Hey has anyone seen Jay Nixon's balls? Let me know. They're about this big. They're like really, really tiny little Obama balls, if Obama had balls.
Posted on 11/25/2014 10:38:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Good question. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon drew the ire of the White House and Department of Justice with a pre-emptive declaration of emergency in Ferguson to prepare all options for the publication of the grand jury report. Even with all of that lead time — and even while the National Guard deployed to several other locations around St. Louis — the first National Guard troops arrived in Ferguson this morning, after rioters destroyed businesses, public property, and looted.
Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder, a Republican, wants answers from his nominal boss Nixon, a Democrat, as to why the National Guard didn’t arrive until far too late. Kinder tells Fox News’ Martha McCallum that he wants to know whether the White House pressured Nixon into leaving Ferguson unprotected — and why the announcement of the grand jury decision couldn’t have been made this morning rather than at night:
Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder (R) tore into Gov. Jay Nixon (D) on Tuesday morning for keeping National Guard troops away “while Ferguson burned” during protests the previous night.
“What the vast majority of Missourians are asking this morning is, ‘We see the National Guard rolling in this morning, … where were they last night?’ The law-abiding citizens, and businesses owners, and taxpayers of Ferguson and the St. Louis region have the right to ask this governor to answer some questions,” Kinder charged in a Fox News interview. …
Kinder argued the delay in sending additional troops showed Nixon’s administration had probably been pressured by President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. He also lamented that the governor’s office had shut him out of the decision-making in responding to the Ferguson protests.
“Why were they not in there at the first sign of an overturned police car, or a smashed police car window, with a show of force that would have stopped this? And here’s my question that the governor must answer: Is the reason that the National Guard was not in there because the Obama administration and the Holder Justice Department leaned on you to keep them out? I cannot imagine any other reason,” Kinder said.
Kinder says the media has to ask the questions, because Nixon won’t respond to Kinder’s requests for information. Kinder asked for a briefing this morning from the governor’s office prior to his media appearance, but got no response at all from them. That sounds tremendously dysfunctional, to say the least, and a little suspicious as well. Kinder got elected by Missouri voters to do his job the same as Nixon did, and freezing him out — especially during a crisis — is completely irresponsible at the very least.
Nixon tweeted out the deployment this morning, but without an explanation for not deploying them last night:
After a chaotic night of demonstrations that erupted in many fires, frequent bursts of gunshots, looting and waves of tear gas, Gov. Jay Nixon said early Tuesday that he would send additional National Guard troops to help quell the worst violence this battered St. Louis suburb has seen since a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in August.
In a tweet, Governor Nixon said he was meeting with law enforcement and National Guard on Tuesday “to ensure people and property will be protected.”
“Violence like we saw last night cannot be repeated,” he said.
Perhaps some of it could have been prevented. Kinder would like an answer as to why Nixon didn’t bother to try, and one assumes a lot of Missourians have the same questions. Ferguson Mayor James Knowles certainly does (via White House Dossier):
They were deployed at other parts of the St. Louis region . . . Why were they not in (Ferguson) at the first sign of an overturned police car or a smashed police car window with a show of course that would have stopped this?
I know I’ve been on the phone in contact with the County Executive’s Office. I know he has requested. I am requesting. I’ve requested the National Guard troops to come out from the command post to help restore order along the business district. We have not seen that.
It’s my understanding that the commanders out on the street have requested this, and those calls have gone unheeded at this point . . . We need to have the governor step up, give us the resources that he’s promised from the beginning. He stated he would have a strong response, that the resources necessary would be provided. They have not been provided so far. We need that right now.
Missing in Action
The Real Outrage in Ferguson is the Reaction, Not the Verdict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAEHZ3eT7fM
Impeach Governor Nixon.
Governor Kinder?? Has a nice ring to it...
I suppose Governor Nixon wanted the Ferguson rioters to do what they did. Why else would he facilitate their actions?
Nixon let the city burn... guess he was standing with the ‘gentle giant’s’ father:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/ferguson/burn-this-bitch-down-879056
Michael Brown’s Stepfather Urged Protesters To “Burn This Bitch Down” After Grand Jury Announcement
Hey has anyone seen Jay Nixon's balls? Let me know. They're about this big. They're like really, really tiny little Obama balls, if Obama had balls.
NIXON PIDDLED WHILE FERGUSON BURNED.
We need a Kinder, less gentle Missouri.
Probably holding the governor’s hand.
The Gentle Giant’s daddy has Mommy Issues!!
The National Guard had been called out back in August when the first, far more serious round of post-Brown shooting riots and looting had occurred. They remained in the background, guarding the command post and court house and other government buildings. The rioting last night, while serious, were not as widespread as the August riots were so why did they suddenly need the Guard last night?
Actually this is a current conspiracy theory at DU.
That someone deliberately withheld support for the Ferguson PD in order to create the conditions for a riot, and a big show.
Unusually this suspicion is not only shared in FR, it is plausible.
In addition, they agree that much of this was caused by “outside agitators”. This is backed up by the arrest records.
The left and right are coming together !
The DU thinking, such as it is, of course includes secret police provocateurs as the outsiders, starting fires, etc., which is loony.
And there is the question of who benefits. They think its some Wall Street conspiracy to discredit the left.
Anyone can call up the National Guard.
How are you going to deploy them and use them? What are the ROEs?
That's the key. The NG would only have done any good if their rifles were loaded, and they had a commander willing to take the heat for killing a large pile of rioters.
Not going to happen.
Especially not for the benefit of the Republican mayor of Ferguson.
If you saw that absurd presser Obummer gave you know why the Guard wasn’t called in. He said the problem was not the “protesters” but the police and basically said stand down while the “protesters” do what they want. And they did.
Another stand down order from Obama, this one being an arm-twisting stand down order to the governor.
General Russel L. Honoré, on CNN, admitted that the Governor(Nixon,DEM.) “could have sent the 82nd Airborne” and it still would have happened!
Although I would have to disagree with that BS, about 82nd.
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