Scott Walker wants to drug test food stamp recipients. That shows why he’ll never be president.

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Scott Walker wants to drug test food stamp recipients. That shows why he’ll never be president.


By Paul Waldman July 16 at 12:25 PM

Sixteen years ago, George W. Bush presented to America his vision of “compassionate conservatism,” and in response he received an absolute torrent of glowing articles in the media calling him a “different kind of Republican” — conservative, to be sure, but not so mean about it.

Well those days are long past. In the 2016 GOP primaries, it’s compassionless conservatism that’s in fashion.

Or at least that’s what Scott Walker seems to think, because among other things, he is hell-bent on making sure that anyone who gets food stamps in Wisconsin has to endure the humiliation of submitting to a drug test. First the Wisconsin legislature sent him a bill providing that the state could test food stamp recipients if it had a reasonable suspicion they were on drugs; he used his line-item veto to strike the words “reasonable suspicion,” so the state could test any (or all) recipients it wanted. And now, because federal law doesn’t actually allow drug testing for food stamp recipients, Walker is suing the federal government on the grounds that food stamps are “welfare,” and welfare recipients can be tested.

This is why Scott Walker is never going to be president of the United States.

First, some context. .........

But this hasn’t discouraged politicians like Walker, any more than the abysmal failure of abstinence-only sex education discourages them from continuing to advocate it. The test is the point, not the result. Walker isn’t trying to solve a practical problem here. He wants to test food stamp recipients as a way of expressing moral condemnation. You can get this benefit, he’s saying, but we want to give you a little humiliation so you know that because you sought the government’s help, we think you’re a rotten person.

To be clear, there is no inherent connection between drug use and food stamps.....

What does this have to do with Walker’s chances of winning a general election? ............

[Gothmog]

1. Walker really hates poor people

[riversedge]

2. If Walker had

any compassion in his soul at all--it flew the coop with his deep desire to be President at all costs.

[Still In Wisconsin]

5. He has no compassion because he is a sociopath

Scott Walker knows nothing- nothing- but his own personal ambition. He is a political opportunist of the worst sort. He will say or do anything at any time in order to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Ronny Raygun.

[riversedge]

6. spot on!

[Half-Century Man]

3. Walker does things because he was paid.

Who is suppling the drug test kits, how much do they cost per unit, how big will the order be now and in the future, and how accurate are the tests? Somebody (real person or corporate creature) will be getting paid by Wisconsin very well.

This serves the conservative agenda in multiple ways, 1) gives yet another way to reduce social safety nets, 2) shames victims, 3) further divides people, so they are less likely to band together and votes TPTB out, 4) rewards somebody with pork barrel contracts for some reason. Walker moves fastest and fights hardest for the last reason alone.

I'm betting a contributor to one or all of the super pacs centered on Walker is going to make out like a bandit, literally.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Walker is nothing more than an empty suit Kock weasel