According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, police in Grand Chute have made an arrest in the Sunday bombing of a Planned Parenthood office in Grand Chute.
Days after the bombing, Republican Gov. Scott Walker has yet to issue any kind of statement even acknowledging the bombing, much less expressing any type of concern about the bombing or condemnation of it.
Criminal behavior is criminal behavior, and I’m disappointed Wisconsin’s governor can’t be bothered to utter a single word condemning the bombing.
Then again, as one of my friends wrote on Facebook, perhaps Gov. Walker hasn’t issued any form of statement because “he cant very well applaud in public.”
A blogger on Kos says Walker was seen entering the Federal Courthouse in Milwaukee earlier today. Maybe he’s too busy.
Maybe he wants to learn more about the whos, whys, and hows before he makes a statement – something Obama has failed to do more than once.
Yeah, the possibilities are endless. Could’ve been a radical architectural critic making a statement about ugly buildings.
So wait….he needs to know the “whos, whys, and hows” before making a basic statement condemning a CRIMINAL ACT?
That’s bizarre, as is your defense of his unwillingness to even acknowledge the criminal act.
Regardless of who did it and what their motives were, a crime was committed, and any decent person should condemn such actions, whether the target is a Planned Parenthood office or any other office in this state.
That Obama! And his Alinsky tactics!
Aaron, talk is cheap, facts aren’t. If you got the money, give me the facts, i.e., the “who’s why’s and how’s” that Obama hasn’t thought of. I myself, remember a war based on false information compounded by lies. Seems to me that he got us out of that mess without missing any who’s why’s and how’s, not to mention finding Bin Laden, who was a “guest” of our “partner”, and someone that lived 10 years longer than he should have, but then Bin Laden had “family friends” in the White House at the time.
Aaron, you do of course, have legitimate examples, don;t you? I mean not lik eRomney’s moronic claims?
Know we know the who, the why, and the how.
Who: Francis Grady
Why: Because Planned Parenthood was “killing babies”
How: Broken window and gasoline poured on the floor and lit on fire.
Dear Aaron,
Do the whos, whys, and hows matter? Bombing goes beyond vandalism to terrorism and should be condemned as such. This is true no matter the motivation, political religious or other.
@gnarly,
You joke, but considering the wide diversity of nut jobs in our society, the possibilities are endless.
Please. Walker won’t ever say anything about this.
Linda,
When you become a politician, you will understand the importance of an investigation.
Aaron,
I will never become a politician, I’m not nice enough or quick witted enough. I have nothing against a thorough investigation. In fact, I want to know who did what and how and why. The point is, that bombing is a cowardly act that by its very nature can have unknown victims. It causes fear. It is terrorism, and should be condemned as such.
Aaron RODRIGUEZ, not to be confused with Aaron Rodriguez.
LOL
Zach,
My last name is in caps because that’s the way “auto-fill” does it. Believe it or not, I don’t care if my last name is EMPHASIZED.
Zach,
We don’t need a Governor – or any politician for that matter – to trivialize a criminal act by a blanket denouncement. We already know it is a denounce-able act. What we need from our leaders is leadership, which means keeping us informed on the things we don’t know. I would rather a politician refrain from platitudes, and speak when something needs to be said.
So when Walker decides to speak out about the protesters mobbing the Square, and he says they’re paid out-of-state protesters brought in by bus, and that he’s under attack by the union thugs, we should assume Walker is sticking to the facts in evidence, and only speaking when it is required. Faced with any economic statistic, he’ll claim “It’s working.” His lizard-lids don’t even budge.
This exercise is pointless. Dems think they’ll embarrass Walker into saying something against abortion clinic bombers? That they can trick him into saying something that will cause Julaine Appling to knit her brow and lose votes among the embryo-obsessed? That he might stumble and admit this is a legal medical procedure? That he might stumble and say he supports violence against abortion clinics?
Walker’s happy to speak eight utterly impossible paranoid factoids before lunch, and someone thinks there’s political points to be gained by saying “Well, why hasn’t Walker denounced X yet?”
And like a moth to the flame, Aaron RODRIGUEZ can’t avoid the abortion discussion, and comes here to remind us not to jump to conclusions, but reminds us to think of OBAMA. Follow the Logic™.
@Linda,
Do you think that Obama should denounce the bombing?
Zach,
Why do you think that a governor should make “basic” statements before any real information is learned?
Aaron, at this rate of excuse making, you’ll be blaming his non-response on the recall by 1:13 am. Governors are big boys and they usually like to let the citizens know what they think about bad things. Only in your head is there something alright with Walker abdicating this seemingly routine part of his job. If he makes a benign statement that bombs are bad, there’s no issue. But instead, he chose to stay silent for whatever dumb reason.
Rob,
Why do you want a governor to make a platitudinal statement out of routine?
And I never mentioned anything about his recall.
Personally, I don’t care. But governors, politicians, and bloggers of all stripes are always being called out by the other side over stupid things they say OR things they fail to mention. Ring any bells, Aaron?
Scott’s staff surely has enough time to dash off a two sentence press release saying they think bombing clinics is wrong on principle, don’t they? Seems like something a reasonably smart advisor would do, right?
Also, I’m not sure you understand what jokes are. Reread what I wrote up above and let me know if it’s still confusing to you.
@Rob
I misread your first post. My apologies.
However, I’m not sold on the idea that a governor – or any politician for that matter – is obligated to do a press conference on a criminal act unless something new is learned since the news first broke. As I said before, we don’t know much beyond the fact that an explosion occurred at a Planned Parenthood Facility.
We, of course, could use inductive reasoning to conclude that explosions at Planned Parenthoods are probably some rightwing nut who thought he was saving unborn babies, but boy would that politician have egg on his face if it were something else.
Obama has already stuck his foot in his mouth a few years back concerning the incident of a black professor being detained outside his residence for not cooperating with the police. Remember the tea party he had with the professor and the officer at the White House?
And the Ouija board with the ghost of Alinsky!
Yep. Obama said that the cop (who erroneously cuffed and arrested a man standing at his own front door trying to enter his own house) “acted stupidly”. Which is true. What a gaffe that was. Why—How dare anyone question a cop arresting a guy trying to enter his own home, let alone call what he did “stupid”?
For dog’s sake—Don’t anyone dare say that George Zimmerman acted like a paranoid, egotistical, detached-from-reality-Gladys-Kravitz-with-a-gun! Not until they do an investigation! Uh…wait…Nevermind.
And here’s my quote of the week: “When you become a politician, you will understand the importance of an investigation.”
Great, Aaron. My inductive reasoning says that you made that remark because you are A: A politician, B: A teen beauty contestant C: A guy who wouldn’t know reason if it jumped out and bit him on his hinder.
Walker is too concerned about his own imminent arrest on numerous corruption charges both State and Federal to make a statement on anything except to remind people that he was once an Eagle Scout.
Jan,
You’re an idiot. That’s not inductive reasoning. It’d deductive.
Jan,
Sorry for calling you an idiot. I should have just said politely that you don’t know what you’re talking about. There are two kinds of reasoning, inductive and deductive logic. The former starts from specific premises and moves to a more sweeping general claim. Deductive starts from the general and comes to a close-ended conclusion – like that of multiple choice.