Since the Democrats are hellbent on destroying this country and refuse to be reasonable, you have to take up the mantle of leadership. You’ve got to convince your party leadership and colleagues to present a unified front on the budget (i.e. no Browns or Collins or Snowe on CNN backstabbing the party). If they don’t comply, then enforce party discipline by stripping them of power and kicking them out. You need to be pounding the media networks with your views; you’re preaching to the choir when you post on a conservative website.

If you draw a line in the sand and publicly stand by a commitment to fiscal responsibility without sacrificing national security (short-term and long-term on both), I will support you and any like you through hell and back.

I may be off my rocker, but I am 28 and I’m looking for political leadership (and finding very little). Americans are likewise desperate for leadership. The leadership buck stops with you and like-minded colleagues. Take up the leadership banner yourself. Hold the line, no matter the political / personal cost.

And remember that the safe and easy path always leads to stagnation.

Sorry, but Obama is a destroyer not a leader.
The Republicans in the Senate need to get a grip and start fighting Obama tooth & nail – you cannot work with this Marxist. The RINOS in the Senate are more on the side of socialism and that is the problem.

You must hold and block until after the Nov. 2012 elections.
If not and Obama gets re-elected then it won’t matter how many elections the Republicans win after that.

Sorry for the blunt talk but what is needed right now is a Republican Senate with spine & guts. I don’t know how you get to Brown, Snowe, Collins, Murkowski and a few more of the RINOS but they need to understand the fate of the republic is in the balance and it is much more important than their next election.

But here is something that no one wants to say, but I will. I think the best outcome of the debt ceiling debate is that no bill gets passed and Obama intentionally doesn’t pay foreign creditors and that we have a huge crisis as a result. That kind of jolt might actually concentrate the minds of our sorry ass, weal electorate, people and eventually even elected reps so much that we actually reverse course. This will hasten the inevitable crash that is coming due to the amount of the debt etc and econ realities that simply will not sustain the dollar. Therefore, since I think the crash is inevitable, I think its best that it happen suddenly and that ObamaDems get the blame. But mainly that it hit hard and that we all have severe econ hardship so that we are forced to grow up.

As one of your constituents, I couldn’t be more proud to have you represent me. I pray for your success, as the alternative would turn my hope for my daughter’s future to forlorn at what could have been. I pray for your success so my daughter will not become a slave… to our debt, or to the government leviathan.

Where federal discretionary spending has gone nuts in the age of Pelosi and O’Bama, the entitlement spending has gone (predictably) bat-sh!+ crazy.

And from our Statist pals on the left we find Obamacare (the deathblow to a once free people) steaming and stinking in our lunchpail. Take your eye off the commies for an instant and they’re defecating everywhere.

As much as I hate to say it, the Statist wants the system to collapse… And that comes quicker when your colleagues raise the debt ceiling without significant spending reform. Would you (as a bondholder) be more comfortable lending to someone who misses a payment because they were restructuring their debt, or somebody who took out another credit card to continue their profligacy? The bond market will be worse, and we’ll pay much more in the end if our side caves in fear. Our side needs to learn that our goals are wildly different from those of the Statist left.

Do not cave, Senator Johnson.

Sen Johnson, thanks for the post. You guys need to speak up more and talk above the media.
The “media” are not your friends.
The “media” are out to destroy you.
The “media” must be destroyed.

Next time one of you go on MTP or the (horrific) Schieefer protam or Christiane Imawhore’s show, have a template:

“Well, (Bob, David, or Chrissy), we all know and your viewers know you are 100% for any Democrat, but the facts are………..”.

Grrrr

Whether “leading from behind” or from the side or from the front?

If there were any doubts about his view of America, his actions in the last years have matched half of his words, the half which he believes, rather than the lying half used to sway the indulgent and the inattentive that he really is pro-American.

That first half delineates his belief that America has no right to lead the free world, has no right to believe itself exceptional, and is a fundamentally “unfair” society, which must be taught a lesson.

Have you read his books, Senator? WHY would you want him to show leadership???

Showing us his leadership means showing us the path to becoming a 17th-rate nation. We would be better off if he spent all his time playing golf and touring the world, and doing absolutely nothing: instead, he opens his mouth and trashes our allies, while claiming he is doing no such thing; he opens his mouth to push a socialist agenda from increasing the number of bureaucrats to limit our freedom to taking away freedom of choice in health care and sundry other activities.

His wife even pushes a freedom-limiting, micro-managing cultural agenda attacking Happy Meals while pushing obscene rappers as “poets.”

Such leadership needs to be reversed in 2012!

President Obama’s agenda to dismantle the USA needs to be stopped.

Senator Johnson –

Please continue to lead and look for conservative solutions to issues in the Senate.

I’d encourage you to help Senator DeMint get conservative Senators who don’t want a government solution to everything elected to congress.

Thanks to everyone here for all the comments. I know the Senator will apprecaite it, and will read all of them.

Senator Johnson will often note that there’s only person among millions of Americans who can sign bills into law, and that’s the president. And we have only one president at a time. So we do need President Obama to step up and act if we are to get something done now.

As to whether he does that, that’s up to him. We’ll just do our best to convince him to. But whether we address these problems now, or under the next president – whoever he or she may be – it is going to require that small-government conservatives stick to their principles, and insist on real, significant, spending cuts.

Brian Faughnan
Press Secretary, Senator Ron Johnson

that only 22 other GOP senators signed? I’d like to know who those are that didn’t sign.

That needs to be changed. Everyone jawbones until we hit crisis mode then they have “political cover” to act, often in the wrong direction unfortunately. That includes both parties to different degrees. We need real common sense and real patriots in DC.

Thanks Sen Johnson and I hope the voters can vote in some new real common sense patriots in the next several elections at all levels of government to turn this ship around.

and campaigning for chief justice of the World Court or the chairmanship of the IMF, whichever is avaliable in 2013.

Only with the latter they better keep the busboys out of his way or we’ll be even more embarrassed than the French.

But NO senator should be whining about the vacuum of o’s leadership, he’s the guy who wrote two memoirs BEFORE he had national office. Think he saw handwriting on the wall? I hope that was a pun.