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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 02:47 PM
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Dumbass speaks, and still has absolutely nothing to say.
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson defeated longtime incumbent Russ Feingold on a platform of being a citizen legislator who would bring a businessman's rather than a politician's thinking to Washington. Speaking as a guest of the Marquette University's Law School's “On the Issues with Mike Gousha” series on Thursday, Johnson said he saw no conflict in embracing traditional political roles in Washington. Johnson has announced he will run for vice chair of the Republican Conference, a leadership position in the Senate GOP caucus. He said he decided to run for the position because it’s about communication. Johnson has also created a leadership PAC called Strategy PAC. "The idea behind those leadership PACs is to help fellow Republican senatorial candidates be able to win back the Senate. It's one of those Washington, D.C., customs and anything I can do to help that process, I'm willing to do it," he told WisPolitics afterward.

Asked by WisPolitics if he deplored partisanship as much as he said he did during his campaign last fall, Johnson said, "It's sad. I don't see it on the other side. When you have a president that needs to lead, and he's not leading ... so again, in order to work on a bipartisan basis, you need somebody that's negotiating in good faith, that's working in good faith, and currently we don't have that with this president."

:eyes:

Johnson also told the audience that "it's really pretty remarkable how President Obama has pretty well taken over and continued the policies of the Bush administration." That doesn't mean the freshman Republican senator agrees with Obama on anything. "We're not getting leadership out of President Obama," he said. Johnson did not offer any endorsement of a possible GOP candidate to take on Obama, but said, "I will be begging Republicans running for president to run an issues campaign. Run on a mandate. Explain to the American people the extent of the problems, lay out for the American people your solutions to the problem so that when hopefully you get elected, the American people understand what you're going to do and then will support you to get it done."

But Johnson repeated his opinion that Obama's signature mandate -- a national health care plan -- should in fact, be repealed, along with other Obama initiatives. And he said Obama doesn't have a clue how to create jobs. Johnson also expressed frustration with political inefficiency and bickering on Capitol Hill, calling the appropriations process, for example, unprofessional, and said it's far worse than he had imagined. Johnson complained of not getting information until the day before the vote on a spending bill. Johnson, an accountant by profession, said he then had to ask his staff to "break numbers out of legislative language into a spreadsheet for me." "I see now, how unprofessional, how out of control the spending process is," Johnson said.

http://dc.wispolitics.com/
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dembotoz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 04:40 PM
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1. continued the policies of the Bush administration."
so would johnson call bush a socialist?????



That doesn't mean the freshman Republican senator agrees with Obama on anything. "
so if obama continues the bush policies and johnson does not agree with obama on anything--then johnson would not agree with any of the policies of bush?????


sun spots must have cooked his brain
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 05:24 PM
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2. I don't know which statement is more nonsensical...
that one or saying Obama makes no effort to be bipartisan... you wonder if the dumbass' head is made of plastic.
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charmay Donating Member (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 10:19 PM
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3. How could anyone have voted for him
with a straight face?
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-11 12:02 PM
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4. The moron vote in this state is alarming.
Edited on Sat Oct-01-11 12:58 PM by undeterred
Same people voted for Walker... at least some of those people have a chance to do something about it. But we are stuck with this dumbass for a very long time. He criticizes everything and he doesn't have anything at all to offer.
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