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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 08:48 AM Jan 2015

The Year of Living Doltishly: Ron Johnson's Top 20 Face-Palms of 2014

http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/year-living-doltishly-ron-johnsons-top-20-face-palms-2014

19.) In June, Johnson intense criticism for being one of only three senators to vote against the bill to fix long wait times for war-injured veterans seeking health care.

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9.) Johnson also weighed in on the "skills gap" that most politicians are working to solve. He said that the real problem was a "willingness to work gap." Ouch.

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4) Over the summer, Johnson claimed that outsourcing is "quite beneficial to America." Yeah, especially Wisconsin-- where we've lost hundreds of thousands of jobs to outsourcing!

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2.) Johnson often says that the reason he got into politics was because his daughter's life was saved by the exceptional skills of heart surgeon, Dr. John Foker, and that if Obamacare had been around when his daughter needed Foker's help she would have died because Obamacare would have scared gifted surgeons like Foker from going into medicine. In the beginning of this year, however, it was revealed that Foker was and is an enthusiastic supporter of Obamacare, putting a giant fly in ointment of Johnson's central talking point.

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The Year of Living Doltishly: Ron Johnson's Top 20 Face-Palms of 2014 (Original Post) Scuba Jan 2015 OP
When does this clown next face the voters? hatrack Jan 2015 #1
2016. Many of us are hoping Russ Feingold throws his hat in the ring. Scuba Jan 2015 #2
It must be liberating to be unburdened by the ravages of intelligence. Half-Century Man Jan 2015 #3
Snort. Scuba Jan 2015 #4

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
3. It must be liberating to be unburdened by the ravages of intelligence.
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:02 PM
Jan 2015

To just live in the moment...........because you can barely remember the past, or education, or your constituents, or common decency, or to report rapes, or...

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