Yesterday, during Secretary Clinton's Benghazi testimony, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson once again distinguished himself as a pernicious canker upon the body politic. GOP lawmakers were giving Madam Secretary a hard time in order to create vdeo footage for their almost-certain swift boating of her in 2016, should she receive the Democratic nod for President. Johnson's ceaseless drumming about Susan Rice's talking points produced the Secretary's quickly-viral rhetorical question, "What difference does it make?"
Johnson is being widely pilloried in the press as an idiot. The difference between an idiot and an evil is important, however. So...
Did you know ... that in 2010 Johnson testified that protecting children from predator priests would be inadvisable because it would be "bad for business"? Yanira Farray from Veterans Today quotes Jud Lounsbury's blog Uppity Wisconsin:
Earlier this year, Ron Johnson, testified before the Wisconsin State Senate on behalf of the Green Bay Diocese Finance Council, which has ultimate decision power in deciding whether to settle abuse law suits and can even overrule a diocese’s bishop decision in how to proceed.
Johnson was there to oppose the so-call Child Victims Bill, which would have made it easier to go after child predators. Under current law, many children do not come forward until after the statute of limitations has expired– this law would have made exceptions in such circumstances....
Unbelievably, during his testimony, Johnson asks an a jaw-droppingly stupid question:
“I think its a valid question to ask if the employer of the perpetrator should also be severely damaged, possibly destroyed, in a legitimate desire for justice?”
Both Lounsbury's and Farray provide video clips to support their claims.
Idiocy can be funny. Putting children in harm's way in the name of business is immoral, maybe evil.
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