I’m loving this guy. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, fresh from picking the remains of labor union carcass from his knuckles and teeth, is now expected to pick a fight with the other sacred cow of the Democrat Party – Planned Parenthood. This guy is just taking on all comers. What could this guy possibly do next to impress -beat Harry Reid with Sheila Jackson Lee’s arms?
Walker is expected to sign a budget bill on Tuesday, making Wisconsin the fourth state to defund the abortuary. (Indiana, Kansas and North Carolina did so earlier this year.) Do you realize how much liberals hate Scott Walker right now? This trend of the states doing what the feds so miserably failed to do is awesome and it’s good for the country to bring some power back to the states. The days of us waiting for Washington to do something good is over. Make the fight on our own turf.
Now, of course, Planned Parenthood went crying to their favorite spot in the world -the courts- from which all liberal goods derive. Planned Parenthood, along with Obama’s Department of Justice, is arguing that the states need to send the money to Planned Parenthood because they say so. We’ll see.
This fight is crucial. My new motto is: Federalism. It’s not just for rednecks anymore.
June 22, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I ask you, and all of your readers, to pray for Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans.
I don't know if you keep up with state news, but the political scene in Wisconsin has been awful since Scott Walker took office in January.
When he proposed a budget repair bill that took away some collective bargaining privileges from public employees — specifically, it gave them the choice not to join unions and required contributions toward health care and pension benefits — the Wisconsin liberals when CRAZY.
Thousands descended on Madison, chanting, protesting. 14 State Senate Democrats fled the state for weeks back in February/March (and planned to be gone longer!) Teachers called in sick en masse to act outrageously in the state capital. Threats of violence were made against Walker and other Republicans.
And it hasn't stopped. Some liberals have sent up a tent shantytown in Madison because Scott Walker's bill supposedly is driving us all to poverty. They invaded an event with Special Olympians, dressed as zombies, to protest the governor.
They really have no shame and it hasn't stopped.
Now they're trying to recall 6 Republican senators and will front an effort to recall Walker later this year.
The budget Walker proposed closed our state's budget deficit and addressed about 90% of the state's structural deficit. All while not raising taxes or laying off public employees. It also expands school choice, which will be a boon for local Catholic schools.
But all of this could be lost because EVERYTHING Walker does is being taken to courts.
Pray please, for him, and those of us who support him who are sick of this insanity.
June 22, 2011 at 12:43 pm
What Amy said… ditto, and amen!!
June 22, 2011 at 3:23 pm
I sincerely want to know, though — what is pro-life about allowing people to carry concealed weapons????? The state assembly passed that bill yesterday, and I'm sure Gov. Walker will sign off on it now.
We have a dear friend in our Bible study who is a police officer, and he is NOT a fan of concealed carry, for obvious reasons. It's a sad day when the pro-life party is so beholden to the money of the NRA that we have become gutless about saying no to these kinds of laws.
Nancy in WI
June 22, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Just a clarification, Wisconsin is different than the other states. They are only defunding $1 million of their annual $12 million dollar public funding. A step in the right direction but it's not a "defund."
Walker actually proposed to totally defund PP in Wisconsin but Republicans in the Assembly and Senate hijacked(or compromised) his proposal with this wimpier version.
A step in the right direction to a total defund.
June 22, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Concealed carry is pro-life because it protects YOUR life and those of your family and those around you.
When SECONDS count, the police are only MINUTES away!
In every case where concealed carry went into effect, the crime rate DECREASED. In every country that banned guns, the crime and specifically gun crime INCREASED. Get the facts.
Protecting life is protecting life. In most situations where a concealed carry permit holder takes out their weapon, the VAST majority of the cases NO shots are ever fired. The criminal once confronted turn tail and run. This protects everyone.
Concealed carry is allowed in 48 of 50 states and has been a huge success. All the fears of the anti-gunners have been PROVEN 100% false over and over again and again.
June 22, 2011 at 7:36 pm
@Nancy: Or we can do open carry – either way because, a gun is lighter to carry than a cop.
June 23, 2011 at 4:56 am
Anonymous, I'd love to know where you found the stats on crime going down in places where concealed carry exists. I'd like to be able to share them with my police sargeant friend, who now wonders how many times a (larger caliber) gun will be pulled on him.
He also has pretty strong opinions (and some stats) on how poorly trained most gun-carrying private citizens are . . . and how bad their reaction time, aim, etc. usually are. He tells me that in a home invasion, when the home-owner pulls out a gun, the chances of the home owner dying increase dramatically because of unpreparedness, bullets being locked up somewhere for a safety, etc. So, the criminals "in the vast majority of cases" don't necessarily "turn tail and run" — they're criminals, and many of them would rather shoot a potential witness (and many are more familiar with firing weapons than the average gun-owning homeowner).
And for the record, I'm not an "anti-gunner" — I just think the poor regulation of sales and the riduculous weapons sold legally need some thoughtful new legislation. I come from a hunting family, but I have yet to see a need for semi-automatic and fully-automatic weapons for any reasonable citizen. Unless you really hate deer, ducks, and pheasants. :o)
Nancy in WI