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Friday, February 25, 2011

Madison WI Chief Of Police Wants Answers From Scott Walker…

   …over the comments which he made to a blogger passing himself off as David Koch, the conservative billionaire trouble maker well known for passing out sums of cash to his favorite “ conservative “ politicians, Walker included.

    Top cop Noble Wray has an issue with Walker saying that he and his criminal cohorts had thought of planting  “ troublemakers “ into the crowds of protesters in order to disrupt the peaceful gatherings by the pro-union supporters.

Wisconsin State Journal

... "I spent a good deal of time overnight thinking about Governor Walker's response, during his news conference yesterday (Wednesday), to the suggestion that his administration ‘thought about' planting troublemakers among those who are peacefully protesting his bill," Wray said in a statement issued this morning. "I would like to hear more of an explanation from Governor Walker as to what exactly was being considered, and to what degree it was discussed by his cabinet members.

"I find it very unsettling and troubling that anyone would consider creating safety risks for our citizens and law enforcement officers. Our department works hard dialoging with those who are exercising their First Amendment right, those from both sides of the issue, to make sure we are doing everything we can to ensure they can demonstrate safely.

    No need to tell you that Walker’s office referred to the news conference which Walker had on Wednesday when  he said:

"People have brought up all sorts of different options," Walker said. "As you saw if you've listened to the tape, we shot that down."

     As is noted here, the idea was shot down due to the fact that if implemented, it turn out to be a bad political move more Walker. There was no mention of the concern for the publics safety.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Huckabee Thinks Romney Needs To Say “ Sorry “ For His Health Care Plan…

….and this would be the plan that Romney implemented when he was running Massachusetts which he now says is not good enough to be a nationwide health care plan. Romney’s  state plan had many of the same characteristics that President Obama’s healthcare plan has. Romney’s plan did include those mandatory insurance for everyone rules, as well as fines for those who did not comply. Those are now the issues which he has with Obama’s plan.

TBO

During his 2008 campaign, Romney said he would have structured the plan differently but said the Massachusetts plan worked because everyone had health coverage.

   As is natural for a Republican, Romney says that the plan isn’t working as envisioned by himself because the Democrats in the state legislature altered the plan and that the now governor ( Deval Patrick ) did not implement it correctly.

During his 2008 campaign, Romney said he would have structured the plan differently but said the Massachusetts plan worked because everyone had health coverage.

   So what is possible GOP Presidential candidate Huckabee’s take on  Romneycare?

"'We gave it our best shot and I'm proud we tried it because — in a world where we all agreed something needed to be done — we thought this might be a way to fix the crisis we had in health care. Our experiment did not turn out as we had hoped. It cost more, waiting times were higher, quality of care went down, people were greatly dissatisfied and it ended up having almost the polar opposite effect of what was intended.'"