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Establishment to Ron Johnson – “Get in Line”

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 17th, 2012 at 04:46 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Last year, Senator Ron Johnson (HAFA Score 94) ran for a Leadership post (not because he wanted to be in Leadership but because he wanted to change it). Roy Blunt (HAFA Score 63) beat him. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (HAFA 76) had hand picked Senator Blunt. Even though McConnell pulled out all the stops to help Blunt, Johnson still got 22 Republican votes, which is a signal that nearly half of the Conference is not satisfied with the current strategy coming out of McConnell’s shop.

Well it has gotten worse. Senate Republican Leadership staffers are now attacking Johnson either on behalf of leadership or because Senate GOP Leadership has lost control of their staff. Either way it’s bad, and Senators must be wondering about McConnell’s leadership skills.

After the leadership fight, instead of backing down, Johnson has voiced his displeasure with the lack of a coherent conservative strategy from McConnell’s office.

In typical fashion though, rather than taking Johnson’s advice and developing a conservative strategy, Leadership retaliated last week with a cowardly hit piece on Johnson. The article contained quotes from a “senior GOP aide.” The aide was too gutless to be named, but my Hill sources say it is likely someone from McConnell’s office.

The aide attacks Johnson for not “reaching out” enough to his colleagues despite getting 22 Senators to vote for him.

“While top Republican sources expressed exasperation at the internal turmoil in Johnson’s office, they also noted that the Wisconsin freshman has not been diligent in building relationships with other Senators within the Conference and has alienated himself by not reaching out more frequently to colleagues.
“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 having a tough time because of that behavior in advancing his policy goals,” one senior GOP aide said. “It’s kind of like watching a temper tantrum by a 2-year-old in the middle of the grocery store.”

“The Senate is still about relationships, and he doesn’t seem to get that,” the aide continued.”

Seriously? Our nation is $15 trillion in debt, and they think he should be wasting time “building relationships” and “reaching out?”

Ron Johnson did not come to Washington to “build relationships.” In fact, in September of 2010, just before his election, candidate Ron Johnson attended to a closed-door meeting of Republican Senators and told them point blank “I’m coming to join the fight, not the club.” Apparently he is doing just that. Good for him.

This is why we need to elect Ted Cruz in Texas, Clark Durant in Michigan, Josh Mandel in Ohio, Richard Mourdock in Indiana, Mark Neumann in Wisconsin, and Don Stenberg in Nebraska so we can elect a real Republican leader who will fight with conservatives instead of against us.

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  • pg1701

    AMEN!
    McConnell et al, have to go, because if we do get a majority in the House and Senate they will make the same mistakes we did before!

    Will real conservatives stand and be counted?

  • mirac777

    the fact that SenateGOP progressives will fight tooth and nail to retain elitest status at the expense of American freedom and prosperity. This is at the root of the problem, and is a perfect example of the “bullying”that big government grifters are trying to outlaw in grade schools. How about a bill to outlaw Progressive GOP debt-spenders from bullying other members of Congress who are trying to get our fiscal house in order? ( NO I am not proposing morew government)

  • mirac777

    We as a nation, either get real conservatives into power and regain some fiscal sanity soon or it will be imposed on us through Greek-style austerity measures… which will then further concentrate absolute power over the taxpayer’s purse into the hands of a small group of central government tyrants.

  • Bob

    The republican “establishment” becomes more like the democrats every day.
    The need for a 3rd party challenge is becoming obvious.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    nt

  • willopine

    Being from Wisconsin,I want the republican establishment to get the following message;
    Stop jerking around our Johnson!!

  • dyarbrough

    A third party which divides the conservative vote does nothing but hand government over to The Glorious People’s Democratic Socialist Party (a wholly owned subsidiary of the SEIU).

    We have to fix our own party from within, not abdicate.

  • dyarbrough

    but right now in Wisconsin you people have exactly one issue – saving your state, from the attack on your Governor by The Glorious People?s Democratic Socialist Party (a wholly owned subsidiary of the SEIU) – and thus preserving liberty for the rest of the country a little longer.

  • ohiohistorian

    of the Senate. McConnell is a tired old warhorse who wants to compromise instead of standing up for what is best for HIS State also (e.g. his positions vs. those of Rand Paul, the Junior Senator).

    Ron Johnson, NEVER EVER GIVE UP! Keep dumping their garbage back on them.

    As an Ohioan, I welcome anyone over Sherrod Brown, the “populist” candidate who seems to be nothing more than an Obama lapdog. Vote for Josh Mandel.

  • guidvce

    and “reach out” to the Senators to convert them to his conservative way of thinking. Get more Senators on his, and the people’s, conservative bandwagon. How many does he have to get to kick McConnell out of his post? Or is the Minority Leader post a matter of seniority? McConnell needs to move to retire from public disservice. He’s rich enough now, shouldn’t need anymore.
    The whole idea of the republican progressives telling the rest of us what to do is abhorrent to me. Needs to be changed.
    I encourage Senator Johnson to continue to fight the RINOs in the Senate.

  • anjinconsulting

    No wonder the GOP is so messed up. Someone needs to ask McConnell point blank if he agrees with his staff clown and make him defend the position.

  • Locked and Loaded

    Advocating a third party is strictly forbidden on RedState.

  • anjinconsulting

    The GOP is an interesting case study of a group of entrenched bureaucrats who talk more than they listen to their respective constituents, lecture and posture more than they develop relationships with their voters, and now they are being collectively challenged and having a tough time because of their behavior in ensuring their continued tenure in the congress.

    I’m just sayin..

  • JSobieski

    nt

  • spinoneone

    You know, some mornings I have a hard time deciding which one is worse for the nation. At least Reid seems to stick-up for his side, which is more than I can say for McConnell most days.

  • dennytaylor

    We need more Ron Johnson’s. i am really sick of the established Republican, Rhino, leadership. They haven’t addressed the executive orders of Obama, they haven’t addressed his intimudation of the Supreme iurt, They haven’t addressed the forged birth certificate, they haven’t addressed the Spanish company issue of the final presidentail voe count, they haven’t addressed the issue of no vaild ID to vote, they haven’t addressed the issue of border security, they haven’t addressed the issue of Fast and Furious, Eric Holder and all with him belong in jail, they haven’t faced the issue of Holder letting the Black Panther party intimidate voters in the last election, they haven’t adressed the faced the issue f the Black Oanther leader putting a ten thousand dollar reward on Zimmermens to be shot dead, They haven’t faced the issue of a work able energy policy, just what have they done. Did they cut spending? Did they get rid of bills that are a joke, or agencies, offices, that do nothing.? Many that I have never even heard of? They need to go.

  • ariyosef

    Time to Clean out the Money Changer “ELITES” from our Nations most SNOBISH club… The US SENATE.

    Right thinking, right ruling will always bring Satan to the fray.

    The PRIMARY relationship EVERY elected official should Maintain is the one with those constituents who elected them to office.

    ANY OTHER Loyalty or COW TOWING TO THE ELITE CLUB should be distained and Exposed.

    Thanks Eric.
    for rebuking the CLUB’s ELITE REPUBLICAN PANTY-WAIST.

  • spmcintyre

    Think Roman Empire. In the end, if we do not marginalize the progressive republicans, the whole Congress will be marginalized by Cesar in Chief Barraticus HUSSEIN Obamicus mmm mmmm mmm

  • tnguy

    ….we see more and more evidence that holding our nose and voting for a moderate when a conservative is not on the ballot is a failed strategy. There’s no better example than this.

    It’s sad that the conservative movement – as a whole – will not take a stand.

  • josephine

    Sen. McConnell needs to fade into the background. If he has any class he’ll realize this. We need to swing as “right” as possible to pull Romney to the right of center.
    Then in 2014 we need to get Chambliss out of there and put a conservative in for Georgia. He is worse than McConnell. He forgets that he is a Republican. All we need is a younger, more attractive tea party candidate and Saxby will be history.

  • http://masonconservative.typepad.com fairfaxchris

    of the 22 senators that backed Johnson?

  • goodolboy

    should be the rallying cry for the conservatives in Wisconson

  • fpete13527

    nt

  • Bill S

    And do not promote that idea here again.

  • johnt

    n/t

  • edintexas

    Are really, really slow??

  • Common_Cents

    Federal vs. States

    Centralized power vs. decentralized.

    Avoiding tyranny, you know, like the founders learned first hand and put in many precautions to avoid.

    DC is its own corrupting culture, it is a machine that turns out establishment sausage, no matter what ideology, or what well intended folks get fed into it.

    Like in War Games, we should have learned our lesson by now, the best way forward is not play the game at all. The game of centralized power in DC. The increased partisanship these days is created/magnified by having more and more power wielded by fewer and fewer people, making ideology amplified and more critical.

    We have to start pursuing the return of power/decision-making back to the states. This is our ultimate success, the lack of it will lead to major failure.

  • earlgrey

    Seems they out fox us every time.

  • johnt

    and build relationships. It sounds like someting from Good Housekeeping or Redbook.
    Submerge both your personality and principles, forget the lions who made history in the Senate, and play pattycake with the chinless wonder, Mitch the Marvelous Midget. Mitch’s bold plan is to run deficts a nick and a hair less than the Dems & President Axelrod. A cause for patriots everywhere, especially for those who prefer slow ruin rather then the immediate over-the-cliff type.

  • jpmhofct

    Senator Johnson is a prototype.
    This election will determine whether there is a continuation of the 2010 elections move to new leadership in Congress or whether the old “Go along to Get along” Senate under McConnell’s leadership will perpetuate Republicans remaining a minority even if they have a majority. The Senate club membership apparently transends party membership.
    Too many Senators are reelected for too long and become so infused with their own self importance they do not exercise their power on behalf of the Country as much as they should.
    Elections need to impose the term limits that are not mandatede by law. The importance of Philosophical conservatives being added to the Senate Republicans and the need to see a Republican majority can not be underestimated. Obama may yet win reelection and if he does the Legislature must be strong to prevent further advances in his agenda.
    McConnell and the Present Republican Senators are not equal to that task.

  • lemmi

    Vote out rinos in the primaries it’s the only answer

  • dennis1111

    And rightly so. The Progressive/Democrats began there hold on the Nation when Theodore Roosevelt decided to run a third party (the Bull Moose Party-or Progressive Republican Party) after losing the Republican Primary. The Dems have more or less held power ever since. Please, let us not go there again. Especially when our conservative views are in the ascendant with the population-Nation.
    Those who feel compelled to advocate for a third party should go over to Dennis Kuninich or Ralph Nader-please-for the benefit of our nation.

  • JSobieski

    Nobody out foxes anyone else every time.

    Politics is filled with far too many reputations of overrated cleverness.

  • clintonformccain

    getting a Republican majority in the Senate and a Republican in the White House. Until then, whining about Republicans not being “true conservatives” is a meaningless exercise.

    I don’t know what Ron Johnson is complaining about. It’s not rational to think that a first term Senator would get a leadership position in what is perhaps the most seniority driven body in the US government.

    By Washington standards, I didn’t find the so-called “hit piece” on Johnson to be much more than thin gruel. I sure wish Republican attention, during an election year, would be turned towards beating Democrats rather than purging the Republican ranks.

  • ihateliberals

    The alleged leadership in the Senate and the House are all Elitist left-Wing Republicans. The have the same goals as the Democrats but a slightly different approach of how to get there. McConnell’s voting records shows he only votes conservative 40% of the time. (Heritage Foundation) Boehner has the same record as do all the Elitist in the House. I use to use the Term RINO but my experience makes me call them what they are and that is Left-Wing Republicans. There are really very few RINO’s anymore. People like McConnell, McCain, Boehner etc have been in office far too long and need to be replaced with true conservatives. Unfortunately the GOP is still going strong on the Elitist side and have stopped someof the challenges to the non-conservative Republicans. Like in my state for the first time in many years someone has challenged the Shuster’s. This was serious enough that Bill Shuster might have lost the primary next week. what happened though is at the last possible minute Shuster challenged the signatures on the petition to be on the ballot of the opponent. A Judge threw out 96 signatures putting the Challenger below the require number and not allowing time to correct the situation. So anoter two years of Shuster. we live in a Very RED district and the Democrat to shallenge Shuster doesn’t have a chance.

  • camurd

    Mitch McConnell and the rest of the ?established? republicans need to go, as a matter of fact all the ?established? need to go.

    It is way past time that Americans wake up and realize that our elected officials have lost their way and that we have become lazy sheep. Once elected their main job is to ensure that they remain in power at all cost, take money and support from lobbyist, ?bend the rules? on fund raising, make deals with the devil, whatever it takes to keep themselves in the position of power.

    The American people have the biggest stick and it comes down to voting for the person, parties be damned. It is way past time to stop voting for incumbents and start voting for new fresh faces in all branches of government.

    The biggest crime of the 20th century has been convincing people that the political parties really matter and that they support the flock that follows and votes for them. It has all been one big lie! They care about them and their power and wealth and we have allowed this to happen. IT IS TIME TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM!

    How? We have to get 51% of Americans to agree to not vote for any incumbents for the next six years, yes six years. It will take six years to cycle everyone of them out of office. Once that is done hopefully they will realize that they have been put on notice, if not, repeat the process until they get it.

    The parties DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU, WAKE UP!

    To save America we have to break the chains of partisan politics even if it means destroying either or both parties.

  • Finrod

    I remember reading an excellent piece a while back (which I will now badly paraphrase) comparing the GOP congressmen to troops on the field of battle. Sometimes troops get so shell-shocked that they react as badly to their own troops shooting at the enemy as the enemy shooting at them; in that case the only thing you can do is pull them off the field of battle until they recover. It’s not necessarily their failing, it’s just that sometimes there’s only so much battle one person can fight at one time.

    McConnell seems to have reached this point a little while ago, and needs to come off the field of battle for a while.

  • naraht

    The different rules in the House and the Senate tend to affect the personalities of the elected officials that are there. The House is basically set up so that if you have 50%+1 who really want to see something pass they can do so. 218 Representatives who are unified can basically tell the other 217 to do something Anatomically impossible and still get quite a bit done. (or at least sent down to the other end of the Capitol.)

    The Senate on the other hand is just built differently. You need 60 votes to get almost anything done these days with the fact that neither party wants to force to other to actually *perform* a filibuster, the mere threat (and inability to pass a single closure vote) is good enough. Even a single Senator, significantly knowledgaeble of the Senate procedures can tie things up in knots for quite some time. OK Sen Coburn is a particular master of this.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Time to put him out to pasture where he can retire in peace.

  • eldstenorge

    Anyone with half a brain knows you have to build relationships in anything you do in life. You will get nothing done if you do not do so. Now, having said that, the problem we have is that many Republicans in the Senate have to go, just like most of the Democrats, if not all of them.. And, McConnell is the first one who needs to go. Hopefully, we will get rid of Orrin Hatch here in Utah as well. He is one of the biggest problems, telling us that he will have POWER so we have to re-elect him. The phrase, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” is totally applicable to Hatch. Know he says of libertarians and tea party people that he would like to punch them in the mouth, that he hates them.. I wish you would do an article on the latest rantings of this complete idiot. These are the type we have to get rid of, and, if these are the types Ron Johnson has to “build relationships” with, why bother.

  • hayekwasright

    Senators work for us, the people (anybody remember that “of the people, by the people and for the people” stuff). Senators are not there to be a fan club for leadership but rather to be advocates for the people. Ron Johnson seems to understand this while Mitch McConnell and much of the GOP leadership in both houses seem not to understand. If you want to look at a case study of not listening to those you are supposed to answer to, there is not a much better example than the current GOP leadership.

    I will re-quote Erick’s last point as it is the most important in this whole issue:
    ” This is why we need to elect Ted Cruz in Texas, Clark Durant in Michigan, Josh Mandel in Ohio, Richard Mourdock in Indiana, Mark Neumann in Wisconsin, and Don Stenberg in Nebraska so we can elect a real Republican leader who will fight with conservatives instead of against us.”

  • ss396

    Two more and he has a majority of the Republicans

  • funwithknives

    even when the Libertarian Party had all of 40,000 members nationwide{an all-time high, 2000/2001] and fizzled like a wet fuse on a firecracker.
    The reasons were simple:
    1)people were unfamiliar and uncomfortable with the over-all message
    2) really poor presentation
    3) GWB got in and most were just happy it was not AlGore.
    4) Libertarian messengers never ever allowed you,the member, to deviate from the Utopia they,and their platform created. Encounter the ‘purity standard’ for just so long and it gets really disheartening.

    The infrastructure for change is there, within the G O P. Why create an entirely new paradigm when it already stares you in the face?
    Will it occur to-morrow? Nope!
    Near future? Hardly.
    Think about how long this dilution has been going on and realize instant, or even near-term results will be not seen or slow in coming.
    Real change comes slowly ,and history shows you this, time after time.

    Work the system and build coalitions .Look for like-minded allies,and find “80%” comradeship, as perfection is nowhere to be found.
    Believe you me, I have some small experience with this scenario.
    “Third is a turd ,and that is a fact”

    Freedom and Liberty to you, Bob.

  • RDCook

    Bi partisan compromise = When the establishment Republicans and Democrats agree to slightly remove their fondling right hands from each other?s front pockets so they can reach further with their left to fleece, lie to and control the public.
    The national leaders of the GOP establishment have become nothing more than Democrat light. They have bought into the left’s ideology that you have to buy votes by increasing the size of government and taking care of the dumbed down sheeple. Real conservatives scare the pee out of them because they just might be able to clean up Washington.

  • clintonformccain

    …representing a broad range of positions on a continuum from arch-conservative to squishy centrist. The failings of both parties, IMO, lie with the failure to reach consensus policies that grow from that range.

    The Demcrat party is a far weaker party, having purged the blue dogs and become a party of moonbats. The Republican party, in a similar fashion, becomes weaker if the moderates are entirely purged. That’s how you end up with a party that shoots itself in the foot making contraception a “big issue” in the face of massive deficits and a stalled economy. Balance is healthy.

    The US system of government was designed to require compromise, horse-trading, and plowing the ground in the center. The Consitution itself was a compromise between extremely different political points of view — a compromise that ensured walking a middle ground. The Senate is specfically designed to prevent turning on a dime in the way that Johnson seeks. If he thinks he can come in and change the Senate overnight, he got elected to the wrong body.

    As they say, it’s a lousy form of goverrment. It’s just way better than any of the alternatives.

  • earlgrey

    Just frustrated. Johnson is one of my faves. Him and Rand Paul.

  • fishgod3

    Don`t ever mention that IDIOT in the same sentence with a man with a thought in his head.

  • rightlane1111

    The Government is out of sinc with the people. Senator Mitch McConnell is what is commonly referred to as a “company man”. Someone that works for the party….and in many cases against his/her constituents or for that matter our Constitution.

    It’s all about the power. We the People have become subservient to the Party!! It’s as if the entire structure of our Constitution, our Bill of Rights has been turned upside down.

    I agree with the poster than wonders what the difference is between Reid and McConnell. I applaud Senator Johnson and I hope we get more like him.

    We have to replace the “establishment types” with Constitutional minded representatives. No…I am not for a third party…as is mentioned above…I am for reforming and replacing those “company men/women” who now serve as representatives of themselves.

  • rightlane1111

    nt

  • fishgod3

    VOTE REP till the dems are in a really big minority.We The People need to take OUR country back from the pols.

  • http://www.BillBowenAuthor.com RightinSanFrancisco

    Johnson is part of the group that has emerged in Wisconsin in recent years – Paul Ryan; Scott Walker; Sean Duffy; even Reince Priebus. A common trait is that they all speak clearly and are focused on issues and solutions rather than massaging politicians’ egos. (Well, maybe Priebus is different.) In some ways Johnson is the most interesting – he is a very successful self-made businessman whose substance and style appeal to Wisconsin voters who generally have leaned a bit to the left and are currently energized by “la ‘affaire Walker”. He is among the last to be affected by what a jealous staffer thinks, and among the first to be able to relate to Mitt Romney as a matter of experience, attitude, and personal business competence. They both think first “here’s a problem; lets analyze it; how do we solve it?” rather than “here’s a problem; what will people think about what I say?”

    www.RightinSanFrancisco.com

  • msage

    I predict that if the Republican Party blows the 2012 elections they will go the way of the Whigs. A new Conservative Party will emerge to replace the Republican Party Establishment and their RINO advisors/consultants. Existing Republican elected representatives will have the choice to join the Conservative Party or become independents/dems for the next election. We don’t need a third party but we need an avowed conservative party. The dems don’t welcome conservatives in their party and we shouldn’t welcome RINO/liberals in ours. United we stand, divided we fall!

  • woode

    that voting for Romney empowers Establishment / CC Repubs throughout the party – from precinct chairs to the hallowed halls of Congress to the West Wing – thereby multiplying their presence in all levels of party leadership. Our fight for the heart and soul of the party is more difficult with Mittons nomination.

  • up2news

    The GOP really needs to get their ducks in a row.
    We are in for the fight of our lives as a nation and they are playing political games. They didn’t even count all the votes in the primary and are shoving Romney down our throats and influencing voters.

    How is anyone to trust them anymore than the democrats when their conduct is so lacking in ethics?

  • RichmondG30

    George Allen, founding member of the Bush wing of the Compassionate Conservative Party?

    This is all so very depressing.

  • spinoneone

    I didn’t realize I was discussing a man with a thought in his head….just the nonsense the staff pours in.

  • Papabile

    Agree with you on this, but having worked in the House for 14 years, I can say it’s still truly a relationship driven place, as is all of the political world.

    For a member to get anything done int he House, he must either have a good relationship with the Committee Chairs, or be a meglomaniac Committee chair himself.

    With that said, Republicans won’t need 60 votes to do a lot of things if we win the Senate.

    If we run into the 60 vte chainsaw, after health care, the magic word will be reconciliation. Republicans can always achieve some savings somewhere. Reconciliation only requires 50, and the precedent is now set that virually anything goes in it. It will make the 2005 reconciliation look like child’s play.

  • hayekwasright

    The fact that GOP leadership has gone to such great lengths to back Romney against an incumbent with such a disastrous record tells us that they are not on board with the conservative heart and soul of this country. We do indeed have quite a fight to reclaim the party. But ceding the ground to the full tilt socialists running the West Wing now will not gain us anything and will hasten the loss of what freedom we have left.

    While we are at it we need to reclaim the dialog. Case in point: “Compassion Conservative”. Why have we continued to let this term float by as if were necessary to distinguish from “normal” conservatives who must therefore be lacking any comparison. Ordinary conservatism is far more compassionate than liberalism. Just look at the general economic condition of the people in conservative versus liberal regions of the countries. Add to that the historical generosity of the “faith-based community” when a real need arises. And these folks are most generally linked with which branch of political ideology? Yep, that would be conservatism.

    Conservatism is, by its intrinsic nature, compassionate!

  • lastgopinillinois

    and caused my blood-pressure to spike.

    And here I thought all this time that the job we sent them to washington to do was to represent their constituents, not to build relationships, compromise or anything else.

    Just do what we sent you there to do. It seems the more we compromise with liberals (D’s or R’s), the more we lose.

  • northeastred

    I’ve seen this guy a few times and he’s not very inspiring. Doesn’t have many ideas, and can’t articulate much else. Without the Tea Party movement, this guy would never get anywhere on his own.

    Hopefully, he can get his game up in time.

  • celador2

    Mitch must be worried that whatever the outcome of the 2012 elections his leaderhip in Senate may be threatened especially if the Republicans gain a majority. Ron Johnson is auditioning or campaigning for such a role in Senate leadership still. His outreach is not to the ones on the floor as much as in the field. Johnson’s issue is the one that brought him to Washinton DC. Debt.

    Besides the seats listed above Rasmussen shows local tea party backed Sarah Steelman MO with a double digit lead over incumbent Clare McCaskill. A new Senate candidate in ME joined the race for the open seat, Joining the race is the current governor elected 2009 with tea party help.

    Their focus may be issues in DC closer to Johnson that McConnell’s.

  • checkmate2012

    conservatism from “our” vocabulary. And if I ever hear the word “fair” again I think I’ll lose my cookies. Look for a ‘fair” blog soon.

  • dmt1021

    Good old Erik dropped the “H-bomb” on his readers. Hey, Erik, couldn’t you have taken just a moment to explain what in the Sam Hill HAFA is? I realize that’s inside baseball and you’re writing is aimed at other journalists, but some of us poor clods are just trying to follow. You have this annoying habit of dropping names of politicians without identifying from which party they belong or from which state they hail. And your failure to identify the endless use of acronyms is especially annoying. Couldn’t you hire some lackie to edit your columns or to otherwise make sure the journalistic-speak is put in some form that Joe ‘the plumber’ could understand? Just sayin’…

  • http://buyprednisone.net/ cassalevington

    we all just have to look at the positive side of it all
    auto transport car shipping companies

  • http://www.tinfoilhelicopter.com lunaticrex

    Alternatively, you could just get involved in, you know, being a conservative. If you did that, you wouldn’t need help figuring out what HAFA is.

    Also, Senator Johnson’s quote from 2010 “I’m coming to join the fight, not the club” is brilliant. That should be on all our candidates’ business cards. Also, they should live it.

  • travis690

    If it was ever possible for a so-called “leader” as ineffectual as Sen. Mitch McConnell to head the Republican caucus in the Senate, I haven’t seen that person.

    The best thing that could happen for the Senate Republicans would be if McConnell would get a challenger in his next re-election battle from a serious conservative. He is putting a black eye upon the Republican leadership in Washington, DC, proving that if he loses his next primary, it would be a good thing.

    To Sen. Ron Johnson: The people of America have more faith in you than the clown leading the Senate Republicans.