Wisconsin's Other Toxic Demagogue: Sen. Ron Johnson

Since we're on the topic of toxic, dangerous Wisconsin Republicans this morning, there may be one who gives Scott "Koch Head" Walker a run for his money:  multi-millionaire Sen. Ron "Small" Johnson.  Here is a sampling of the wisdom of the paleo-right Johnson:

-- He said "The Lego Movie" was "insidious" anti-business "propaganda;"

-- He lost a suit in which he tried to block Obamacare subsidies for Members of Congress and their staff;

-- He accused the League of Conservation Voters of engaging in "environmental jihad" because of their efforts to warn of global climate change;

-- He used his time during the recent Senate hearings on the Iran nuclear agreement to quiz Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on the possibility of an electromagnetic pulse attack on the U.S. shoreline;

-- A PAC supporting him used a photshopped image of President Obama "shaking hands" with the president of Iran to discredit the nuclear agreement;

-- In a recent radio interview, he referred to "idiot inner city kids," a Freudian slip he later tried to walk back.

On The Google Machine, there's much more of this idiocy from Johnson, who married into a family plastics fortune and never had to worry much about health insurance or where his children were educated.  He's in a closely-watched race with former Sen. Russ Feingold that will help determine if the Democrats can retake the Senate in 2016.  If you get a chance to contribute to Russ, it may help retire one of the worst Senators we've seen in a long time, who's a blight to the fast-fading, honorable political tradition for which Wisconsin used to be known.

(h/t friend of the blog P.E.C.)