Why both parties were glad to hear Ron Johnson's big announcement

.MaddowBlog: It's no exaggeration to say Sen. Johnson is easily the GOP's most endangered Senate incumbent.

"the most irresponsible representative of Wisconsin citizens since the infamous Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in the 1950s."

With this in mind, his decision about 2022 was anyone's guess. On the one hand, Johnson didn't appear to be positioning himself for a career as a high-priced lobbyist, but on the other, he also didn't appear to be preparing for a re-election campaign in one of the nation's most competitive states.This is the decision Republican leaders, both on Capitol Hill and in the Badger State, strongly encouraged Johnson to make.

But what made the senator's announcement especially interesting is that Democrats were even more pleased than their GOP counterparts.

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