During a debate with her Democratic opponent, Bruce
Braley, Joni Ernst told the audience she is an independent leader, then
recited teabagger shriekking points on everything from “personhood”
amendments to privatizing Social Security.
Ernst got a free ride from the mainstream media who
were all enamored with her ad that basically said she is qualified to be
a Senator because she knows how to castrate a pig. This was intended
to be a play on the ability to “cut pork” in D.C. It was also intended
to tell Iowa’s farmers that someone just like them is running for the
Senate. Never mind the irony that’s lost on the fact that her puppet
masters, the Koch Brothers, love the pork subsidies that have gone their
way for years. Never mind that the Koch Brothers envisage limiting
participation in the political process to rich white men who practice
revisionist “christianity” and maybe their stepford wives.
In the name of creating their ideal plutocracy, the
Koch brothers’ useful idiots in the repugican cabal dutifully
gerrymander the House of Representatives to assure absolute control –
even when they are rejected by the majority of voters. Now they are
focused on grabbing control of the Senate.
The repugicans can’t win on their ideas and since
gerrymandering won’t help them in Senate races, they rely heavily on
propaganda to sway the gullible and and vote suppression to
disenfranchise people who see through the christo-fascism espoused by
the teabaggers and lip synced by “moderate” repugicans.
Most Americans recognize that incremental efforts to
disenfranchise voters who are not rich, white, “christian” and male
means every freedom we have in the U.S. constitution is in danger.
No one would voluntarily sign up to be mere pawns in
a society where a select few men have freedom while everyone else is
merely a means to the ends of those select few men.
That’s why candidates like Joni Ernst focus people’s
attention on entertaining commercials and limit their communications,
be it in speeches, town halls or political debates to demonizing their
opponents.
However, Ernst also has a special role to play as
the token woman in the Koch brothers’ stable of fascist marionettes. To
paraphrase Renee Elmers, Ernst can talk at woman “on their level” about
the “merits” of designating our bodies as property owned by the
corporate elite, regulated by their marionette government.
During an hour-long debate
with Democratic Candidate Bruce Braley Sunday night, Ernst tried to
divert from the fact that she was bought, paid for and indoctrinated by
the Koch Brother controlled teabaggers with her suggestion that donations
from Tom Breyers is exactly the same thing. The similarity only lies in
the fact that Breyers is also a rich political donor. Tom Breyers’ is
using his money to influence environmental policy in a manner that
preserves the planet, oh and breathing. The Koch brothers want to
dictate all areas of policy, exclude most of America from participation
in electing lawmakers and buy judges who will bend the constitution to
conform to the Koch Brother’s desired interpretation of it.
“When Ernst said she will fight for the renewable fuel standard, Braley interjected: “I’m not sure that’s what Sen. Ernst told the Koch brothers when she went to their secret meetings.” \“You’re not running against these other people; you’re running against me,” Ernst shot back. “I am an independent leader”
Yes, Ernst is an independent leader if you believe
that entails reciting talking points and policies as dictated a puppet
masters.
During the debate on climate change, Ernst made a
point of telling people she knows all about environmental policy because
she drives a hybrid and she recycles. She also wants to get rid of the
EPA because it passed really bad regulations,
even if she can’t name one. Ernst sounds like a Palin clone when it
comes to questions that involve expressing her own views on areas she
should have some opinions about if she’s going to be a lawmaker.
During the debate, Ernst was pressed to defend
“several positions she staked out on her way to winning the repugican
primary in June, such as supporting a Personhood amendment, being open
to privatizing Social Security, opposing a federal minimum wage, hoping
to eventually phase out ethanol subsidies, and wanting to eliminate the
Department of Education.”
In reality, this forced Ernst to show that she is
not an “independent leader.” She recites her lines and does as she’s
told just like every teabagger. Nothing exemplifies that
more than Ernst’s position on “personhood.” A video by the DSCC provides
a condensed explanation of Ernst’s very extreme views on “personhood.”
As a state senator, Ernst fought for the inclusion
of one of the most extreme versions of a personhood amendment to the
state’s constitution. Ernst tried to revise history during the debate
on Sunday night, as noted by Politico.
The amendment that is being referenced by the congressman would not do any of the things that you stated it would do. That amendment is simply a statement that I support life.” She added that she supports “a woman’s right to contraception.
Crooks and Liars
explains the plain meaning of the personhood Amendment (which has
exactly the same language the version in North Dakota) that Ernst
sponsored very clearly.
The language of the amendment states that life begins at conception, and if allowed to stand, would effectively ban forms of birth control that stop implantation, not to mention abortion. There are no exceptions to this. No rape exception and certainly no incest exception.
The very nature of personhood amendments means that
common forms of birth control are banned. One need only read the Hobby
Lobby ruling to see how the belief that life begins at conception
results in a ban on certain kinds of birth control It will ban abortion
under all circumstances – including rape, incest and even when the
mother’s life is in danger.
When Ernst spoken on the amendment as a state
Senator, she said that doctors who perform abortions should be punished.
You can see it for yourself in this video by Bruce Braley’s campaign.
In other words, Ernst showed us she can lie just as
well as any other candidate who was bought and paid for by the Koch
brothers.
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