Monday, January 09, 2012

Senator Johnson’s Niche

This is a pretty sad headline.

Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, of Oshkosh, carves niche as deficit hawk

It’s sad that being a deficit hawk is considered a “niche” and not “mainstream.” Good for Senator Johnson, though.

(14) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1544 hrs
Politics + Politics - General + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. He is a pretty rare bird. Democrats didn’t create this debt on their own. They had plenty of non-conservative republican help.

    Posted by Billiam on January 09, 2012 at 1634 hrs


  2. Paying Pat McIlheran $100k/year to tweet GOP talking points doesn’t sound like the hallmark of a deficit hawk. Then again, it’s likely the MSM wouldn’t have picked up on this non-story were it not for McIlheran tweeting about it.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 09, 2012 at 1745 hrs


  3. Too bad that RoJo really has no clue as to macroeconomics.  He believes in the fantasy as expoused by Ayn Rand.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 09, 2012 at 1808 hrs


  4. Too bad that Dean W. believes in the fantasy as expoused by Karl Marx.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 09, 2012 at 2029 hrs


  5. Too bad that Nixon and Reagan are the two that started the big deficit spending that put us in the position we are in today.  Other presidents jumped on the bandwagon but these two started it.  ixon by abandoning the link to gold in 1970 and Reagan with his large (for the time) deficits to boost the stagnant economy while beginning the tax cuts for the wealthy. nd the biggest t.oo bad is that Ron Johnson got elected

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 09, 2012 at 2039 hrs


  6. Macroeconomics….In 1980 tax rate (low/high) was 14/70. In 1988 it was 15/28. Tax revenue in 1980 was $517B. Tax revenue in 1988 was $909B…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 09, 2012 at 2057 hrs


  7. Umm. Dave, don’t forget FDR and the great society clown himself, LBJ. Not exactly fiscal paragons. No one party is 100% at fault.

    Posted by Billiam on January 10, 2012 at 0623 hrs


  8. Can someone explain to me why we voted for Ron Johnson when we had Russ Feingold? 

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 10, 2012 at 0624 hrs


  9. Bret, because some of us have a functioning brain stem(you know the autonomic system) and don’t need to continuously think to breath thus freeing up brain cycles to vote for a pol that actually has ideas other than breath…eat…foul where I live…

    Posted by fishaddict on January 10, 2012 at 0809 hrs


  10. So if you don’t buy in to Anyn Rand, you believe in Karl Marx.

    Amazing logic

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 10, 2012 at 1621 hrs


  11. I am yet to meet a critic of Rand w/o a heavily socialist agenda.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 11, 2012 at 0750 hrs


  12. You need to get out more Smeety

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 11, 2012 at 0827 hrs


  13. ... case in point…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 11, 2012 at 0834 hrs


  14. And that would be?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on January 11, 2012 at 0906 hrs


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