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HuffPo Blogger Explains Why Wisconsin Gov. Walker Is a…Shallow Christian

For  those of you who thought that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was taking the unions on to put his state on a fiscally solvent path–you’re wrong! He‘s actually causing all of this trouble because he’s a bad Christian. Or so says Diana Butler Bass, pictured below.

HuffPo Blogger Explains Why Wisconsin Gov. Walker Is a...Shallow Christian

Bass is the liberal Christian author of “A Marxist’s People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story.” She writes:

Unlike the Roman Catholics and traditional Protestants who have spoken on behalf of the laborers, Walker has no spiritual “check” on him, no authority other than the ones he hears in his own head, and no moral culpability in this situation. He’s the good Christian soldier, just following God’s lead.

And this is why Scott Walker’s religion is actually dangerous in the public square. Because it lacks the ability to compromise, it is profoundly anti-democratic. Many faith traditions actually possess deep spiritual resources that allow them to participate in pluralistic, democratic, and creative political change. But those sort of traditions tend emphasize the love of God and neighbor over strict obedience to an unyielding Father God. Despite anything Scott Walker might say, the confident dictum of the old hymn, “Trust and Obey” is not the best way to govern a state.

She continues, “Other than David Koch (fake or otherwise), Walker is listening to One Person and One Person only: Jesus speaking directly to him. God, evidently, has directed him on his current path.” Evidently? What evidence? Maybe if God is taking the form of excel spreadsheets that spell out billions of dollars of deficits in the state, then Bass is on to something. But to paint Gov. Walker as a religious fundamentalist is otherwise absurd.

Mark D. Tooley, writing yesterday at Front Page Magazine, delivers a thorough rebuttal of Bass’ screed in one sentence:

Governor Walker has cited fiscal reality, not religion, for his stance with Wisconsin’s government unions.

Tooley points out that many other Christian leaders in Wisconsin are asking the governor to reconsider his cost-cutting legislation in the name of “compassion.” But there’s another side to this story too. Over the past several days, I’ve heard Gov. Chris Christie, Rep. Eric Cantor, and Rep. Paul Ryan, and Senator Marco Rubio deliver talks about the very issues that Scott Walker is facing in Wisconsin–namely, the unfunded entitlements that will bankrupt our states, if not our country. These politicians were uniform in their belief that if we do not make minor reforms to these entitlements, as Scott Walker is proposing in Wisconsin, that they will not exist period in a few short years. Reforming them now means that retirees will continue to receive their pension checks, rather than the grim alternative. How’s that for compassion?

(hat tip Front Page).

Comments (199)

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  • olduffer
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:02pm

    It’s comforting to know that that the left is falling apart…This person is ‘proof’.

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  • thermonator
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:57pm

    Bass would have more credibility about her judgment of who was or who was not a good Christian if she was speaking from the top post of the Vatican. But since she is only a second rate liberal writer, writing on a second rate liberal website about a republican governor, you can dismiss her rantings as just partisan demagoguery.

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    • mill
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:05pm

      we are giving her too much credibility by even speaking about her.. Cover her column in kitty litter and put in the trash

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:56pm

      Reading her piece on the HuffPo was my first trip over there. It was sad. I think she got more exposure here! Even though we are overwhelmingly against everything she wrote and for that matter stands for period, the comments here are more plentiful and well thought out. They definitely hate Walker and ANYONE who even tries to defend him even just a little. Most based on the unionistas lies and less on a principled argument of any sort. I guess…..when you are losing the argument……bite someones ear off. I need another shower.

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:06pm

      336loofah . . . ” the comments here are more plentiful and well thought out.”

      Indeed, I find this kind of stuff inspiring:

      Yeah yeah yeah.
Look who’s talking!

      Cover her column in kitty litter and put in the trash

      Sicko thugs are what you folks are, not teachers.

      Just another idiot with a laptop

      Silly ********.

      You bimbo

      You progressive rat vermin will rot in hell. All union rats stealing from the public are going to rot in hell as well.

      I guess Arianna, the whorish street walker has to make money somehow,

      What a whack job!

      Diana Butt (misspelling intentional)

      a pro-baby killing liberal trying to teach us about God

      Liberal women truly are an ugly breed….inside and out.

      SHE IS AN IDIOT!

      Diana Butler Bass – is just another fat sookey

      Dawg again – I’m equally inspired by the Christina insights on display:

      This lady knows nothing of being a Christian, because the Holy Spirit would never lead another Christian to condemn another Christian

      She has no business pretending to interpret or represent his faith. But I guess the term “liberal Christian” says it all.

      Isn’t a Huffpo Christian blogger an example of an oxymoron?

      There is no such thing as a “Liberal” Christian.

      There is absolutely positively no such thing as a liberal Christian

      Dawg again – this has to be my absolute favorite:

      Not that I am judging her Christianity, but it is a firm belief within the christian faith that man is not to judge the fruits (or faith) of another. Maybe she is Muslim?

      Yep, that pretty much says it all. Conservatives don’t understand anything about Jesus. Why? because Jesus was a liberal.

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  • leftylemn
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:56pm

    Liberal women truly are an ugly breed….inside and out.

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    • sweetnsalty
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:49pm

      I thought the same thing when I saw her. They all look like a bunch of mutts.The problem is their so ugly that they can’t attract the opposite or same sex so all their frustration is taken out on the more attractive conservatives.

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:35pm

      I don‘t care what she looks like or whether she’s a nice person or not..it’s her tactics we should be paying attention to..it’s right out of a liberal playbook to convince naive people their not “good Christians” if they don‘t live up to someone else’s convictions.

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:44pm

      in other words..their convictions.

      God forbid we think for ourselves and that’s their greatest fear – that we will share ideas and form methods of implementing those ideas that are in direct opposition to their own.

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:55pm

    Walker is a good Christian. He promised to make the necessary changes to bring his state to fiscal sanity and that‘s what he’s doing. More politicians should follow his lead on keeping promises.

    Liberals hate religion. They just use it as a political weapon when it’s convenient. Liberals never speak of Christ or the Bible unless they’re using it as a weapon of judgement. This who debate is about money, not being a good person. These greedy teachers are throwing a hissy fit and running away from their job. They’re the bad people. The people of Wisconsin spoke on November 2nd. Elections have consequences. Stop pouting. You lost. The people prefer a balanced budget to lavish union benefits.

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  • olduffer
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:51pm

    We all know that to Democrats and Libs “compromise” means capitulate.

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  • Thetruthhasnoagenda
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:49pm

    Can’t we just get some calculators for these liberals? It’s the budget, Stupid!

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  • matinva
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:47pm

    Someone needs to remind Ms Bass that we don‘t live in a Democracy so it is entirely fitting that Scott Walker’s belief‘s and actions are ’anti-Democratic’. We are a representative republic and, as such, our leaders are elected to serve the interests of all citizens, not just those of labor. Labor (unionized) represents only a small fraction of the American work force and should have no better wages and benefits than any other segment of the work force. Unions are responsible for driving manufacturing off shore where companies can maintain enough margin to survive and still be competitive in the world marketplace. Government employees should not be permitted to unionize since there is no ‘adversarial relationship’ with the employer, which is the taxpayer in every case. Government unions bargaining is nothing but legalized extortion and should be discontinued immediately. If union workers don’t like that, they are free to work elsewhere just like the rest of us.

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  • SheriS
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:46pm

    With the hateful comments coming for this pathetic so-called reporter, I think it is quite easy to see who doesn’t have God in thier life! Governor Walker is doing what he has to do to keep his state solvent—unlike the pathetic soul in the White House and his minion friends of the Progressive ilk who are incapable of even attempting to make our country solvent but more interested in bankrupting the country—-guess there is no God in the lives of the people who believe like this “woman”, the Prez, and all the progressives who are trying to bankrupt our country!

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:42pm

    This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Liberals start from the premise that anyone who disagrees with them is automatically and inherently evil. Therefor, it’s okay to use every trick in the book and to call us Nazis and the like. Lying, for them, is okay because they think we’re all liars and every other form of evil, so it’s fighting fire with fire, so to speak.

    The ends do justify the means, because their ends are noble in their minds. Because they see us as irredeemable, we are to be destroyed and whatever it takes is justifiable.

    The only sin in a liberal’s mind is that no one can be liberal enough.

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  • azghost
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:42pm

    This lady knows nothing of being a Christian, because the Holy Spirit would never lead another Christian to condemn another Christian.The Holy Spirit leads you to Gods word and how to apply Gods word in your life. She must of missed that Sunday school class.

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  • YouGottaProblemWithThat
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:41pm

    Yes it is shallow for Christians to take responsibility for sin and greed displayed by the ungodly unions. The woman at the well got that same advice from Jesus. Go home and don’t worry about it, I got cha covered.

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  • TennesseeConservative
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:38pm

    How would this person know the mind of GOD? She should tell us more since she is so intimate with our creator. How preposterous. But the left knows best, thats why they tell us what to eat and drink, how to talk, what we should believe. They have no fear of GOD, and even try to speak for him. They are just brilliant, in all things. Don’t believe me, just ask any one of them. Professing themselves as wise they have become fools.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:38pm

      I would simply NOT wabt to be she when the day comes to stand before the Lord. Anyone who is as fast and loose with facts, should keep her mouth shut. His faith is between him and his God. She has no business pretending to interpret or represent his faith. But I guess the term “liberal Christian” says it all.

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:38pm

    Bass cites the Catholic Church’s support of “laborers.” She’s right, the Church does support FAIR treatment for those who do work if it is compensatible (arranged beforehand). However, if an act is done out of charity (Love), no compensation is needed. AND The Church does not support Liberation Theology whether or not “factions” (including certain Orders such as the Jesuits), support “Social and Economic Justice.

    We EMPLOYEES do want to be properly compensated, but we are NOT BLOOD SUCKERS as some would be!

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  • vtech61
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:38pm

    Bluffpo has become pretty much insignificant, if you ask me.
    Was just over there recently and even the die hard ‘bluff heads’ are leaving.
    Seems they don’t like the fact that their fearless leader sold out to AOL.

    Same goes for mediamartyrs.
    Was just over there today scanning some of their ‘responses’ to topics.
    Pretty much becoming a ghost town.

    I think as more people wake up to being lied to and used as useful idiots by these socialist groups…
    these places will wither on the vine.

    Poor George Soros. Wonder how many millions he’s pumped into these failed propaganda sites and their minions?
    Not sure about mowdown.org. Do they even have a forum for comments?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:05pm

      I don’t know, but I’m going to change my bumper sticker from
      I DON’T BELIEVE THE LIBERAL MEDIA
      to
      NEED A FAIRY TALE?
      WATCH LIBERAL MEDIA
      or
      THE LIBERAL MEDIA
      IS A BAD JOKE

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:11pm

      Really?/ And this story has only 92 comments! Well, 93 – including this one – since 2.10pm. a bit sad, don’t you think??

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  • grandma7
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:36pm

    If it’s not race, it’s religion. Tired of this broken record!!

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:42pm

      The P&L‘s don’t UNDERSTAND race (or they couldn‘t throw it around like they do when it DOESN’T apply!). And they’re AFRAID of religion, it is TRUTH IN ACTION!

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  • thuth 1
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:33pm

    Blinded by the light!
    Walker is not fighting the workers like the liberal media would have you believe he is fight the corrupt union bosses who forcefully take the union dues and buy elections with the money. Thats how the corrupt, incompetent, pathetically weak Obama was installed in the WH.

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  • dswynne1
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:33pm

    The real issue is the Democratic “slush fund” called “union dues”, stemming from tax revenue.

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  • barrycooper
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:31pm

    Coopt, force into compromise, corrupt, repeat: this is the Leftist mantra.

    Why are Van Jones and Michael Moore using Christian language? They know that many Christians are conservatives, for the obvious reason that moral balance is absent on the Left. There is no yin to the yang of unrelenting calls for more laxity in our relations with all forms of aberration and abomination.

    All actions have effects on all the people that are affected. This is obviously tautological, but leftists speak as if they can achieve only the consequences they want–here, keeping the gravy train rolling–without the consequences they don’t want–here, State and then national bankruptcy, and the cessation of ALL services and the “innovation” of generalized poverty, and then necessary tyranny.

    Try throwing a stone into water and only getting ripples on one side. I can’t do it. Neither can they.

    If they are leftists, and they are speaking, they are trying to trick you. You may not always be able to see how, but particularly if they are trying to speak the language of their sworn enemies, beware Greeks bearing gifts, particularly if they are large wooden horses.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:36pm

      I have news for Van Jones: Hanging a cross around your neck does not make you a Christian. It makes you a Communist with a cross hanging around your neck.

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    • Seneca
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:27am

      You know who else hung a cross from his neck? Castro. When he came down from Sierra maestra and well into his first year of dictatorship, he wore a cross. This is of course before he declared himself an atheist and later on in life a “santero” Communists are a constantly evolving bunch, this is a result of their lack of principle and amoral way of life.

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  • awizard
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:25pm

    Well she got one thing right … Walker has no “check” on him … spiritual or otherwise, the State is BROKE!.. If these union clowns get their way, there will be nothing to get …

    I didn’t hear much religion being thrown around in this mess, unless you want to count the compassion shown in not wanting to lay off public workers, and trying to fix the mess he was elected to fix?..

    Oh, wait a minute … she’s selling a book, there‘s one I’ll run out and buy … [sarcasm]

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:16pm

      The unions are so blinded to the facts that they just don’t get that if they stick to their position,they are guaranteed a job loss. The “new” contracts being negotiated in the middle of the night will guarantee even more job losses. These people tied a cord around their own necks and are feverishly climbing trees looking for a branch secure enough to solidly snap their necks.

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  • aLinedog
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:23pm

    @The Blaze:
    Thank you for posting these items from HuffPo. I can make myself watch CNN, and even MSNBC -on rare occasion. I like to know what the other side is saying, that being said. I will not visit the websites of any of them, and would rather slit my wrist than give Arianna a single ‘click’ for her advertisers to misunderstand. We need to deport that hideous wench, and for the record: were I to have as much cash as her sugar-daddy had…I’d find a much more palatable bed warmer. Call me shallow, but hey…
    -line

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:48pm

      I went to the story, what a strange place the HuffPo is. There are very few comments on the story, and a really solid portion(non-scientific sample) was calling her out. The only rebuttals were name calling and ad-hominem. I guess that is where our trolls come from. It is like reading some of the lefty trolls first posts before they are spanked straight or they just worm away. If this is the kind of thing they share amongst themselves, they can keep it. Very ugly groupthink.

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    • Simonne
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:41pm

      I stopped going to that website. Who wants to read such bs. I hope Gov. Walker sticks to his gun & that the people of Wisconsin continue to support him. The leaders of these unions encourage their members to bully those who have different viewpoints & that is putting it nicely.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:49pm

      AlineDog – the wonderful story of the Bible is that Christ loves Adrienna as much as He loves you!!
      Luke chapter 5.

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  • Resolved
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:22pm

    Because forcing an employee (in a non Right-To-Work-State) to pay dues to a political organization whose interest may not necessarily coincide with his own is compassionate?

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  • hopnmad
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:17pm

    I don’t call bankrupting a state “creative political change” I can it reckless and just plain stupid

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:23pm

      Same thing applies to the nation, too.

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:25pm

      The Left are off it’s rocker!!!

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:32pm

      @ Showtime..This is how off their rockers Libs really are: they can‘t create new jobs but they want to dismantle this country and create a new system in it’s place. I wonder how why that’ll go?

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:34pm

      darn! I mean I wonder how well that’ll go?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:56pm

      @hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:32pm
      @ Showtime..This is how off their rockers Libs really are: they can‘t create new jobs but they want to dismantle this country and create a new system in it’s place. I wonder how well that’ll go?
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      I don’t have any evidence that the dumb farts are smarter than our Founders.

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:02pm

      @ Showtime..That’s the point – they’re NOT! God help us all if they succeed!

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:14pm

    Wisconsins elected Walker to do a job, and he’s trying his best to do what is asked, for the best of the larger majority of Wisconsins than just the imported union members and teachers in their unions.

    Those union thugs are trying to hijack the Wisconsin government Their FIST logo is meant to be intimidating. (I’m shaking in my boots, Communist thugs!)

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:18pm

      Showtime..that’s the problem they have with Walker – he’s actually doing his job. Much of the Left wants this country to go belly up – Walker’s trying to stop his state from that fate and they hate him for it!

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    • mill
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:51pm

      Beck has pointed out the sign to us , the correlation and the meaning. Frankly I would not have noticed or paid attention..
      It is a disgrace to America!
      It is a disgrace to have these people anywhere near our children.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:00pm

      Well said Showtime.

      This Diana Butt(misspelling intentional)ler Bass has a good schtick going for her smug self.
      She is just another of the leftist C- students who got A‘s and B’s on their report cards. This country seems to be awash in them.
      Sadly she is common sense and wisdom challenged.
      She is broken and she can’t be fixed!

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:13pm

    It’s The Huffington Post,What else do you expect from them other than Marxism?

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:10pm

    Yeah yeah yeah.
    Look who’s talking!

    Showtime  
    • TruthTalker
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:15pm

      Oh great. Now the Atheists are telling us what good Christiams and bad Christians are…

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:20pm

      As with the olds saying “But of course…” only this time instead of asking for a particular fancy bit of mustard, they are just huffing and puffing in the efforts against another truly responsible Governor who is trying to do the right things needed to balance his budget and keep his state prosperous while he stays within the duties and promises made to the voters.

      @Grandmaof5 (when you read this)

      Afternoon, hope today is good with the weather and the kitties; just wanted you to know I have a new sketch up in my gallery, she is a simple free hand human girl, I doodled up the other day and thought people might like to see. Just click the link on my screen name to go to it.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:26pm

      @SnowLeopard ~

      I’m thinking of changing my name to “Kitty Litter” just so I will fit in (even though I have a dog). :-)

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:31pm

      Most bloggers who stand in opposition (to put it politely) of a conservative member who is seeking to do what the people want usually can summarize their arguments this way…

      I will use the case of Gov Christie for an example…

      “Gov Christie is wrong for opposing/denigrating/denying the (insert social group) due to his evil set values and beliefs…he is so wrong…”

      That is it in a nutshell.

      Just remember Gov Christie, when they throw the kitchen sink your way, they have run out of effort and steam; and provided free renovation material for your home.

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    • CottonMPG
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:34pm

      This person is obviously one of the many who do not understand the Bible and the nature of God.

      “Because it lacks the ability to compromise, it is profoundly anti-democratic. Many faith traditions actually possess deep spiritual resources that allow them to participate in pluralistic, democratic, and creative political change. But those sort of traditions tend emphasize the love of God and neighbor over strict obedience to an unyielding Father God.”

      As Jesus told the hypocritical religious leaders of His day about following the law but not acting in love, “You ought to do the one without leaving the other undone!” There is no room to compromise what is required by God. Compromise of one’s core values is the political disease that is killing our country!!

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    • felina g
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:36pm

      How far is the Left willing to take the con for the radical ends ?

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    • LAM2
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:49pm

      He who controls the language controls the debate. Biblical compassion involves voluntarily giving of one’s own time, talents and treasure to help those in need and is an act done out of love for God and others — both the giver and the recipient are blessed. This is laudable and praiseworthy. The leftists have redefined compassion as the coersive force of government confiscating wealth and redistributing it to their favored constituencies — the “giver” feels robbed and resentful and the recipients either are made dependent or become indebted in some way to their political benefactors. This is dispicable and worthy of condemnation. When evil is repackaged as good, we must challenge it.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:54pm

      @felina g
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:36pm
      How far is the Left willing to take the con for the radical ends ?
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Felina, they stay up all night to figure this crap out. And, I believe it was a liberal who stayed up all night to figure out how to fold a map so that it could not be refolded easily!

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    • DogTags
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:55pm

      Francis Schaeffer said in “A Christian Manifesto” that liberal theology is nothing more than secular humanism in religious terms. Liberal theology inevitably comes down on the side of the secular humanist. Whether it is abortion, homosexuality, social welfare, the liberal theologian will always side with the secular humanist.

      A “bad Christian” is one who believes unborn children are not created in the image of God, homosexuality is a valuable lifestyle choice and forced confiscation of personal property to redistribute to the “poor” is “godly charity.”

      Gov. Walker may not have cited religious reasons to be fiscally responsible, but he certainly is following Christian principles.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:00pm

      @HopnMad ~
      Honest? No.
      Smarter? No.

      They prefer to point fingers and call names (like playground children) because the ones who are trying DESPERATELY to save this country from falling into Communism will not compromise. But will the finger-pointers, liars, and name-callers compromise? Well, they have not compromised so far on my watch. In fact, they left the state and bussed in the SEIU! (Tee shirts and all!)!

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:16pm

      Where is Dan Aykroyd when you need him ?

      Time for the ROVCO Super Bass -o- Matic to come off the shelves

      Laraine Newman WOW This is terrific bass

      Is this a death threat?

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:25pm

      CottonMPG;]

      Well Said.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:27pm

      When will the huffingpost-AOL tell the truth…for the MOST part bloggers state opinions NOT Facts and it showes…Dumb is as dumb dose…

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:14pm

      Walker is small peanuts, do something important; tell us please how deep Obama is.

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    • pax_fratrem
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:15pm

      “Scott Walker’s religion is actually dangerous in the public square. Because it lacks the ability to compromise, it is profoundly anti-democratic”

      Compromise died in 2009. Pelosi, Reid, and Obama killed it with Obamacare. Compromise died when Pelosi’s gavel was carried through our Teaparty protestors. It dies each time a Union Thug strikes our Teaparty brother or sister. Compromise dies when 14 WI Senators run out-of-state.

      Compromise is certainly dead. It is now time to save our nation.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:19pm

      Just WHO is anyone from the liberal leaning Huffpost to tell us who is Christian or not? Those people probably don’t even know what it means let alone criticize the matter. I believe the Gov. is doing all he can to be civil with the idiot teachers (whom I wouldn’t want teaching my children; the way they’re acting at the state house, Yikes! They may go back eventually to the classroom, but my kids will be home taught, not by a pack of lying thieves who only want the best for themselves instead of the best for “the children” and the state. You people are sick at the huffpost and all the Union thugs defying the best for the state, including the idiots camping out, making fools of themselves. There, I said it and I’m glad. Sicko thugs are what you folks are, not teachers.

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:46pm

      Luke – Chapter 5. AKA the Beatitudes.

      This man is no more following the teachings of the Christ than I would want to keep an alligator as a pet in my house. Walker and the alligator would BOTH consume anyone within range to better their own ends.

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    • Awakened One
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:06pm

      Walker wasn’t elected to compromise with Union thugs. He was elected because previous legislators compromised with Union thugs. His assignment from voters is clear: fix this mess of a Union controlled state government. Stop this liberal/Marxist/progressive attack on sensible governance.

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    • drbage
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:13pm

      Would love to hear Ms. Bass’s point of view regarding the Westboro Baptist Church!!!!

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    • GEW
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:47pm

      Cant get him on the facts, SCREAM oh my gosh, he’s a CHRISTIAN…what a crock of udo.

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    • copper
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:26pm

      Part of their mo is to turn known truth upside down. Right is now wrong, wrong is now right. Change the meanings or rename it.

      This is another social justice promoter, and there have been plenty in the Roman Church simply because they wanted to control and distribute the largess therefore gaining control over larger groups of people. That is NOT Christian.

      The Unions are corrupt thugs who buy Democrats to ensure they get more of the taxpayers money. The ones being stolen from and suffering the most are the taxpayers. Its a scam.

      Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Investments was on CNBC’s Squakbox. They were amazed that his #1 & 2 agendas to help this country is to repeal OBAMACare #1 and Finance Reform #2. When he went to the hill when they were ramming ObamaCare thru he asked one of the Dems what would they do the 11th year if it takes 10 years of revenue to pay for 6 yrs of care. He replied, “I’m 80!” (I’ll be gone). So they just don’t care….just like the Union thugs and Union members rioting. If Union members get the vote of cutting pay and keeping jobs the majority will vote NOT TO CUT….because they DON’T CARE about those under them. They try to make you think its about equality – IT’S NOT!!!

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:47pm

      Why do Liberals always use pure conjecture to try to prove a point!! Liberal dogma is all that it is!!!!!!

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:53pm

      Just another idiot with a laptop. It is time to take action against these entitlement persons who always believe the government, who they are part of and pay for, needs compassion in order to balance a budget. What she doesn’t understand is I have numerous bills and a mortgage to pay for, why doesn’t the compassionate government just pay these off for me so I can just sit around and blog.

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    • ozz
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:36pm

      Compromise? God? God does not compromise. Satan compromises. God is straight up.
      Silly ********.

      EPIC FAIL!!

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:33pm

      @ VERYSENIOR…….Hahahhahaha The beatitudes are NOT Luke chapter 5. Be careful if you are going to use Scripture. It is similar to using a gun. If you don‘t use a gun very much and aren’t very careful it is easy to shoot yourself. Obviously you have exposed your lack of knowledge of scripture so maybe you be wiser to remain quite on this issue.

      Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues. Proverbs

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:25pm

      So this Lefty is claiming to be the arbitrator of Good Christendom.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:15pm

      Shallow, or in this case FAKE, Christians trying to explain to the rest of us what constitutes being a good Christian never cease to amaze me.

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:09am

      WATCHTHEOTHERHAND – My sincere apologies – I said Luke 5. I will correct that to Mathey 5.

      However, the Beatitudes STILL apply – I guess with the exception of folks like governor Walker. I could also quote from a couple of books that Christians of the Middle Ages have REFUSED to allow to be included in that book – but you wouldn’t believe me anyway!

      Have a nice night!

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    • Chrono_Sleuth
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:10am

      I find it interesting she both denounces and renounces faith all in one. As though Christianity is good so long as one is not obligated to “obey god” as though anyone who is like Walker is a nut without calling him a nut. Clever, just sad knowing how many people will be duped into that cyclical and shallow reasoning and completely forget the real story, that there are actual numbers, deficits, taxes, and a government to run.

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:13am

      @ watchtheotherhand:

      Actually, I’m glad “snowleopard” did not remain “QUIET” and spoke out, albeit citing the wrong Gospel and apologized and corrected it below you to Matthew 5! As you state in your misspelling: She is QUITE a lady! Maybe more than one should check their words. . .

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:15am

      Maybe I should stay “quite,” I referenced snowleopard when I meant to reference veryseniorcitizen–intent of post still applies.

      Passion, a “controlling” thing!

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:54pm

      @ HILLBILLYINNY…….what you posted doesn’t make much sense because you meant VERYSENIOR rather than SNOWLEOPARD and VERYSENIOR misspelled Matthew not me !!!!! The beatitudes do not teach what you think they do in regard to this issue. And remember if I wanted to use an incorrect exegesis I could use the beatitudes against you and VERYSENIOR and ask about “judge not lest ye be judged” in regard to this story. But that would be an incorrect application of that teaching to this story and I would be guilty of the same faulty application as you both were. That is what VERYSENIOR has done and it is erroneous as to the teaching of Christ on the sermon on the Mount !!!!!!! I would love to see your scriptural reference and exegesis of the scripture as to how this story would be correct !!!!!

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    • waggie
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 4:21pm

      Judge not, Ms. Walker, lest ye be judged.

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 4:22pm

      @ HILLBILLY….there is QUITE a difference between a typo that happens on almost every post and the incorrect reference that was given. Please QUIT trying to EQUATE the two. And there is a time where all of us should have probably been QUIET rather than speak on something we really didn’t know about. See a typo is what VERYSENIOR did with Matthew and I did not correct it. But an incorrect reference was not a typo it was just wrong.

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    • WIjoyzie
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 12:19am

      The lefty author does of course explain in her writings that Scott is the son of a preacher from the small town of Delavan WI… or did she conveniently leave out that detail?

      Where do these unhinged people come up with this garbage?

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