[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]California is about to go under water for the third time, financially, and look at what two of our most vapid political dingbats are doing to punish Arizona:
Headline: Two County Supervisors Seek to Bar Travel, Boycott Arizona and Sever $24 Million Worth of Business
Zev Yaroslavsky’s last seminal idea occurred in the summer of 1972 while he was bravely campaigning for the rescue of persecuted Soviet Jews.
Having shamelessly milked the public dole for four cushy decades, Zev the career County Supervisor may hold the County record for birdbrained notions.
His personal pile of putridity, however, keeps expanding and smelling long after he had fulfilled his boyhood dream of growing up and becoming a windbag hack. Zany Zev is an ambulance chaser’s dream. He will fall for almost any scheme. Just bring a camera and a microphone.
Back in the days when I was covering the Jewish community, Z.Z. held an unusual distinction for a man who put himself forward — whenever cameras or reporters lurked nearby —as a serious Jew.
Zany boasted of belonging to two inapposite synagogues, which is on the order of holding a bris in a bar. But a politician has to show his constituents where his heart is — at least when they are looking.
Starved for a Little Attention
And so Zany is back in the news this afternoon with fellow County Supervisor dim bulb Gloria Molina, a scholarly type who thinks Mensa is an organization for ladies only. Like Zany Zev, Gloria Halleluyah could list all of her achievements on the tip of a ballpoint pen.
Evidently while the adults were out of the County Supervisors’ room downtown yesterday, Zany and Halleluyah bellied up to the bar of loopy public opinion, saw a hot bandwagon parading by with two empty seats, and slurred, “We’ll have two of whatever yer serving, bartender.”
Not that Zev needs to drink to give birth to a whacky notion that should have been aborted in the first trimester.
Peering out over their twin tummies, the political version of Peat and Repeat declared that, by thunder, this here new Arizona law barring illegal immigrants from entering the country — what a novel thought — “is a violation of civil rights and liberties.”
Whose? Latinos?
One of these geniuses is off his or her feeding schedule.
One day after new — and decidedly unpromising — LAPD Chief Charlie (May I Use My Middle Name, Glenn?) Beck came out against the Arizona anti-illegal law, Zany Zev and Gloria Halleluyah, puffing and huffing to catch up, cleverly called out “Me, too. Me, too. Them seats are ours.”
Sensible County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, who has sat beside Dumb and Dumber every day for years, said that Peat and Repeat were “stupid” to bring a boycott motion before the Board of Supes.
Gloria Halleluyah, in no danger of unloading her own updated version of the Gettysburg Address, yanked her floppy sombrero over her bloodshot eyes and said, winsomely:
“It’s never stupid to defend the Constitution.”
Darn.
The reporter neglected to ask her the most crucial question:
Whose constitution? Mexico’s.
