REP. JOE WALSH TO SANDRA FLUKE: YOU'RE 31, ‘GO GET A JOB'
REP. JOE WALSH TO SANDRA FLUKE: YOU'RE 31, ‘GO GET A JOB'
- Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:32am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) said Saturday that Sandra Fluke should "get a job." (Image source: YouTube)
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) had a message for Sandra Fluke during a campaign stop on Saturday: You're 31 years old, "go get a job."
Prefacing his comments as a "rant," Walsh called the Georgetown Law School graduate's speech at the Democratic National Convention "embarrassing."
"Think about this, a 31, 32-year-old-law student who has been a student for life, gets up there in front of a national audience and tells the American people, ‘I want America to pay for my contraceptives.' You're kidding me. Go get a job. Go get a job, Sandra Fluke," he said to applause at a diner in Addison, Ill.
Fluke shot to prominence earlier this year after Rush Limbaugh referred to her as a "slut" on his radio program following her testimony before a congressional panel in support of contraception coverage.
"I was offended," Walsh continued. "We've got Americans who are struggling. ... They're going to put a woman in front of us who is complaining that the country - you, me and you - won't pay the nine dollars a month to pay for her contraceptives. How crazy is this?"
Walsh said that "in a way it's not her fault" because of a culture that teaches people "government will be there for you."
"We are raising the Sandra Flukes of the world," he said. "We're raising Americans who don't know how to take care of themselves, who feel entitled. This a woman who feels entitled that we all should pay for her contraceptives. This is what we're teaching Americans? That was embarrassing. That was embarrassing."
And the morons just keep talking - It's getting just sad.
This is actually pretty funny, although I don't like this guy. After she declared in public she's spent $1000 a year for three years on birth control she became some sort of heroine for the women's rights groups who have abandoned any pretenses about protecting women's rights and instead are the pro-abortion lobby.
But, there is a unique level of hypocrisy in demanding the government force insurance companies provide free birth control while at the same time demanding that same government to not regulate abortions. Government involved in healthcare, or government not involved in healthcare? Take your pick.
Whoa whoa whoa...Where the fuck are these people that birth control is $9 a month?! If I didn't have health insurance mine would be $39.99!
Quoting Jesi_79:This is actually pretty funny, although I don't like this guy. After she declared in public she's spent $1000 a year for three years on birth control she became some sort of heroine for the women's rights groups who have abandoned any pretenses about protecting women's rights and instead are the pro-abortion lobby.
But, there is a unique level of hypocrisy in demanding the government force insurance companies provide free birth control while at the same time demanding that same government to not regulate abortions. Government involved in healthcare, or government not involved in healthcare? Take your pick.
Not for nothing...if the government provided women with free access to birth control, there would really be a minimal need for abortion. The fact that it's extremely hard for the uninsured to get birth control without Planned Parenthood which the Republicans always attack says that they don't feel we need birth control. Which if they truly want to prevent abortion they'd support birth control dispensers.
Quoting Sat.Wed:
Says the deadbeat dad
OH I SEE...I wonder has he paid in 2012
Wed Sep 14, 2011 at 07:00 PM PDT
Deadbeat Congressman Joe Walsh still not paying his child support
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Deadbeat)
A judge in Chicago issued a preliminary ruling Wednesday against U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) in the Tea Party favorite’s child-support dispute with his ex-wife, ordering Walsh to explain why he appears to be $100,000 behind on his child-support payments.Cook County Circuit Judge Raul Vega also wanted to know why Walsh wasn’t in court for the hearing — the McHenry Republican’s ex-wife, Laura Walsh was — and said he expects him to show up at the next hearing, in November.
Walsh’s new attorney, Janet Boyle, asked Vega “for what purpose” he wanted the congressman in court.
Vega gave her a puzzled look.
To which Boyle responded: “Mr. Walsh is a U.S. congressman.”
“Well, he’s no different than anyone else,” the judge said.
The issue remains Walsh's apparent refusal to pay $100,000 in overdue child support, while at the same time somehow scrounging up enough money to cut himself $35,000 checks for his own reelection. It is now up to Walsh to tell the court why he didn't pay the previously court-ordered amount (or produce evidence that he did pay it) or face contempt.
You would think that if Walsh wanted to get reelected, it might be worth paying his child support just to keep papers from constantly reporting on how he's not paying is child support. Apart from the whole "maybe you should support your own damn kids" part, of course. Also remember that this is the guy that got his driver's license suspended for not paying his car insurance. This guy is lecturing everyone on government responsibility, but he seems to have a hell of a lax attitude when it comes to his own financial obligations.
But it's nice to know that even congressmen are maybe expected to show up for their own court hearings, right? Even tea party congressmen, no less.
Oh well somehow he talked her into saying he wasn't a dead beat...
In July 2011, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Walsh's ex-wife, Laura, was suing him for $117,437 for past due child support dating from 2005 for three of the children.[14] Walsh allegedly told his ex-wife that he did not have the money because he was out of work.[14][61] Walsh's attorney said that Walsh did not owe "anywhere near that amount," and that he had had no more problems paying child support than "any other average guy".[61] Walsh and his ex-wife were reportedly trying to work out a settlement of the disputed past due amount as of late July 2011.[14] Walsh's financial problems inspired the proposal of a bill which would forbid people owing more than $10,000 in back child support from running for office in Illinois.[62] On April 20, 2012, a judge dismissed the child-support dispute. In a joint statement Walsh and his ex-wife Laura stated, "Having resolved these issues together and cleared up these mistakes in private, we now agree that Joe is not and was not a 'deadbeat dad' and does not owe child support."[63]
In August 2011, the Chicago Tribune reported that Walsh lost his driving privileges from mid-April to mid-July 2011 because he let his insurance lapse. In response, Walsh criticized the Tribune for "wast[ing] time and ink scrutinizing [his] driving record over the last 22 years rather than Washington's unsustainable spending".[19]
Quoting OneToughMami:
Quoting Sat.Wed:
Says the deadbeat dadOH I SEE...I wonder has he paid in 2012
Wed Sep 14, 2011 at 07:00 PM PDT
Deadbeat Congressman Joe Walsh still not paying his child support
Prelude to a mugshot
Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Deadbeat)
In never ceases to amaze me, the sort of people that the tea party looks to as heroes:
A judge in Chicago issued a preliminary ruling Wednesday
against U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) in the Tea Party favorite’s
child-support dispute with his ex-wife, ordering Walsh to explain why he
appears to be $100,000 behind on his child-support payments.
Cook County Circuit Judge Raul Vega also wanted to know why Walsh
wasn’t in court for the hearing — the McHenry Republican’s ex-wife,
Laura Walsh was — and said he expects him to show up at the next
hearing, in November.
Walsh’s new attorney, Janet Boyle, asked Vega “for what purpose” he wanted the congressman in court.
Vega gave her a puzzled look.
To which Boyle responded: “Mr. Walsh is a U.S. congressman.”
“Well, he’s no different than anyone else,” the judge said.
The issue remains Walsh's apparent refusal to pay $100,000 in overdue
child support, while at the same time somehow scrounging up enough
money to cut himself $35,000 checks for his own reelection. It is now up
to Walsh to tell the court why he didn't pay the previously
court-ordered amount (or produce evidence that he did pay it) or face
contempt.
You would think that if Walsh wanted to get reelected, it might be
worth paying his child support just to keep papers from constantly
reporting on how he's not paying is child support. Apart from the whole
"maybe you should support your own damn kids" part, of course. Also
remember that this is the guy that got his driver's license suspended
for not paying his car insurance.
This guy is lecturing everyone on government responsibility, but he
seems to have a hell of a lax attitude when it comes to his own
financial obligations.
But it's nice to know that even congressmen are maybe expected to show up for their own court hearings, right? Even tea party congressmen, no less.
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