Good vibes to McCain as he deals with chemo and fuck you Ron Johnson

[Laura PourMeADrink]

(CNN)Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said Tuesday that he thinks that Sen. John McCain's brain tumor and the early morning hours may have affected the Arizona Republican's no vote on the Senate bill to repeal Obamacare.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/kfile-ron-johnson-john-mccain/index.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Johnson is an intellectual zero. And apparently emotionally and socially as well. Fuck him.

[kimbutgar]

6. I always felt they flipped the votes from Feingold to Johnson

He was ahead in the polls and more people voted for Johnson than Thump?

Johnson 1,479,262
Thump 1,409,467

This is from politico

http://www.politico.com/mapdata-2016/2016-election/results/map/president/

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Would we be surprised?

[kimbutgar]

11. The brashness of rethugs with their stealing and cheating on elections is heinous

And I feel helpless about the subject.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Hopefully we can build a coaliton of Dems and peel off the GOP left and end this

nightmare. How many days left???

[JI7]

12. Johnson is home state candidate. They often do better than national candidates

It's s a state in recent years that repeatedly supported walker so not really surprising.

But there is the issue of voter suppression in largely black and other minority areas.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Educate me please - what is a home state candidate vs a national candidate?

you mean statewide elections such as US Senator don't track with what happens nationally?? Like Trump? but they both got in.

[JI7]

18. home state just means that is their home state. A national candidate can be home state also

Like hillary and ny.

National candidates are presidential candidates that run in states that are not their own home.

Home state candidates often do better than a pres candidate that is not from there.

But thE opposite can happen sometimes also. I think Obama did better in massachsettes than warren.

[oasis]

17. Black voter suppression. Likely working from the Ken Blackwell blueprint.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Is he up for reelection soon? I would scrape up money for his opponent.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. 2022

In December 2014, the Washington Post rated Johnson the most vulnerable incumbent US Senator in the 2016 election cycle.[23] In May 2015, former Democratic U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, whom Johnson had defeated in 2010, announced he would run to win the Senate seat back.[24] In the November 8, 2016, general election, Johnson won his reelection bid against Feingold with 50.2% of the vote

[ginnyinWI]

2. once again, I'm ashamed for my state. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Well, have to say, it's pretty ! :) Drove through it from Minneapolis to Chicago ! nt

[ginnyinWI]

25. that's a pretty drive.

I've done it many times! We are from the Greater Milwaukee Area and lived in Minneapolis and drove home for holidays. Then moved back here, but our daughter lives in Minneapolis now.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. would love to check out Milwaukee one day - it always sounded just

so cool to me - like maybe very down to earth, maybe good food? - I loved Minneapolis - worked there on an assignment - the plan was to meet my husband in Chicago for a weekend. So I drove by myself across WI and it started to snow and couldn't see and got stopped on highway. Rough. Finally got to Chicago and his flight was canceled due to snow.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Amen

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I've been very critical of McCain over the years for some obvious reasons, but

he sure as hell doesn't deserve Ron Johnson's disgusting remarks. Johnson is a thug and a moron. Come on, Wisconsin; you could have had Russ Feingold but you elected this dumbass?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Me too - we all have - but isn't it funny how having Trump makes you look

at Center and Center Left GOP in a new light. Or maybe, really anyone, no matter how much we disagree, in a new light. If they are honest and forthright and care about people - maybe just disagree on the details on how to help - but at least have the basic core belief that we help those less fortunate?

[Greybnk48]

5. RoJo is a fucking idiot.

He really is deeply stupid, but Wisconsin is crooked now so we're stuck with him. Russ Feingold was ahead of him by 10pts. a week or so before the "election." Then, abracadabra! The repukes won! It's fucking amazing but that's our life here now.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Well Jesus - Senate should at least sanction him ! I hate Dick Cheney but

I would never say such a thing about anyone going through the horror of chemo.

Bet Lindsay Graham is apoplectic

[Greybnk48]

23. McCain will rip his face off, metaphorically speaking,

sick or not. RoJo's a buffoon. Were crawling with them here.

[MiddleClass]

14. There's only one way to break it gerrymandered hell, vote early, vote regularly, especially midterms

Overwhelming turnout will be gerrymandering, but it does take multiple elections.

Come on Wisconsin, take back your state, no one can do it for you

[Greybnk48]

24. Our gerrymander has been ruled unconstitutional

but the repukes are challenging the ruling and it will go to the Supreme Court. The fate of American elections will in large part rest on what the Supremes rule.


Slimy coward and pathological liar, Paul Ryan, is bulletproof here his district gerrymander is so absurd, turnout or not.

[MiddleClass]

30. I'm watching that like a hawk, Kennedy stated that gerrymandering is unconstitutional,

But a case specific enough as not cross the Supreme Court yet, it will

I'm hoping this is it.

But the lower court ruled it unconstitutional, the Supreme Court usually doesn't take cases it agrees with.

They let the lower court stand, but that does not set precedent.

I'm praying that that is the reason they took that case, just to set a precedent.

Wishful thinking, but maybe,

you're right about specific congressional districts, I'm talking more about the ratio of the whole state

[spanone]

9. i wish that on no one.

[Gothmog]

21. Senator Ron Johnson is pond scum

[dalton99a]

22. Johnson is a worthless POS

[Raven]

26. I have watched this disease progress in a close friend of mine

for the last 6 months. It is exceptionally cruel. My friend has lost her mobility, her continence and her short memory but, amazingly, she has not lost her sense of humor or good judgment. Johnson's remarks show just how low these political reptiles will stoop. I wish McCain a gentle journey and the continued love of his family and friends. Johnson should walk in his shoes.

[recovering_democrat]

28. I concur

Senator McCain is one of the few Republican politicians who will occasionally do what is right instead of what is "Republican". May he be able to help all of us with his actions in this horrible time. Thank you for your perspective. I share it.

[MiddleClass]

31. I lost my cousin to a cancerous brain tumor a few years ago.

50 years old, about 5 years from diagnosis. We were kids sharing toys for years. Left a wife and 2 kids, sad

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. So sorry. He lived with it for 5 years? Wow - thought diagnosis meant months.

[MiddleClass]

35. Sometimes, surgery eliminates it, but when it grows back sometime it's in this spot

Now Doctor will not touch/attempt the surgery because you won't make it off the table.

4 years later, it grew back like that and took him out. Real sad all around, but the 4 years was God sent

Only one surgeon in Manhattan, Sloan-Kettering cancer hospital, the top one they have did it.

[Guilded Lilly]

27. Johnson shouldn't be allowed to exist without a permanent choke collar.

[Zambero]

29. The GOP has become a cancer unto itself

The metastases of this runaway train of a political entity is manifest in may ways: gerrymandering, weaponized propaganda contrived and dispersed by conspiracy theorists, the embrace of ignorance, radicalization and efforts to "normalize" it, catering to the whims of religious zealots and white supremacists, voter suppression, a lust for authoritarian rule, an irrational fear of the "other", aiding and abetting foreign interference in our election process, vast sums of dark money courtesy of Citizens United, to name a few examples.

Given this backdrop, the likes of Senator Johnson, among others, would be expected to assign a contrived explanation for his "friend" John McCain's vote.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. Do you think the absolute insanity which is Trump will somehow change

the GOP and make some stand up for what is right? Can't imagine it doing the opposite can you - make them worse than they are?