Thanks to Karen Johnson?

The Arizona Republic has this article about the death of the bill attempting to change the 9/11 memorial. Karen Johnson was the deciding vote. It is sad when Karen Johnson is the voice of reason for Republican Party.

I really liked the Party of Goldwater better than the modern incarnation. At least those guys cared about our Constitutional rights (some of the time)...

Here is her reasoning:

"Besides, this monument was done by private individuals with private money. And I think that everybody is entitled to their opinion. If it is offensive to someone else, well, I thought that we had First Amendment rights in this country. I'm not happy with all the sayings on there, but I liked some of the ones that they wanted to remove."Among those, she said, were "Fear of foreigners" and "Feeling of invincibility lost.""Really," Johnson said, "weren't we afraid of foreigners after this happened? We may still be. And does anybody feel now that America is invincible? I don't have a problem with that.

Although I can understand how some people do."In the end, that's exactly why the memorial should stay as it is - confusing, controversial, forlorn, infuriating - because after all these years, that's still how 9/11 makes us feel.

Arizona Republicans don't care about kidergartner's Second Amendment rights

Karen Johnson has brought us so many good (and by good I mean idiotic) bills over the years that I cannot remember them all. Now she has dared to defy "Big Kindergarten" by stripping them of their Second Amendment Rights. That's right, she has agreed to not only strip kindergartners of their God given (who needs a Constitution) right to bear arms, but she has also agreed to strip students and faculty all the way through high school of their Second Amendment rights.


The Arizona Republic has the article here...


Apparently, drunk frat boys from ASU and U of A are better candidates for carrying guns. God knows that college students are paragons of responsibility.