HOLY $#!&, This really happened!!!!
Wisconsin (The Gaslamp Post) – Wisconsin State Governor Scott Walker, having just faced and won a recall election is once again standing his ground for the people of his state. Having been one of the most outspoken critics of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Governor Walker vowed not to do anything to comply with the law until it was ruled upon by the Supreme Court.
Gov. Scott Walker (R) of Wisconsin is not backing down regardless of what the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare, but instead is counting on President Obama being voted out of the White House in November.
The republican governor who had the balls to stand up to and defeat the unions earlier this month, took an even bolder stand; Governor Walker changed his mind about waiting until the United States Supreme Court rules on Obamacare. He is now refusing to comply with the law altogether, and will not do anything to get his state compliant until the November election.
He is counting on two things: that President Obama is voted out of office this fall, and that the new administration and Congress will do as they promised and repeal the unconstitutional act.
In the event that President Obama is reelected, Governor Walker said that he would “figure out some alternative within the state.”
“Walker’s decision to wait until after the November election before doing anything makes sense,” said state Assembly Health Committee Chairman Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale, according to WITI-TV.
(h/t: WITI-TV)
More states need a governor like this guy. People wanted to recall him WHY????
Treetrunk
June 28, 2012
Please. Our governor is an idiot. He can think whatever he wants, but he doesn’t have the power to refuse the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. Long-held Supreme Court precedent makes this plain (can you say “Orville Faubus”), and his own Attorney General told him so today. Furthermore, his position is thoroughly untenable. What if Congress, acting in its electoral capacity, had taken the same view of the Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore? Get a clue.
the gaslamp post
June 28, 2012
Hi Treetrunk, thanks for posting. Can you expand alittle bit on why Governor Walker is an idiot? I don’t know the man personally, but he must be doing something right in order to have won an election twice in one term. Wouldn’t you think?
As far as precedent is concerned, think alittle further back than Gov. Faubus of Arkansas. Say sometime in the early 1830′s to the administration of Andrew Jackson.
When he passed the “Indian Removal Act” in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the law which imposed U.S. law onto Native American Indian tribes (and thus started the Trail of Tears) was unconstitutional, what did President Jackson say to the Supreme Court, specifically Chief Justice John Marchall?
“Let’s see him enforce it,” is what the president said publicly, and they went ahead and went to war with the Native Americans.
This same strategy that many on the right were thinking our current president would have done had the Supreme Court struck down the law.
Now as far as Governor Walker and this matter is concerned, yes President Eisenhower did in fact send troops to Arkansas to enforce the desegregation of schools when Faubus attempted to use the National Guard to enact his powers under the 10th amendment (imagine that, a liberal Democrat who wanted the constitution enforced).
Yes, he eventually had to cave to the rule of federal law.
Governor George Wallace of Alabama attempted to do the same thing and President Kennedy federalized the National Guard and sent them in to arrest Wallace. Now of course that never happened because insurrection in the south in those days was a very real concern.
Instead Wallace caved to the pressure and allowed black students into the University.
I’m sure you know all of this already Treetrunk, I’m just listing all of this for my readers in case any of them did not know about what all has happened throughout history, surrounding various conflicts between branches of our own government.
The difference between what happened to Faubus and Wallace is that they were governors, not presidents. In that sense then yes, I can definitely see where you’re coming from.
However, unlike what happened in the south over desegregation – this is a completely different issue altogether. This law is believed to be unconstitutional by a great many Americans, even with a 5-4 vote in the Supreme Court.
Many believe that what has happened is judicial activism and not rule of law.
Governor Walker may have had a hard time standing alone, but at least he took a stand. Here’s another thing about that: Governor Walker is NOT alone in this, now governors from other states are coming forward and are also throwing their disapproval out there. Here’s an interesting piece on this very subject.
It should be interesting to see what all develops in the next few weeks.