Sen. Ron Johnson invokes specter of USSR to attack President Obama's green energy programs
Tue Jul 17, 2012 at 09:34 AM PDT.
Sen. Ron Johnson invokes specter of USSR to attack President Obama's green energy programs
by Meteor Blades
Dead now for more than two decades, the Soviet Union has made a big comeback among Republicans trying to tie it in whatever twisted way possible to the Obama administration. Mitt Romney adviser John Lehman has warned about Soviet policy in the Arctic. John Boehner has labeled as "Soviet-style" the three-quarter-century-old dairy support program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And now Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a Romney surrogate, is comparing the administration's green energy programs with policies of the Soviets, Cubans and Venezuelans.
Johnson made these red-baiting remarks Tuesday on CNN's Starting Point in an interview with Soledad O'Brien:
“President Obama simply doesn’t understand that it’s the free enterprise systems, the private sector, the productive sector, not the government sector that creates long-term self-sustaining jobs,” Johnson declared. “Take a look at the Soviet Union, Venezuela’s economic basket case, and is anybody moving to the island paradise of Cuba?”
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