When I learned Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) had voted against Senator Elizabeth Warren’s bill to lower student loan rates, I tweeted to him:
Why @SenRonJohnson are you filibustering a bill to refinance student loans? The rest of us don’t have a rich father-in-law. #StudentLoans
His response was this:
@TopOfMyHead Because the government needs to stop doing things that make college costs rise. http://1.usa.gov/1kdUAJy
I checked out the link (I didn’t watch the video), but read the transcript – as if this excused his wrong headed vote. Somehow, he is equating the rising cost of education to government intervention. This is suppose to excuse a vote that would lower the cost of a student loan. So, rather than work to make education more affordable for students, he’s going to blame the government.
According to Johnson’s figures,
