Ron Johnson: ‘Restoring faith in government’ is the ‘wrong solution’
Source: Raw Story
Tea party-backed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Thursday told a conservative conference in Washington, D.C. that restoring faith in government was the wrong solution and that lawmakers should instead be encouraging distrust.
Speaking to the Faith and Freedom Coalitions Road to Majority conference, Johnson said that too many Americans had forgotten the foundational premise of this nation, that the Founding Fathers understood government was something to fear.
Americans are willingly trading their freedom and ours for the false sense, for the false promise of economic security, he opined.
Johnson asserted that congressional approval ratings of 9 percent were too high.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/13/ron-johnson-restoring-faith-in-government-is-the-wrong-solution/
shraby
(21,946 posts)don't make the laws, Congress dreams them up, votes on them, passes them and calls it good. Nevermind what the people actually want.
...whether the laws they pass are even legal. Look at the laws they pass.... John Q. Public doens't know about all those riders on the tail ends of those bills. By the time the bill goes for a vote, it doesn't even resemble the Title anymore! Hells bells, I bet you 75-85% of Congressmen don't know what is in those bills. I think my Junior High could write a better bill than comes out of that place nowadays!
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Johnson asserted that congressional approval ratings of 9 percent were too high.
LTR
(13,227 posts)Ron Johnson is a useless piece of shit.
That is an insult to shit. Shit has a "place",...a function in the world scheme of things. Ron Johnson does not.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)am I reading this wrong, or did this guy pretty just admit his job is to ruin the reputation of his job?
Lasher
(27,636 posts)liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Nixon tried but failed miserably.
Raygun put in place many policies that have brought us to where we are today.
Clinton tried turn it around.
Dubby just laid the process back on track for the right wing and the Teabaggers are their soldiers.
The GOP Congress is working hard to make sure Obama does not right this ship before they can install another teabagger to finish the job of government destruction.
mckara
(1,708 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)There, fixed the headline
pscot
(21,024 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Voting took place during happy hour.
RVN VET
(492 posts)I grieve, I really grieve for the intelligent people of Wisconsin. But it's pretty apparent that the marching morons have outbred them and been suckered in by what Louisiana's governor has called "the Party of Stupid."
marble falls
(57,204 posts)DissidentVoice
(813 posts)1. Government is the problem.
2. Elect people who believe government is the problem (but have no problem with their government benefits).
3. Have them throw a spanner in the workings of government.
4. Go to your electorate and say "see, I was right...government doesn't work."
5. Repeat.
Harry Monroe
(2,935 posts)"The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get elected and prove it."
P.J. O'Rourke
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)I would be less embarrassed if one of my Senators was filmed having sex with, but not satisfying, a goat.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)In our race with wyoming, to be the state on the bottom, We are confidant in our republican leadership to the fuse; I mean the way.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)which is what it would take to restore trust in government.
Beacool
(30,251 posts)Crazy Baggers.........
Psephos
(8,032 posts)booley
(3,855 posts)"government was something to fear. ....
.... Says guy who's part of the government.
Maybe it's me but it seems we have a lot of these guys in government saying government is evil and when they say it, it seems less a warning and more of a promise.
AllyCat
(16,222 posts)I have "progressive friends" who voted for him because they thought we needed change. And he was the neighbor from down the street.
I hate the Tea Party. With a passion I hate them. They have made it so there is not one reasonable part of the GOP, and it was pretty bad to begin with.
with my family that I grew up with, and with my wife of over 30 years, vacationed in Wisconsin almost exclusively every year. I had been going to Door County for 45 years. Spent a lot of money there, supported all the businesses there. Then when the big political change happened in Wisconsin (I cried) I wrote to everyone we had supported there and told them I am never coming back until Wisconsin came to there senses. And the people I supported may well have voted (D), but if they all don't suffer, then things don't get done. And my wife and I really miss going there. We made a lot of friends and we miss them too.
I hate the right wing extremists and the tea party party especially. They have taken this country to the garbage dump.
LTR
(13,227 posts)On what planet would a real progressive NOT vote for Feingold, perhaps one of the most honest, straight-up people to ever serve in the Senate (and a true progressive to boot) and instead vote for that empty suit corporate shill Johnson?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Start here:
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)Back to the basics with another old hippie visionary. It's not complicated, folks.
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Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)that government was something to fear. That's why they almost immediately added 10 amendments to the new Constitution to help give the citizenry greater peace of mind about NOT having to fear their government
Scuba
(53,475 posts)BootinUp
(47,186 posts)lol.
timdog44
(1,388 posts)I am in Illinois. Lots of our ex governors are making license plates for my vehicles. And I think we are almost the most bankrupt state in the country. And the Ds rule our goernment.
You don't really have to apologize. I do feel bad for you though.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)timdog44
(1,388 posts)Can't believe his wife did the reality TV crap. But that defines the Blagos.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)And it's because for whatever reason by the end of her second term people here reviled Jennifer Granholm.
So what did they do? Elected Rick Snyder, who said he was not going to ally himself with the GOP far right...and promptly did so. I guess they forgot/didn't notice what two terms of John Engler did to this state.
We now are a "right-to-work" state. Walter Reuther is spinning in his grave.
timdog44
(1,388 posts)I always like Jennifer Granholm.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)But, of course, the American electorate has very short memories...
4dsc
(5,787 posts)Something wrong in the world today and I know what it is. Its republicans.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)BootinUp
(47,186 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)I have adopted the saying of "how republican of you" in my best slow southern gentleman drawl when some one does something extremely rude or says something very arrogant. You'd be surprised at how many surprised looks like how did he know I was a republican. All while their mouth gapes open with a very surprised expression.
on edit: see my sig line, I can still recognize a "Freak".
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)was that government would become obsolete. It never happened. He wants government to be mistrusted as long as there are "other people" in it.
And especially if "one of Those People" is President.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)ladym55
(2,577 posts)Hating on government while happily collecting a government paycheck and enjoying wonderful GOVERNMENT-FUNDED health care and being eligible for a GOVERNMENT-FUNDED pension ...
Everytime good "Amurikans" vote one of these clowns into office I want to cry.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The Wizard
(12,547 posts)Republican talking smegma.
magellan
(13,257 posts)Big difference. When you fear something you tend to take irrational views of it and seek to nullify it any way possible. Which just happens to describe every teabagger and their estimation of government.
When you don't trust something you keep an eye on it, i.e. remain vigilant and informed.
But I wouldn't expect these irreducible morans to understand the difference.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)to help instill distrust of our government.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)How ignorant and he's twisting the truth, since the FF understood the Brit. KING's gov. was something to fear so set up a new system of American gov. that is of, by and for the people, with separation of powers so that even idiots like Ron Johnson could be voted in.