Sen. Ron Johnson (POS-WI) talks healthcare and communism

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/125244323.html


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...his signature issue, at least during the campaign last fall, was the federal health-care law. Johnson frequently said that President Barack Obama's health-care bill, later signed into law, was the "single greatest assault on freedom" in his lifetime.

JOHNSON: Because that’s exactly what we’re talking about. When government is going to decide what kind of care you can have, where you can get your care - and that is what we’re..."

HUNT: "You think that’s a bigger threat than communism?"

JOHNSON: "That’s exactly what this thing is-"

JOHNSON: "Listen, I’m talking about things that are imposed on me by this - by our government in America. It is the greatest single threat to my freedom, our freedom."
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I'm still hacked this idiot beat our Russ Feingold. Democratic voters in Wisconsin better not ever be caught napping again!

And making the assembly and senate all Rethuglican as well, and the Supreme Court.

Are they asleep now, maybe not as much, since many have buyers remorse, but Prosser winning, even by a slim margin doesn't give me much to be happy about WI voters.

I wish I had more hope like you, but I look at the WI swing voter as confused & easily lead.

This is like team-mates pointing fingers at each other in the locker room after a loss. It's like blaming the guy who made the last out for an entire game filled with errors and missed opportunities. It's a morale busting blame game. See what you did? See? SEEEEEE????????????!!!!!!!!!!

How's that really helpful?

The Feingold loss had multiple contributors, and the Wisconsin democrats who read DU were probably not substantive contributors to that failure.

But, it's Wisconsin democratic voters fault; really? The skewed federal relief programs to the national economic crisis that didn't relieve the fears and insecurities of Wisconsinites had nothing to do with Feingold's loss? It was, of course Wisconsin's inattentive Democratic voters who created the circumstance that led to the 'throw the bums out' mentality... Democratic voters, really? I don't think so.

And, of course under-appreciation of the n-dimensional Obama administration chess games with corporatist leaning economic advisers that bailed out Wall St but crashed pensions and home values and stuck homeowners with foreclosures, leaving ordinary Wisconsinites scared and expecting no federal help was and remains to today the fault of Wisconsin democratic voters...??

I always thought that the job of Wisconsin candidates and campaigns was to share a message that rallied support among Wisconsin voters for their elections. Yet, when those campaigns and candidates fail to rally sufficient support among voters to win it is completely and only the fault of democratic voters and they must be disparaged. Relentlessly.

I think we all agree Johnson is truly awful. I think all the Wisconsin democrats on DU knew Johnson was awful during his campaign. It's not as if money and time as well as votes weren't gladly given to the cause by Wisconsin democratic voters. It's not as if Johnson actually won by a landslide.

There may be some Wisconsin DUer's with personalities that will respond well to flagellation. But really it's less than morale building. As the capital budget fight showed, I think we do better with a valid cause we can rally behind.

Choices have consequences and we are living here in WI with peoples' poor choices--those who chose to vote for Walker and Johnson, and those Democrats who chose not to vote at all. Neither Walker nor Johnson won by landslides, so every Democrat who chose not to vote helped them to victory.

Every election is important. Every one. There is no excuse not to vote.

should really be examined as a GOTV failure. You can't imagine an acceptable reason for not voting...but the nonvoters weren't motivated to vote. Forget about which one is right and which one is wrong. Think about which of those two positions needs fixing?

There is a possibility that something exists which candidates, campaigns and state and county party organizations can do to improve voters turning out. There is a possibility that in governing the current incumbents could do more to inspire more support.

Treating nonvoters as bad people who can't be excused for having put us in this fine mess we are in just isn't very useful to changing their voting behavior. It's just a blame game with all the psycho-socio dimensions and purposes of blame games.

Nonvoters are not bad people, just irresponsible.

I'm puzzled, voters are legal adults, so why must they be begged and pleaded to cast a vote? So thousands of Democrats last November could not find one race, not even one, that interested them enough to cast a vote? That's simply pathetic.

When I hear of those in third world countries who gain the right to vote for the first time and will walk for days and risk their lives to cast that vote, it opens my eyes to how cavalierly and cheaply so many here hold their right to vote, a right they take for granted.

There certainly was enough wailing and gnashing of teeth over the election here last November and I'm betting that many thousands who did not vote regret that choice as do many thousands who regret the choices they did make when they voted.

to keep Hopper in and to confuse and deter Dem voters.

Sure hope they aren't napping today, Scuba!

Every time they pull the "communist" or "socialist" canard, you have to put in in those terms.

Put it in terms that show it to be as ridiculous as it really is.