Editor:
Here comes the Koch Industries candidate, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, to bring you the GOP’s rebuttal to the State the Union (even though she has only been a U.S. senator for two weeks) – channeling her union with the Mil, the NRA and Duck Dynasty via her camo pumps!
Joni went into her oft-repeated story of bread bagged shoes, working the morning biscuit line at Hardees and how she will apply her pig castration expertise in Washington D.C.
My thoughts were, first, “What? she could afford store-bought shoes? and store bought bread?” My second was, “What’s a farmer, one with pigs, doing without galoshes?” “Click” went the TV.
Joni Ernst has already made it clear that the Koch brothers are her true constituency and is echoing them all the way.
She said that she considers the Clean Water Act to be “damaging” to business and that she supports replacing it with “voluntary measures.”
She wants to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.
She doubts climate change is man-made.
She also wants to castrate the IRS, and the U.S. Department of Education.
She wants to eliminate rules/regulations that inhibit strong free-market economy – i.e. free pass to pollute the land, sea, air, our foods.
She opposes abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest, and believes doctors who perform abortions should face criminal punishment.
Wants a person-hood amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
She believes in the Agenda 21 conspiracy (please Google that one).
She wants to eliminate the federal minimum wage.
She supports a flat tax on income (translation: tax cuts to the super wealthy, more for the rest of us).
She wants to send U.S. ground troops back to Iraq.
She thinks President Obama “has become a dictator” and should be impeached.
She would support legislation to arrest government employees trying to administer the Affordable Care Act. Huh?
She wants to privatize federal student loans.
She’s one of those pro-lifers who just can’t get enough of guns, and carries one with her at all times in case she has to defend herself against the U.S. government.
She’s a Tenther (Google it).
And she is pro-amnesty just like the Koch Bros. and all true Libertarians.
When she talks about Washington D.C. and slashing the budget saying ‘Let’s make ’em squeal’ she’s talking about YOU. Making YOU, “the takers,” as she calls the majority of Americans, squeal.
She’s not talking about making her sponsors (Koch….) or her new buds in Congress, the people she calls the “Givers,” squeal.
Self-interest will prevail.
She says, “We have to take a good, hard look at entitlement programs and figure out how to get people off of those. It’s exponentially harder to remove people once they’ve already been on those programs.”
So look forward to, in her own words, a “very painful lesson in self-sufficiency.”
Ernst’s family farm in Red Oak, Iowa received over $460,000 in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2006. Family members received conservation payments, commodity subsidies, and agricultural aid.
Culver Construction, owned by Ernst’s father, Richard Culver, received more than $200,000 in county contracts while she served as auditor of Montgomery County, Iowa, despite a strict conflict-of-interest code governing the provision of contracts to family members of county officials.
Her husband Gail has been caught repeatedly calling Hillary Clinton a “hag” (an old woman who is ugly), former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano a “traitorous skank,” and joked about shooting ex-wives (he divorced his first wife to marry young ROTC Joni who is just a couple years older than his oldest daughter).
He’s an ugly old man himself, so shouldn’t talk.
The Koch network has grown so sophisticated it rivals even the official Republican Party in its ability to shape policy debates and elections.
Besides spending hundreds of millions on electoral ads, its components include grassroots organizing, technology-driven get-out-the vote efforts, political consulting firms that recruit and train right-wing candidates, firms that provide technological and administrative support to Koch-backed groups, as well as arms of the network that aim at specific demographics, like the millennial-focused Generation Opportunity and Latino-focused Libre Initiative.
Diane Daiute
Sweet Home