http://kos.dailykos.com/ Or Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, to be exact. Frickin' bastard!
Kos excepts Roll Call:
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign (Nev.) said Wednesday that the GOP is no longer putting off mounting an aggressive campaign to unseat Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) — even though the two-term incumbent is still recovering from a brain aneurysm that has sidelined him since December.
Although Republicans in South Dakota remain fearful of targeting Johnson, Ensign said an appropriate amount of time has passed to allow for the family to deal with his recovery. Separately, at least one South Dakota newspaper also took the gloves off this week, raising questions about Johnson’s return to the public domain.
“It’s time,” Ensign said, stressing emphatically that he and all of his colleagues continue to pray for Johnson’s full recovery. “Obviously, we are all still concerned. But this is a United States Senate seat. He was a top target before his health problems and he’s still a top target.”
Johnson’s staff responded to Ensign swiftly and aggressively Wednesday, attacking the NRSC chairman personally while vowing the Nevada Republican would rue the day he targeted the South Dakota Democrat.Kos cites, however, that SD Republicans are behaving with more class:
Meanwhile, Republicans in South Dakota continue to be skittish regarding Johnson, believing that attacking him politically on matters of policy will appear unseemly. Observers of South Dakota politics predict Republicans in the state will refrain from saying anything negative about Johnson until he returns to work on Capitol Hill — no matter how long that takes.