Politicians are constitutionally unable to admit they fucked up. So when things aren't working out all that well, they hem and haw, and quietly back away from their fuck up—all the time never acknowledging that they ever did fuck up.

For the past five years Arizona has enjoyed one of the most vibrant economies in the nation. Taxes were rolling in, and they were used to fund all kinds of idiotic legislative projects.

With pork so abundant the solons had no problem letting people like Sheriff Joe Arpaio , Arizona's version of Bull Connor, take the lead in formulating economic policy.

So in January the Employer Sanctions Law went into effect. It was greeted with a stupendous standing ovation by Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly and all the spiritual descendants of the Know Nothing Party.

The law was harsh. It provided that any employer in Arizona who hired a person who they should know was not legally in the country, would be shut down for ten days. If they did it again, they were out of business forever.

The law had its intended effect. In a state which has always hired immigrants to cut lettuce, build homes, and babysit their kids, there was a massive exodus to places like Texas, which has managed not to become temporarily insane over the issue.

The economic slowdown which has hit the nation, has struck Arizona particularly hard. At the end of the day, Arizona is a desert, and depends on every little advantage it can get. When lawmakers meddle, the result is always disaster.

Even though the jobless rate has creeped up, it has dawned on legislators that the Employer Sanctions Law has dealt a fatal blow to agriculture, hospitality, construction and other industries, all of which have depended on a steady supply of low-skilled immigrant workers. And since they comprised over 13% percent of the construction industry, and selling houses to each other is now the backbone of the American economy, it has seriously dampened the prospect that the state's economy will come roaring back anytime soon.

Despite the predictions of the nativists, there has not been a high influx of unemployed autoworkers storming in from Detroit to harvest melons and empty bed pans.

So now, with far less fanfare than Joe Arpaio's ethnic cleansing sweeps, the legislature is pushing through a measure calling for an Arizona-specific temporary guest-worker program.

Industries which showed they were unable to meet their needs with domestic hiring would be able to directly hire in Mexico through the consulate. There would be background checks, to insure that no rich Saudi terrorists were attempting to sneak in.

The measure has wide spread bi-partisan support. Even the chief idiot who spearheaded the draconian sanctions law, favors it so long as it only applies to agriculture, and none of the spics are pregger. Apparently Rep. Russell Pearce, the Pride of Mesa, has come to the realization Americans won't cut lettuce at any price, but still thinks they will latch onto the opportunity to clean toilets, or lay bricks in 120 degree weather.

By the way, the rotund fellow on the left, attached to Russ's hip, is J.T. Ready, also known as the Hermann Goering of the East Valley—here he is, second from the right, at a Nazi Rally in Omaha in 2007:



Even though the legislature has made a hundred and eighty degree turn in less than six months, it is going to take a lot longer to clean up the mess.

Of course, they could just admit it was a screw up and repeal the whole thing. But politicians never do things like that—besides the biker gangs, transplanted snow birds, trailer park trash , terrified citizens of suburban Phoenix and various skinhead groups would go berserk:



So they will have to go to Congress to get approval of their guest worker program.

And we all know how efficient that organization is.

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