Attention Senator Ron Johnson: Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin will be on the Senate Budget Committee. If you need advice regarding anything budget-related, I suggest you contact her. She can do arithmetic.
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This week on “Rants without Pants”, I discuss Gwen Moore and Ron Johnson’s take on the economy, the fiscal cliff and the Grover Norquist pledge, New Glarus owner’s invitation to the White House and Mayor Dave’s bitter article regarding Sly in the Morning. 00:00 5:40 – WI Rep. Gwen Moore on the Fiscal Cliff [...] In what should have been no brainer legislation, our US Congress once again played political brinksmanship with House bill HR 4348, not passing it until just days before the affected programs expired. The combined bill (why can’t we actually do bills that cover only a single topic or at least related topics after all the [...] Watch as Wisconsin’s soon-to-be senior Senator Ron Johnson explains his belief that businesses should be allowed to deny health insurance to cancer patients because “our nation was based on the foundation of freedom and limited government.” (via Thinkprogress: Here’s the transcript of Sen. Johnson’s comments. KEYES: I know Richard Murdock had said even though [...] While many of us have been laser-focused on the upcoming recall election, Senator Ron Johnson has been busy making bizarre statements. But Johnson is not the only Republican making absurd declarations. Tommy Thompson, Eric Hovde, and Mark Neumann have all been hard at work trying to out-Tea-Party one another in the race for U.S. Senate. [...] No, not Tom Barrett–though, forfightinbobssake, go support the crap out of him–but, rather someone else. With his loss in Indiana’s primary last night, we’ll no longer have a Dick Lugar in the US Senate. That leaves a badger–Wisconsin’s very own Ron Johnson–with the Senate’s most juvenile name. Congrats, Sen. Johnson! Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka moves [...] In a bit of good news, the United States Senate voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994. by a vote of 68-31. However, among the Senators voting against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (all Republican men, mind you) was Wisconsin’s Junior Senator, Ron Johnson. In a statement explaining why [...] Something tells me talking more than you listen isn’t a great idea when you’re new to the United States Senate and trying to learn how things work. “He’s an interesting case study of someone who has talked more than he has listened, lectured more than he has developed relationships with his colleagues, and now he’s [...] Ron Johnson, bases a campaign on, and continually says that Obamacare is THE greatest assault on freedom in his lifetime. We do not know much about Rojo, and he not talk to or listen to any Wisconsin citizens, but we know he is dead set against Obamacare. Then he endorses mitt Romney? Whose Romney care [...] |
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