Late last week, President Barack Obama appointed far-right Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to represent the United States in the United Nations General Assembly. Johnson does not have to resign his U.S. Senate seat in order to accept the appointment, meaning that he can be both a U.S. Senator and a Representative to the UN General Assembly at the same time.
I find it disgusting that President Obama would appoint someone Johnson to represent this country in the UN General Assembly, because he is one of the most repulsive members of either house of Congress.
Not only does Johnson have a staunchly anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-middle class, anti-human rights, and anti-democracy voting record that is in lockstep with what the far-right Tea Party demands from Republicans these days, Johnson is a defender of sexual abuse. First, in 2010, not long before he successfully bought that year's U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin, Johnson spoke before a Wisconsin State Senate committee and railed against proposed state legislation in Wisconsin that would have made it easier for victims of sex abuse by members of the Catholic Church's clergy to sue the Catholic Church. Additionally, after Bill Kramer, a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Waukesha County, sexually assaulted someone who was then one of Johnson's aides, Johnson refused to report the sexual assault of one of his own aides by Kramer to the police, which means that Johnson helped Kramer evade prosecution for three years.
President Obama appointing Ron Johnson to represent the United States in the U.N. General Assembly is the single most disgusting thing I've ever seen President Obama do, even more disgusting than him threatening to cut Social Security benefits for seniors who depend on them to survive.