'Like watching a temper tantrum by a 2-year-old'

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'Like watching a temper tantrum by a 2-year-old'
By Steve Benen
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Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:17 AM EDT

<..> Two years later, Roll Call reports that Johnson is poised to "purge nearly his entire Washington, D.C.-based legislative team," in large part because they expect the senator to work on legislation -- and he doesn't want to.

"He's an interesting case study of someone who has talked more than he has listened, lectured more than he has developed relationships with his colleagues, and now he's having a tough time because of that behavior in advancing his policy goals," one senior GOP aide said. "It's kind of like watching a temper tantrum by a 2-year-old in the middle of the grocery store." [...]

Sources indicated that when Johnson came to Washington, he put a staff together like "any other Senator" but quickly realized that the day-to-day grind of legislating was not his forte. Johnson said last week that he wanted more of his office's focus to be on building an effective messaging operation.

<..> This seems entirely too common in contemporary Republican politics -- the challenging work of crafting legislation, assembling coalitions, trudging through the committee process, making concessions, and agreeing to compromises requires a real commitment, and for those who just want to appear on Fox News, parade around CPAC with an entourage, and feel important, there appears to be no desire to actually legislate.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...r-old?lite

Sen. Ron Johnson ® of Wisconsin seems to have delusions about his job....he doesn't think he has to work. This is the teabagger mentality.

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Legislating requires commitment and intelligence. I suspect that 'teabagger mentality' often suffers from a lack of both. Maybe the Koch brothers should have remembered the sage advice, buyer beware.