Nothing demonstrates how critical elections are like the sudden death of a conservative Supreme Court Justice, and nothing demonstrates just how critical it is to get the Senate back in Democratic hands. Let's start with Wisconsin, where an already embattled Republican—Ron Johnson—is jumping on the obstruction bandwagon with both feet.
"I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate," Johnson said in a statement released Sunday. "America needs Supreme Court justices who share Justice Scalia's commitment to applying the Constitution as written and to the freedom it secures."
Which again demonstrates that Ron Johnson might just be the dimmest bulb in the Senate seeing as how he’s running in Wisconsin, against a seasoned former senator, in a presidential election year. (Just to prove how dumb he is, Johnson actually tweeted out a condolence that included a picture not of Scalia, but of an actor who portrayed him in a play.)
Johnson is just asking to be booted by his opponent, that former senator Russ Feingold, who was quick to respond.
"The Supreme Court plays a unique role applying the Constitution to important questions of American life and business, and I expect the president to nominate a new justice, as the Constitution requires," Feingold said in a statement. "The Senate must then do its job by working in a bipartisan way to vote on the nominee."
The Senate must do its job, but we know that that's not going to happen as long as it's in Mitch McConnell's hands. It's not going to happen with tools like Johnson holding seats that should be held by Democrats. Taking back the Senate now means more than than it ever has, and Wisconsin is the first seat that should fall.
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