4_dY
May 29th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
That’s great, but the hard core anti-immigration activists that are going after Kyl are not exactly the sorts of voters that either Giffords or Mitchell counted on. In fact, they both ran against candidates that ran chiefly on their anti-immigration cred. Plus, we don’t have Democratic party leaders bashing them for their stances. Wishful thinking to say that they are going to have the same trouble.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:05 pm
seems to me the Arizona Star had an interesting editorial about this subject last Friday.
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