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Ron Johnson's Pompous Assumptions: Voters are Ignorant, Colleagues Need Tutoring

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Ron Johnson is not a familiar name to most Americans who are pondering the politics of the "fiscal cliff." But Johnson's reaction to the 2012 election results will tell folks everything they need to know about the challenge rational Democrats will face when it comes to negotiations with not-so-rational Republicans.

A senator from Wisconsin who announced his candidacy at a Tea Party rally and was elected -- with help from a family fortune, Karl Rove and the US Chamber of Commerce's political operations -- Johnson has been a congressional absolutist when it comes to budget issues. He embraces House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan's austerity agenda, perhaps even more than Ryan does himself. And he swears, against all economic evidence to the contrary, and against all political evidence of opposition on the part of the American people, that there is only one way to address the challenges facing America: tax cuts for rich people like him and benefit cuts for everyone else.

Johnson would be a laughable figure -- he's the subject of a Wisconsin website titled "Our Dumb Senator" -- were it not for the fact that he takes himself so seriously. And he is part of a Republican caucus in the Senate that, like the parallel Republican caucus in the House, must deal with its Ron Johnsons before it can function legislatively.

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