If he made an actual appropriations cut, yeah. If he just declined to spend the money using his discretion as governor to enforce the law, then no, unless Kentucky’s legislature has an anti-impoundment act like the US Congress passed in response to Nixon’s similar actions. Or if there is actually something in the Kentucky Constitution. If not, then this is a stupid liberal idea, not a stupid Republican idea.
Here’s a link to the story:
It never ceases to annoy me how journalists fail to report on the part of the story that actually matters, as in, “What does Kentucky law say about this dispute?” It’s just he said vs. he said reporting, the kind of fake objectivity that Jon Stewart spent his career rightfully trashing.
Bryan Adams has now similarly canceled his Mississippi concert over the religious law there. My Tea Party S-I-L went on a long Facebook rant about how these rich performers can “pressure the public to have things their way”, wrapping up with “Music should not be withheld for political agendas”. I pointed out that the Mississippi law lets people withhold services based on their personal beliefs and Adams was merely doing the same. I’ll spare you the second rant that followed.
Hey, if I have to friend these people on Facebook because they’re family, I’m gonna poke them when they say dumb stuff.
Man, I would love to hear how she justified the idea that Bryan Adams should perform in a state that legislates bigotry in violation of his values, but the baker down the street shouldn’t have to make a gay wedding cake.
I heard this on Limbaugh ’ radio show yesterday … a more perfect example of right wing logic I don’t think you’re likely to find (all paraphrased):
We know that global warming is nothing but a hoax because if it were settled science (like, for example, gravity) there would be no argument against it. So - obviously - since we’re arguing about it, it can’t be true. QED.
The TN legislature is in the midst of passing the “TN Bathroom Bill” which would require all students in the state to use the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate. To protect our wives and daughters, see. (Note that TN is one of the few - only? - state that does not permit post-operative trangender folks to change their birth certificate).
As a Texas solicitor general in 2004, he argued that Americans have no right to sell sex toys or even have the right to masturbate at all. “There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship” he argued in defense of a state ban on dildos.