Quote of the Day
posted at 10:16 pm on July 11, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Calls to protest Arizona’s tough illegal-immigration law fell flat in Boston yesterday as barely 400 people rallied in opposition to Gov. Jan Brewer and her policy to use ID checks to arrest illegals.
Organizers had predicted the gathering would draw thousands, but less than 400 people – some of them counter-protesters – showed up for the Copley Square rally. …
A fiery Steve Kirschbaum, a member of United Steeworkers Local 8751, called the law “scumbag, racist and fascist.”
“Our numbers may be small, but we speak for millions,” he said. (via Jules Crittenden)
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Yeah, but Jan Brewer speaks for tens of millions, dude.
See ya in November.
Bruno Strozek on July 11, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Of dollars?
gina4 on July 11, 2010 at 10:20 PM
keep thinking that….
BTW. OT Geraldo Rivera has Samir Shabazz or whatever his name is on a live interview on Fox. Geraldo is about to break the guys nose, but he has 3 thugs behind him (can’t see if they have nightsticks or not)…
ted c on July 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM
Small but loud! Small mans disease from a Union thug who is too dumb to understand the illegals will take their jobs if they get 1/2 a chance. Bring in millions of illegals then try your next strike for outrageous pay and benefits walla lots of employed illegals and lots of unemployed union thug morons!
dhunter on July 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM
LOVE the photo!
Eren on July 11, 2010 at 10:21 PM
The conventional wisdom of how Republicans should oppose this Arizona law for political reasons is backfiring.
RobCon on July 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Boo Hoo Hoo — May Jan Brewer and the United States Prevail — I really dislike the Unions and some Government people telling what to think — and especially the Government tags on my shirts and pants — they itch me the wrong way ..
wheels on July 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Why does this union guy care? Shouldn’t unions care about their jobs? FFS…
This story is awesome too…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/us/politics/12governors.html
ninjapirate on July 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Is that what they printed on the back of that union card?….huh, it’s a surprise that a steelworker can read it.
ted c on July 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM
…and they call the Tea Party haters.
RobCon on July 11, 2010 at 10:23 PM
Union thug doesn’t work, except maybe on grievances or playing golf with the ties. He doesn’t care if illegals take the jobs of the membership, so long as the illegals pay union dues.
Eren on July 11, 2010 at 10:24 PM
400 people showed up? That sounds like a high school basketball game. Impressive….
Hog Wild on July 11, 2010 at 10:26 PM
Such arrogance!
OldEnglish on July 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM
It is not a tough illegal-immigration law. It is, in fact, a rather mild one.
“Fiery”? So is that what screeching Brownshirts are called in Massachusetts? How quaint.
Tav on July 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM
That name calling steelworker better watch for his job. A illegal may take his job for lot less money and then what would he think? These union dunces can’t see past their noses. Wonder if he would call an illegal fascist if he replaced his steel job?
garydt on July 11, 2010 at 10:28 PM
BTW, the lawsuit was the absolute stupidest move the Obama administration could have ever made…
1. It will be an absolute huge issue this election year… every Democrat running for a state office will have to answer for the Justice Department’s stupidity…
2. The lawsuit is extremely weak…
3. They didn’t wait to see how effective or ineffective it is… so the PR is all about the feds bullying Arizona…
The Republican policy should be the Arizona is a special case for a border state and that the Arizona law is NOT NEEDED EVERYWHERE… but every Republican should affirm Arizona’s right to do what they need to do…
ninjapirate on July 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Easy for Steve to talk all that trash (which he knows is BS). He is in a field protected by state laws and the only way any immigrant will ever get a union job is when the federal courts raise the hiring quotas for minorities.
sonnyspats1 on July 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM
American Spectator ran this column on Friday. The follow-up commentary is provocative, too.
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/09/mexico-unmasked
Eren, your point about paying union dues is spot on. The communist-inspired “Workers of the World, Unite!” is behind the absurdity of protecting illegals.
onlineanalyst on July 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM
They weren’t local. They were bussed in and had professionally made signs that were given to them.
Assh@leturf.
NeoKong on July 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Eren on July 11, 2010 at 10:24 PM
Yep sign up more members to contribute to Demrats and prop up the failing pension plans. Trouble is don’t those new members have to have jobs and what direction are jobs going under Pinnochio and Demrat rule?
Payin the master to import their replacements and leave them with the few skills they know and no where to use them.
Smart power!
dhunter on July 11, 2010 at 10:30 PM
I’m sort of disappointed – I thought George Will deserved quotes of the day today. When Ruth Marcus criticized Sarah Palin’s “mama grizzly” video as “vapid”, Will said “Listen, the height of vapidness is ‘We are the ones we have been waiting for.’ ”
Earlier this happened:
George was robbed!
Marcus on July 11, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Jan walked into the valley
With her duty and the truth clutched in her hand
She was only a girl, but she knew
Someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains someone must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
Into darkness, into danger
Into storms that rip the night
Never give in, never give up
But give thanks that you can the invaders fight!
Someone has to face the valley
Rush in, you have to rally and win, Arizonians
When the Child Emperor and his thugs are saying not to
By God, you know you’ve got to march on, Arizonians
Never hold back your step for a moment
Never doubt that your courage will grow
Yes, it’s higher and higher
And into the fight against the invaders and the tyrant most foul you go!
PercyB on July 11, 2010 at 10:31 PM
FIFY
clement on July 11, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Shut up, fool
blatantblue on July 11, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Please explain.
massrighty on July 11, 2010 at 10:36 PM
“Our numbers may be small, but we speak for millions,”
Keep telling yourself that, fool. We’ll see in November.
GarandFan on July 11, 2010 at 10:37 PM
I think I have a solution to the ileegal alien problem. It will make the unions, laraza, dems as well as AZ happy.
Here is what we do :
1. Let AZ implement SB 1070
2. Let AZ hand over illegals to ICE
3. Once the ICE / feds have the illegals,
transport them to whichever city wants them, San Fransisco, Chicago, Hawaii, New York, LA etc.
4. Give union jobs to illegals, and put the rest of them on welfare.
Now what am I missing here ?
macncheez on July 11, 2010 at 10:37 PM
I watched the video and at least it rained to keep down the stinky hippy smell.
sonnyspats1 on July 11, 2010 at 10:37 PM
The assault against Arizona by Obama, Holder, The Clintons, and so many others, The US DoJ, and on and on, is an outrage, a miscarriage of justice, a vile, hate filled act of discrimination, political correctness, racism, bigotry, ignorance, and an atrocity!
Frankly, I am so put off by those I mentioned above and their malevolence that if I wake up tomorrow and those hate mongering, violence fomenting, prejudicial, racist propaganda merchants who are attacking US citizens and US states, crapping on US immigration laws and the Constitution, and attacking those who try to uphold the immigraiton laws in order to serve and protect their citizens, and spitting in all our faces, not just that of Arizona, if tomorrow they no longer exist it will be good for the USA!
William2006 on July 11, 2010 at 10:38 PM
who broke the law.
Fighton03 on July 11, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Prediction – the “Summer of Recovery” will crumble too, because it is a Big Fat Lie.
Schadenfreude on July 11, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Remember, remember, come this November
The festering heat they have brought
‘Tis no reason why their assault on Americans
Should ever be forgiven, nor forgot
All you tyrants who lord over us
You who give us the smack of your rod
Soon now we will rend you to bits
We will give you the Judgment of God!
If each righteous man and woman does what they must
The overreaching tyrants and their thugs will be turned into dust
Soon now our Lady of Justice will possess them in her breathtaking, hair-raising bed
She will tingle each spine as she captures each head!
PercyB on July 11, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Interesting that the protesters that were quoted in the story were all in their 20s and the counter-protesters were in their 40s. The younger generation is the stupidest in American history, and the most liberal.
Ted Torgerson on July 11, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Steve Kirschbaum… Idiot at Large. Hey look, a new Obama Czar has been born.
RalphyBoy on July 11, 2010 at 10:48 PM
I hate unions too.
But I do hope my next job is unionized.
Johnny 100 Pesos on July 11, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Yeah! Yeah! Now go home. Calling all these impromptu rallies must be the new fad.
jeanie on July 11, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Size matters.
fogw on July 11, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Was there free beer? lol
jeanie on July 11, 2010 at 10:51 PM
How many are citizens?
zmdavid on July 11, 2010 at 10:52 PM
..kinda like the 435 people in congress think they do, right?
The War Planner on July 11, 2010 at 10:53 PM
The Drudge headline links to a NYT piece, where the Dem governors in private talks with the WH call the AZ lawsuit toxic. Yet New Mexico’s Bill Richardson thinks that the lawsuit is just peachy.
Many of these Dem governors are worried about political fallout in re to their campaigns. Is every decision made by the Dems determined through a political prism? Have they considered what is good for the taxpaying citizens of their own states?
More Cloward-Piven on the WH’s part to generate unrest and collapse the economy at the same time?
onlineanalyst on July 11, 2010 at 10:56 PM
May they live in interesting times.
Luka on July 11, 2010 at 10:56 PM
With only 400 showing up, apparently only Millers and Budweiser was available.
Luka on July 11, 2010 at 10:59 PM
So its OK if illegals fight an American Governor on American soil , visiting an American city for business.
But we are racists if we check to see if criminals are illegals aliens too, on our soil, within our own country ….right ????
macncheez on July 11, 2010 at 11:00 PM
And millions more who are preparing to trek across the border.
El_Terrible on July 11, 2010 at 11:03 PM
A nation of Jay-Walking participants.
My three sons excepted. They are like me, for better or worse.
fogw on July 11, 2010 at 11:06 PM
Unions, is there anything they can’t do?
abobo on July 11, 2010 at 11:08 PM
Somehow, I can’t believe Steve Kirschbaum speaks for a majority of United Steeworkers Local 8751 members.
listens2glenn on July 11, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Governors are waking up to the fact their states can no longer afford to fund illegals. In 1986, three million received amnesty. Now they are claiming it’s 11-12 million (probably more like 16-22 million). How many will there be in the next wave?
bw222 on July 11, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Calls to protest Arizona’s tough illegal-immigration law fell flat in Boston yesterday as barely 400 people rallied in opposition to Gov. Jan Brewer and her policy to use ID checks to arrest illegals.
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Boston eh,the birthplace of the Boston Tea Party!!
Who’s the idiot that thought this one up,hey,I know,
lets rail against our fellow countrymen(Americans that is),
and have an Anti-Arizona in the heart of the first colonies
to protest against the British,er I mean Arizona!!
I’m gonna bet,it was some Lefty who was taught the new progressive revionist history!!!
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:18 PM
Well I only mention it because you can get Boston’s young people to show up at a quilting bee if there’s free beer.
jeanie on July 11, 2010 at 11:19 PM
Mealy mouth Mayor Menino flapped about Brewer while parts of Boston were underwater due to massive flooding from severe Tstorms, folks were losing property but Fboy Menino could have cared less….Yo POS Menino, Boston schools reported there were 11,000 students that weren’t proficant in English in 2009, this year there are 28,000…way to go asshat, keep demonizing Arizona you pathetic tool!
dmann on July 11, 2010 at 11:21 PM
Yep, I’m lookin’ out my bedroom window, and no matter which direction I look, I can see it. It’s getting bigger and bigger as each week passes, too.
Bob's Kid on July 11, 2010 at 11:21 PM
So is the original Federal law, which Arizona’s merely mirrors, also “racist and fascist“?
profitsbeard on July 11, 2010 at 11:23 PM
Something tells me that Mr. Kirschbaum has all the intelligence and all the credibility of Slip Mahoney from the old Bowery Boys movies. At least Slip was funny.
BuckeyeSam on July 11, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Boycott Arizona, illegal aliens — stay in Mexico.
Jaibones on July 11, 2010 at 11:24 PM
My three sons excepted. They are like me, for better or worse.
fogw on July 11, 2010 at 11:06 PM
I’ll except my son as well. He’s a 16 y.o patriot who can’t wait to vote in 2012!
annoyinglittletwerp on July 11, 2010 at 11:24 PM
H*ll,why don’t these Lefty protesters go one better,
and head to Pearl Harbour,with a few little boats
hovering over the USS Arizona,and protest the State
of Arizona from that vantage point!!
Nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh,thank-fully that Arizona at Pearl,would quickly
terminate any nonsense above the USS Arizona,the
US Navy would see to that!!! (snark).
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:25 PM
What a joke this site has become, I write about mealy mouth Mayor Menino and the post disappears……absolutely pathetic! FHOTAIR and Salem puke bags!!!! The high ground argument ensures uneducated racist thugs carry the day…..
dmann on July 11, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Why would the Steel Workers Union make such a fuss about it all? Am I missing something here?
jeanie on July 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM
…it’s refreshing to see Republicans who have the media access that will, has taking a harder line against our socialist President.
Baxter Greene on July 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
-Mark Twain
Fighton03 on July 11, 2010 at 11:30 PM
Marchers shouted, “Brewer says get back! We say fight back!” and “Boycott Arizona!” as they slogged through the sodden streets waving signs, chanting in Spanish and English, and blasting music.
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Pifff,somebody was looking for an excuse to Party
for the Spain win in soccer,and didn’t have enough
cash to trip to Spain,so,Boston will have to do!!(sarc).
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:30 PM
jeanie on July 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM
dmann on July 11, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Geraldo is fixing to bust someone’s nose..we all know how well that went over with the skin heads.. This I got to see! :)
Dire Straits on July 11, 2010 at 11:32 PM
…Right…..and we could use them over at the DOJ….immediately.
Baxter Greene on July 11, 2010 at 11:32 PM
How old is Barack Hussain ??
:D
macncheez on July 11, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Mayor Menino flapped about Brewer while parts of Beantown were being savaged by flooding and severe Tstorms……not a peep from the local media……jwhores!
dmann on July 11, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Found: The Dead Potomac River Scrolls–
http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2010/07/11/revised-version-of-u-s-constitution-found-in-dc-cave-the-dead-potomac-river-scrolls/
onlineanalyst on July 11, 2010 at 11:34 PM
See, there had to be free beer!Nobody at all would have shown up otherwise. It’s Boston after all.
jeanie on July 11, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Any unions, like Barack, believe that the new immigrants will join them…teh, heh…they risk losing the blue color voters and members…fools all; but, let them be delusional.
Schadenfreude on July 11, 2010 at 11:35 PM
BTW, the lawsuit was the absolute stupidest move the Obama administration could have ever made…
ninjapirate on July 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM
ninjapirate:This is one Political Iceberg that isn’t going
move.Only this time,the rip along the Liberal
hull is going to go the entire length of the
DNC Titanic!!
I also bet,this will do in Hopey’s Presidentcy!
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:37 PM
must…control….response…..to prevent…banhammer….
Fighton03 on July 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM
See, there had to be free beer!Nobody at all would have shown up otherwise. It’s Boston after all.
jeanie on July 11, 2010 at 11:35 PM
jeanie: Hehe ya,but,there not going to get off that easily,
400 nutjobs protesting for the right to not obey the
Arizona law!!———-:)
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:41 PM
Moonbat delusion and presumptuousness all in one little sentence. There’s your Dem party in a nutshell.
ddrintn on July 11, 2010 at 11:41 PM
The fact is….
… is that when the laws are actually enforced, we will see the positive results.
THAT is what the opposition is afraid of.
Seven Percent Solution on July 11, 2010 at 11:42 PM
mmmm…mmmmm…mmmm
macncheez on July 11, 2010 at 11:42 PM
Found: The Dead Potomac River Scrolls–
http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2010/07/11/revised-version-of-u-s-constitution-found-in-dc-cave-the-dead-potomac-river-scrolls/
onlineanalyst on July 11, 2010 at 11:34 PM
onlineanalyst:Thats a hoot,and this!!:)
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Some skeptics will tell you that this document is an obvious forgery, I can even see CPAC Blogger of the year,
Ed Morrissey use this story as part of his daily
Obamateurism of the Day feature. But anybody doubting the pedigree of this document is obviously taking a bipartisan effort and trying to interject partisanship.
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:45 PM
Found this story from the Boston globe *link*. It is from March of last year telling Obama’s plan on the flood of illegals and druggies coming across the border.
What’s interesting about it is that it is a 13 step plan on rebuilding Mexico, basically.
One step is :”Increasing engagement with state and local Southwest border law enforcement”
So has this plan been executed? I seriously think not.
Electrongod on July 11, 2010 at 11:46 PM
….Of illegal alien law breakers…yeah, we know, idiot. We know.
HornetSting on July 11, 2010 at 11:46 PM
The fact is….
… is that when the laws are actually enforced, we will see the positive results.
THAT is what the opposition is afraid of.
Seven Percent Solution on July 11, 2010 at 11:42 PM
Seven Percent Solution:True Dat!!:)
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:47 PM
You can’t make this stuff up.
Mirimichi on July 11, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Well I don’t know but I think emotionally somehow he got stuck in the terrible twos.
Luka on July 11, 2010 at 11:49 PM
“Our numbers may be small, but we speak for millions,” he said. (via Jules Crittenden)
….Of illegal alien law breakers…yeah, we know, idiot. We know.
HornetSting on July 11, 2010 at 11:46 PM
HornetSing:FYI,its that fancy Liberal math!!:)
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Oops. My bad. It is a 12 step plan.
The 13th step was something I envisioned and had the word impeachment in it.
Electrongod on July 11, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Someone actually watches Geraldo?
Barf…
Ogabe on July 11, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Ah…um..um..I ah…remember ah…marching ah..in..
um..Chicago ah..um…neighbourhoods..ah ..and there
was ah..billions..of Community Agitators..ah like me
….and ah um…..(snark)
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Oh,thank-fully that Arizona at Pearl,would quickly
terminate any nonsense above the USS Arizona,the
US Navy would see to that!!! (snark).
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:25 PM
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…Right…..and we could use them over at the DOJ….immediately.
Baxter Greene on July 11, 2010 at 11:32 P
Baxter Greene:Dam* straight,btw,hows your bicep doing!?:)
canopfor on July 11, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Fairly large segments of the Boston natives do no even care for their black population over much, they have an uneasy detente. Some how I just do not see them embracing the illegal Hispanic population. Wondering if most of these folks came from other areas of the state.
jeanie on July 11, 2010 at 11:58 PM
I totally believe the pedigree of this document. Afterall:
If there is anything that says
‘tough American man’
its a tutu
macncheez on July 11, 2010 at 11:59 PM
The quote of the day comes from the NY Times:
“The Arizona law … makes it a crime to be an illegal immigrant there.”
Seabecker on July 12, 2010 at 12:03 AM
Some of the smaller MA cities have sizable pockets of Hispanics. I would also guess that many of these are illegal.
jeanie on July 12, 2010 at 12:03 AM
4. Give union jobs to illegals, and put the rest of them on welfare.
Now what am I missing here ?
macncheez on July 11, 2010 at 10:37 PM
macncheez:If it will speed up my prediction of an
ObamaVoterBot Insurrection against Team
Obama,then,expedite,your plan!!:)
canopfor on July 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM
Did they really say that in just those words? Could it be that the writer really does not know? I knew their staff had deteriorated but didn’t know how far until now.
jeanie on July 12, 2010 at 12:06 AM
Also found in the cave was and old mens-style tutu and some leftover yarmulkes from Rahm Emanuel’s Bar Mitzvah.
If there is anything that says
‘tough American man’
its a tutu
macncheez on July 11, 2010 at 11:59 PM
macncheez: I bet,they also found,bottled Shower Water
from Rahms famous,ahem,showers!!haha:)
I picture a Tutu,as a fashion accessory to
compliment,Mom Jeans!!
canopfor on July 12, 2010 at 12:09 AM
I’ll find the article……Boston public schools: students not proficent in englsih; 2009—11K, 2010—28K, and Mayor Menino whines about Brewer and common sense!
dmann on July 12, 2010 at 12:14 AM
Illegals are not required to be in AZ to vote, they can vote from anywhere, right ?
As also get welfare / freebies, in any state.
So why do they have to be stuck in AZ ? Let them go where they are desirable and welcome.
There is no need for the feds to be hostile to AZ, and create such strife and chaos. This can be peacefully settled to everyone’s advantage. Unless strife is what the regime is aimong for ..
macncheez on July 12, 2010 at 12:14 AM
The quote of the day comes from the NY Times:
“The Arizona law … makes it a crime to be an illegal immigrant there.”
Seabecker on July 12, 2010 at 12:03 AM
Seabecker: Is it NYT,or MSNBC,for that quote?
canopfor on July 12, 2010 at 12:17 AM
You need to get your high school education finished before you start trying to think. The GOP policy should be that criminals are to be punished, by any legal means. You need to put down the koolaid.
platypus on July 12, 2010 at 12:18 AM
You must be related to Narutoboy.
Midas on July 12, 2010 at 12:18 AM
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