Sunspot Patriots

Here in Wisconsin, home of that great American Fighting Bob La Follette, Ron Johnson and Russ Feingold are running for US Senate.

Johnson thinks sunspots cause global warming because:

"I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change," Johnson said. "It's not proven by any stretch of the imagination."

Johnson, in an interview last month, described believers in manmade causes of climate change as "crazy" and the theory as "lunacy."

He ought to know from science because he is, after all, a manufacturer and accountant.

Feingold, on the other hand, was the only Senator not to be bullyragged into voting for the Patriot Act and he tried to stop the amnesty for Telecoms during the Bush-era illegal wiretapping of whoever they felt like.  Because, one assumes, he is lawyer enough to see the unnecessary expansion of the surveillance state and protecting criminal behavior for what they are: bad, Unamerican policies..

So the choice is clear: vote for sunspots or vote for a patriot.

Speaking of Wisconsin

Russ Feingold is running for the senate in the great state of Wisconsin, which is the 8th smartest state in the Union, allegedly wasn't going to attend yesterday's Obama speech.  He did; he gave  nice speech himself.  I was, to be frank, shocked, not really, at the silly comments of Channel 15 here in the great city of Madison, whose University actively encourages 1st generation college goers in big and important ways, about Feingold's disdain for Obama.

As by the way, Feingold's position on the issues might best be understood by the out-of-state dolts who oppose him and the kind of politicians they endorse.

No Party, No Clique; Almost

Ron Johnson, running for senate in the great state of Wisconsin, a leader in the production of ducks and other fine agricultural products, once opposed a law that would have allowed abused children to sue malefactors who aided and abetted their abusers through lax or no supervision.  Why?  Because

it is extremely important to consider the economic havoc and the other victims [the Wisconsin Child Victims Act] would likely create.

See, its not like being a manufacturer and accountant made him hard-hearted, it's just that economic considerations are much more important than justice for victims of sexual and other forms of abuse. Not a bit of it.  It was rather because he

was on the Green Bay Dioceses Finance Council at the time he testified.

And they were being sued because they had aided and abetted a sexual predator. See also. So independent Conservative Ron Johnson only acts to protect child abusers when it is in serves someone or another's economic interests.  Which is very reassuring because senators are never asked to put the narrow economic interests of one or another of their contributors over the broad interests of their constituents. Are they?

Wait, What?

Ron Johnson is running against Russ Feingold for Senate in the great state of Wisconsin, long may she wave.  In his most recent advertisement, Johnson avers that

I'm not a politician. I'm an accountant and a manufacturer. I know how to balance a budget, and I do know how to create jobs. Now that's something we could really use.

Jobs are, of course, something we could use.  Manufacturing jobs are something we could use.  What have manufacturers and accountants been doing for the past however long it has been?  Moving jobs from here to low wage, no environmental, no labor law, no etc states, that's what.

Which party has supported this more than the other? The Republicans, that's who.  Why just today the Democratic majority tried to run roughshod over the Republicans, well actually they followed procedure and the all the Republicans with a few of the nominal Democrats voted against a bill designed to encourage a reversal of this trend.

Ron Johnson, in short, as an accountant, a manufacturer, and a Republican is more, rather than less, likely to ship jobs oversees or to cut wages in the name of economic efficiency and his party is more likely than not going to continue to give tax breaks to the rest of those pirates as they continued their never ending war on truth, justice and the American way.