Ron “I have never lobbied for… a government payment” Johnson did — and got — just that

This is pretty big. Ron Johnson, the not-self-made-man who’s running for the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Russ Feingold, and claims not to have asked for government money, did just that. “I’m in business,” Johnson told WKOW. “I have never lobbied for some special treatment or for a government payment.” That’s quite a claim. Too bad

ROJO on Greenland (sunspots!) and organizing a labor boycott

Ron Johnson, the not-self-made-man who somehow became the anointed Republican U.S. Senate candidate, has really gone out on the global warming denial limb. Once again overlooking the facts that Russia is burning, that one-fifth of land-locked Pakistan is underwater, and that we had two 100-year-floods within two days of each other back in 2008 and