I can't believe Russ Feingold (left) lost to that moron (right) six years ago. Good thing we're fixing that this year.

Here is Wisconsin’s one-term wonder Ron Johnson trying to explain why the media would dare ask him to do his job and hold hearings and a vote on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee:

“I have never had the press press me so hard to make a change of position,” Johnson said. “The press wants the Supreme Court to flip because the press is not particularly interested in freedom of speech,” he added. “When other Americans, other than the members of the press, can get their message out, the press’s power is reduced. You engage in campaign finance reform, which restricts free speech, that makes a few members of the press have all the more power. So the press is really not for freedom of speech. They like restrictions in speech because it gives them more power. So again, they want to see the Supreme Court flipped. I got that.

According to this moron:

1. The Press isn’t interested in Freedom of Speech, even though it is literally the only profession specifically protected in the U.S. Constitution.

2. Campaign finance reform restricts speech because apparently you are not allowed to say anything unless you spend a few million dollars in political advertising. Anything else isn’t “speech”, it’s ... guttural noises? Who knows! It’s just not speech.

3. The press likes restrictions on “speech”, which remember, is money, not actual speech, because it gives them more power. You know, like the power to ask a sitting senator why his party won’t do the job the Constitution demands of them. That’s dangerous power which can only be constrained by shipping millions of dollars to …

4. … media companies HAPPY to take those millions of dollars in very expensive speechifying.

5. Therefore, the media want the Supreme Court flipped because it would mean less money for them, and they aren’t in the business of … making … money? Huh?

Of the hell with it. Can we get Russ Feingold back tomorrow? No? Well, you can help get us closer to that day.