What's Wrong With Washington?: Ramifications and Results

It’s Friday and this is “What’s Wrong With Washington”. I am Lance Pisowicz. I had a great time at the waterpark today, and I hope you enjoyed your day as well. Tonight we are finally returning to our normal presentation with several topics that have been important in the news over the past few weeks. I have just a couple of reminders before we begin. Please do check out my website, Lance Pisowicz Online (www.wix.com/lancejp/online). Also become a subscriber of my Youtube Channel (www.youtube.com/lancejp/online), like my Facebook (www.facebook.com/lancepisowicz), or follow me on Twitter (www.twitter.com/lancejponline). You can also subscribe to my blogs on blogger (www.wrongwithwashington.blogspot.com and www.lancesweeklywalk.blogspot.com). It would be a pleasure for me and everyone else involved with Lance Pisowicz Online if you would join us there sometime.

As I said earlier, we are returning to our normal blog tonight now that it is summer and everything seems to have calmed down just a little bit. Most of you already know this, but just for the record: I will not be holding any weekly polls while the Ultimate Patriot Competition and Sweepstakes in the months of June and July. For those of you who do not know what the Ultimate Patriot event is, be sure to pay extra attention at the end of the program for details regarding it all.

One of the greatest news stories of this past week was the results in Wisconsin’s Governor Recall Election. As many of you are aware, Governor Scott Walker was able to retain his position as governor of Wisconsin. He won a 53% majority over the Democratic challenger, Scott Barrett’s 46%.¹ But the question remains: what does this mean for the main election in November?

A loss in Wisconsin on Tuesday would not have devastated the Republicans, but it would have given bad ramifications in regards to what direction the state would go in the presidential election. On the other hand, the fact that Walker was able to maintain his position after being elected in the GOP mass victories in 2010, gives a sign that 2012 may just be a little more like two years ago, than how things were four years ago.

Wisconsin played a crucial role in electing President Obama in 2008 and losing the state’s ten electoral votes this time around might be another element capable of tipping the scale in favor of Mitt Romney.

The president may have even less support for him than he anticipated, not just in Wisconsin but around the country as well. Fox News now reports that 51% of Americans disapprove of the President’s performance, with 45% approving and 4% undecided.²

That leads me to my next topic for tonight. The reports on incoming funds for each presidential candidate in the month of May have been released. Mitt Romney has managed to raise $76.8 million while Barack Obama raised $60 million.³ My initial though was excitement. Conservatives, Independents, and fed-up Democrats alike have come together to make a change in November. However, when I considered the fact that President Obama still raised $16.4 million more than he raised in April and the fact that he has outpaced Romney in just about every other month of the campaign gave me another thought - the fight has just begun. Take into account that Mitt did not have combined support in the past months that he now has. Although Romney was the presumed candidate in April, Americans were still just beginning to rally around him. Also consider the fact that Obama had raised $196.9 million by the end of March, while Romney had just $87.5 million.⁴ However, the month of May attests that America might just be taken back, even if Mitt Romney and his supporters have to work twice as hard.

Finally, we conclude tonight to take a look at something that was very big in the news last week. Many of you heard about the movement to nationally ban sex-selective abortions after several videos exposed the details in how Planned Parenthood is dealing with patients who request such atrocities. Bipartisan cooperation has led to 77% of Americans to support laws that would ban abortions based on gender.⁵ However, the most recent attempt to ban this practice failed after Congress was unable to gain the necessary two-thirds majority to make it law. A vote of 246-146 was in favor of the bill, with twenty Democrats voting in favor of it and seven Republicans voting against it.⁶ Unfortunately it was not enough to make it the “law of the land.”

What I think is most understood about this proposition and the concept of practicing sex-selective abortions, is the fact that it is a completely separate issue from the concept of abortion itself. Personally I am Pro-Life, but even if I were Pro-Choice I would recognize the fact that choosing whether or not one should have a child based on whether it will be a boy or a girl is the original form of discrimination. When the left accuses Republicans of having a “war on women” they are being as hypocritical as humanly possible by conducting their “war on little women”. I am a person who believes everyone deserves an equal opportunity to life, but what if there was a way to determine whether a child would be heterosexual or homosexual before birth, the same people who condone or even advocate sex-selective abortions would have a fit if we were to condone sexual orientation-based abortions. Obviously both of these propositions are ridiculous, but the fact is that one of them is currently legal in nearly every state in the nation. While the nation is much more divided on the issue of abortion as a whole, a clear majority, nearly eight out of ten Americans believe that sex-based abortions are discriminatory.

This concludes our three mini-subjects for tonight, but I do have several closing announcements. For those of you wondering about the Ultimate Patriot competition and sweepstakes, I encourage you to visit the official website of the event at: www.wix.com/lancejp/patriot for more information. There you will find documents, links, a promo video, and a whole lot more. By the way, the entire event is free and you have the opportunity to win a $25 Restaurants.com E-Gift Certificate if you participate. I hope you’ll join us with that. Also, If you would like to have the opportunity to share your thoughts with me and all the viewers/readers of Lance Pisowicz Online, you can leave me a message/reply that might even be shared on the show, be sure to head over to: http://lponline.wufoo.com/forms/z7x3k7/ to take part in that.

I hope you have enjoyed our broadcast tonight, as much as I have. Thanks again, and God bless you all. See you Sunday!

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Ramifications and Results

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