Scott Walker erroneously thinks he’s smart, speaks on foreign policy & immigration

Apparently Our Dumb Governor thinks he knows better than President Obama how to .

Walker, who is mulling a run for president in 2016, joined a lawsuit earlier this month seeking to block Obama’s executive action sparing as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation. Obama announced the action in November, saying it was an important step to fix the nation’s broken immigration system.

“I and other governors, as well as attorneys general, feel that even though we have executive powers, we feel the president is misusing his. This is a dramatic overreach of his authority,” Walker said, “We think there are the potential for tremendous new costs that could be pushed onto the states in terms of public assistance, education, other related costs that this action potentially brings on — yet again without the federal government providing any funding or assistance.”

Not content to show how utterly devoid of actual ideas he is on the issue of illegal immigration, Gov. Walker then waded into a discussion of foreign policy, a subject he has absolutely no experience with.

Walker also knocked the president’s approach toward the emerging threat of the militant group that calls itself the Islamic State, and his handling of national security generally.

“I think when you make idle threats…in a bizarre parallel, it’s kind of like as a parent, if you tell your kids, ‘If you don’t stop doing that, something is going to happen,'” Walker said. “If you continue to make threats and never act on them, that child is going to keep doing it.”

Walker added, “If you keep making threats and fail to act on them, I think that weakens not only our credibility, but it weakens our safety.”

And he repeated his criticism of Obama’s recently announced plans to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying he doesn’t believe there’s been enough substantial change in Cuba to warrant normalizing relations with the country.

And this guy thinks he’s qualified to be president.

*facepalm*

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16 thoughts on “Scott Walker erroneously thinks he’s smart, speaks on foreign policy & immigration

  1. He literally doesn’t know what he’s talking about, does he? Why doesn’t Scotty ask the Russians how idle our threats are (funny how you don’t hear treasonous righties talking up Putin anymore). Oh, and given that your buddy Tim Russell stoke from vets’ families to fund your 2010 campaign, I’d lay off the “macho foreign policy” talk, Guv.

    Yep, “Walker 2016” will make “Perry 2012” look competent.

  2. He literally doesn’t know what he’s talking about, does he? Why doesn’t Scotty ask the Russians how idle our threats are (funny how you don’t hear treasonous righties talking up Putin anymore). Oh, and given that your buddy Tim Russell stole from vets’ families to fund your 2010 campaign, I’d lay off the “macho foreign policy” talk, Guv.

    Yep, “Walker 2016” will make “Perry 2012” look competent.

  3. What gall! But I will concede Wisconsin’s first Governor “Doe” is an expert on the misuse of power.

    1. Right Side:

      Obama had enough experience/wisdom to vote No on the Iraq War resolution. Ask OBL what he thinks of the weakling Obama.

      For Walker, everything would be a no-brainer because, well, he has . . .

      1. Really Joe? You’re claiming that Obama voted no on the resolution passed by the Senate after midnight on October 11, 2002, by a vote of 77-23. That’s quite a trick, seeing that it was four years before he was elected to the Senate. Please explain.

        1. Good call, Nemo. Thanks for not calling me an idiot.

          Just for the record, from the wiki:

          Barack Obama (who went on to win the election) was not a senator at the time of the voting of the Iraq War Resolution, but has repeatedly voiced his disapproval of it both before and during his senatorship, saying at an anti war rally in Chicago on October 2, 2002: “I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.” He also spoke of the “undetermined length… undetermined cost, [and] undetermined consequences” which even a successful war would bring.

          1. Joe, nice work.

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Iraq_War

            There’s a broad coalition on right and left to withdraw US forces from all foreign occupations.

            Lockheed Martin, and the rest of the military industrial complex opposes, even while they boost profits by exporting Defense work to foreign workers.

            “…China is the dominant source country for counterfeit electronic parts that are infiltrating the defense supply chain….”

            http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/07/11/the-serious-risks-from-counterfeit-electronic-parts/

            #treason

  4. From ruining (not running) the state like a failed business, $2B in tax breaks (expenditures), with no returns in sight for the mid and low income citizens of the state bearing those costs, to the pernicious paternalistic authoritarianism of his, “making threats and caring them out,” against the only portions of the state population that CANNOT easily fight back, the poor, the unemployed, the sick, the fictitious demons (union thugs), and finally, threats against the elderly with age discrimination (has to be age discrimination because it is not about removing Chief Justice Abrahamson), could there be any larger a fool?

    Undoubtedly there are serious contenders, Grothman, Rojo and a few others come to mind, but for consistency and tenacity at brown nosing his superiors and patrons in his climb up the ladder, we are likely witnessing the pinnacle of his abilities (the limitations of any useful idiot), the highest rung, right about now.

  5. In a visit from a spirit caller, (Scooter says he is waiting for that divine summons) similar to Dickens’ Ghost of Christmas Future, it is likely Walker has been given a chance to witness the big shiny special BUS being constructed just for him to be tossed under.

    Not fathoming the classic storyline, unfortunately for him, he’ll completely fail to understand the premonition.

    Play safe tonight, and best wishes in the new year to everyone reading and continuing on with nurturing their own pronounced left tilt.

    Peace and Resolve, nq

  6. If Walker is dumb, you guys must really be stupid as h has made you look like bozos the last 3 elections and in the legislature.

    1. WI against prosperity digest,

      Until Walker does something good, we really look a lot smarter.

      How soon does Gov. Walker meet in 2010 goal of 250,000 new jobs?

      http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/promises/walk-o-meter/promise/526/create-250000-new-jobs/

      When does he do something “conservative,” like end the job-killing gov’t regulations against marijuana?

      We understand that will BRING in tax revenue at the same time it kills the drug gangs. Done right, he could BALANCE the state budget against those receipts and do more to cut taxes on the 99% in Wisconsin, not just his elite friends.

      Thanks in advance.

    2. Happy New Year Bobby,

      Dumb is a relative term, Democratic leadership certainly was not listening to their base all that well which is a form of ignorance, but I’d classify it more as rank indifference combined with deference to voluntary corporate ass-kissing.

      I do think you are a bit too quick in your assessment of the reasons for a known crook to win elections. Selling out all your ethics and personal morals to reward Big money, stealing tax payer dollars to secretly enact purely partisan redistricting and out and out lying to your own Republican base just might be the better explanation for election wins.

      If you are proud of that behavior and you are as old as you imply with the informal resume you dropped here in different comments, you might want to ponder beginning to review your own behavior before you are unable to. Just a thought.

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