After having stood up for over a week, grandstanding before a national audience while pushing a highly discriminatory law through the Arizona legislature designed to disguise itself as somehow being some sort of religious freedom law, once that bill passed the legislature and hit the governor's desk, Arizona Republicans showed themselves to have no more backbone than an octopus hiding behind an ink cloud.
Americans of all stripes piled on. Apple, American Airlines, Yahoo, the NFL, business organizations of all types stood up and told Jan Brewer how much money and business Arizona was going to lose if she signed that bill. Social media lit up like a Chistmas tree with unflattering picture memes about how terrible the Republicans were being.
The common complaint of everybody was that the bill was WRONG. It unfairly discriminated against not only gays, but ANYBODY the Bill's intended audience didn't like. Single mothers, gays, divorcees, Muslims, Jews, or heck, even Blacks, were fair game, if you could claim a religious bias against that person's status - whatever that status might have been.
Yet, yesterday, when the Governor vetoed that bill, what was her excuse? Was it a moral disagreement with the Bill's intended purpose? Did it have ANYTHING to do with the reasons millions of Americans objected to the bill?
Shit no. She caved because of the economic pressure. She vetoed it because she didn't want to be the cause of her State losing billions of dollars in business and who knows how many jobs. In short, instead of having the moral courage to either veto it because it was wrong or to stand up before the pressure of the crowd and defend her convictions, she folded like a cheap suit.
I'm sorry, but in Texas, where I come from, that wouldn't fly. At least in Texas, they'd have the moral courage to tell Apple to take a long walk off of a very short pier. Now, the NFL, on the other hand, would have been a whole other ball game.
Literally. You don't screw around with football in Texas.
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