... Walker said he was trying to avoid tackling issues that would attract the massive protests that resulted from his collective bargaining bill in 2011. Employers told me “we need things to be stable, we need some certainty,” Walker said.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has once again put his interesting set of priorities on display, while coming up with a novel new excuse for why his state's job creation has been so weak under his leadership. Wisconsin's private-sector job creation ranking has been hovering in the 40s (that's out of 50, of course), and Walker has finally abandoned pretending things are great , as he did for so long. Instead, he's now blaming it all on the protesters And now that he's doing things in the name of avoiding protest, he's ... planning to sign a bill forcing women to get ultrasounds they don't want before having abortions they do. He also seems inclined to sign a bill letting some employers refuse to include contraception in their health insurance coverage, and a couple more to boot. Because forced ultrasounds and opposition to contraception arepopular.

Walker claims to care about jobs, but the only thing he and his Republican allies seem to be fast-tracking these days are bills designed to rob women of control of their own bodies, making abortion more difficult while making it more expensive to avoid getting pregnant in the first place.

And blaming his own jobs failure on the people who protested his first attack on Wisconsin's workers? Pitiful.