On supporting Arizona II

A polling outfit called TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence (weirdly abbreviated TIPP) finds that 51 percent of Americans support Arizona's law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of those stopped for other reasons. Only 35 percent approve of the U.S. Justice Department's attempt to invalidate the law. But here's the fun part:

“What is interesting here is that Americans are on the side of Arizona and seem to not share the US government’s views against the law, despite wide media coverage of the clash between [President] Obama and [Governor] Brewer on this issue,” says Raghavan Mayur, president of TIPP.

Despite? Couldn't it be that Americans are supporting Arizona because of the wide media coverage? Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Here's an idea: let Phoenix sue Washington!

Not content with firing company officers (General Motors), shaking down foreign companies (BP), and generally bullying any industry (Wellpoint) or small nation (Honduras) that offends it, the Obama administration has now filed suit against the state of Arizona for its impudence for requiring police officers to enforce the law of the land.

It seems to me that Arizona has a much better case for suing the federal government and its minions. What part of nonfeasance doesn't the U.S. Justice Department understand? Blue skies! -- Dan Ford