Scott Walker's big fat lie to Wisconsin voters on abortion

A New York Times piece reported Tuesday that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker actually asked GOP lawmakers to send him the very abortion bill that he had declined to take a position on while campaigning for re-election last fall. Tim Gabriel has the details:

Mr. Walker repeatedly refused to say if he favored such a ban during his close re-election last year, when polls showed him unpopular among women. In March, as doubts about his anti-abortion credentials were raised by national conservatives, he pledged to sign a 20-week ban that was “likely to come to my desk.”

What he did not explain was that he had asked Wisconsin lawmakers to send him just such a bill, during a meeting in his office with Mr. Fitzgerald and Robin Vos, the speaker of the State Assembly, also a Republican.

“Walker weighed in and said the 20-week abortion ban is something he would like to see hit his desk,” Mr. Fitzgerald said. “It sent a message to us.”

The governor specified that the bill should include no exceptions for rape or incest, according to Mr. Fitzgerald.

Oh, so it's basically his bill—he asked for it. But during the election, old Shifty Walker refused to say whether he would sign such a bill or not. I guess no one thought to ask whether he would just go ahead and ask his fellow lawmakers to write the bill.

Scott Walker has waged a supercharged war on women. He just lies about his intentions whenever it suits him.