There's a lot of Trump in Walker. Vice versa, too. Here's a quick 10:
1. Trump shut down the government, Walker shut down key executive powers for his predecessor.
2. Trump fired his Attorney General, Walker hamstrung the next state Attorney General.
3. Trump is blindly enabled by GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, while Walker has been similarly enabled by GOP State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.
4. Trump had Ryan Zinke torch the environment at Interior and Scott Pruitt to do the same at the USEPA - - and continued by equally compliant, pro-industry fill-ins - - and Walker had Cathy Stepp and a clutch of water-carrying senior staffers and replacements to implement similar, pro-polluter agendas.
5. Trump is withdrawing federal protections for waterways, while Walker rolled back phosphorous discharge rules and manure runoff enforcement. And also signed legislation releasing 100,000 wetland acres from state protections and exempted Foxconn from routine wetland, legal and environmental procedures.
6. Trump is weakening clean air rules and keeping polluting coal plants in service, while Walker joined litigation against federal clean air initiatives and got Pruitt to exempt enough of SE Wisconsin from toughened air quality rules so Foxconn could emit extra thousands of tons of air pollution annually.
7. Trump's cabinet secretaries have deleted climate change from official websites, as did Walker's DNR. Both men have watched passively while major cities flooded repeatedly as the climate warms and storms intensify. - - just as state and federal experts have been warning for years.
8. Trump never had his infrastructure week, day, month, year or nanosecond, and Walker is leaving behind state roads pockmarked with 'Scottholes' and a transportation budget soaked in debt.
9. Trump pledged to go around the just-passed farm bill and order food stamp cutoffs to some low-income recipients, while Walker got Trump to grant him that same authority - - which Walker's enabling little men in the Legislature just made law through their lame-duck power grabbing bill.
10 Trump is pledged to destroy Obamacare, while Walker gave the Attorney General unenthusiastic permission to join the lawsuit aimed at overturning Obamacare - - which a federal just just did, so a win-win for both Trump and Walker.
And here's a bonus 11th similarly. Walker may have escaped the reach of prosecutors, and Trump and his inner circle are already not that lucky - - but each put themselves there through bad decisions and weak character.
1. Trump shut down the government, Walker shut down key executive powers for his predecessor.
2. Trump fired his Attorney General, Walker hamstrung the next state Attorney General.
3. Trump is blindly enabled by GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, while Walker has been similarly enabled by GOP State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.
4. Trump had Ryan Zinke torch the environment at Interior and Scott Pruitt to do the same at the USEPA - - and continued by equally compliant, pro-industry fill-ins - - and Walker had Cathy Stepp and a clutch of water-carrying senior staffers and replacements to implement similar, pro-polluter agendas.
5. Trump is withdrawing federal protections for waterways, while Walker rolled back phosphorous discharge rules and manure runoff enforcement. And also signed legislation releasing 100,000 wetland acres from state protections and exempted Foxconn from routine wetland, legal and environmental procedures.
6. Trump is weakening clean air rules and keeping polluting coal plants in service, while Walker joined litigation against federal clean air initiatives and got Pruitt to exempt enough of SE Wisconsin from toughened air quality rules so Foxconn could emit extra thousands of tons of air pollution annually.
7. Trump's cabinet secretaries have deleted climate change from official websites, as did Walker's DNR. Both men have watched passively while major cities flooded repeatedly as the climate warms and storms intensify. - - just as state and federal experts have been warning for years.
8. Trump never had his infrastructure week, day, month, year or nanosecond, and Walker is leaving behind state roads pockmarked with 'Scottholes' and a transportation budget soaked in debt.
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| Walker and Trump have been busy digging their own holes, too. |
9. Trump pledged to go around the just-passed farm bill and order food stamp cutoffs to some low-income recipients, while Walker got Trump to grant him that same authority - - which Walker's enabling little men in the Legislature just made law through their lame-duck power grabbing bill.
10 Trump is pledged to destroy Obamacare, while Walker gave the Attorney General unenthusiastic permission to join the lawsuit aimed at overturning Obamacare - - which a federal just just did, so a win-win for both Trump and Walker.
And here's a bonus 11th similarly. Walker may have escaped the reach of prosecutors, and Trump and his inner circle are already not that lucky - - but each put themselves there through bad decisions and weak character.
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