Turns out that farm subsidies aren’t the only federal program Joni Ernst won’t vote to kill if she wins that Senate race. There’s one more federal program she wants to keep.
Ernst likes FEMA and wants to keep it! So does her father. This even though some blue states benefit from it sometimes, too!
Go figure.
She won’t even squawk about appropriations for it. Then again, she’s a turkey, not a chicken. So she might cluck.
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APPENDED: From the Comments thread here:
EMichael / October 8, 2014 10:55 am
[T]his this cretin is in a close race despite believing that state officials should have the ability to arrest Federal workers for doing their jobs.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Me / October 8, 2014 11:40 am
I sooo would like to see a Braley ad featuring someone whose family now has healthcare insurance, thanks to Obamacare’s federal subsidies–who makes the point in the ad that Ernst wants Iowa officials to go to Washington and arrest the bureaucrats at the IRS or HHS who are processing those subsidies.
Or, better yet, someone who owns a construction company in Montgomery County, IA–and who lost out to Culver Construction in the FEMA-money bidding for those post-flooding construction projects–insist that state officials arrest the FEMA folks who approved the contract with Culver Construction.
See? You can make this stuff up! 10/8 at 11:52 a.m.
Ernst is ridiculous, but Iowa has been a fairly blue state for some time. Went for Obama by 10 points and six points in 08 and 12, respectively, and Tom Harkin has been about as blue a Senator as you get.
Like most Americans, Iowans are generally stupid people.
I mean, this cretin is in a close race despite believing that state officials should have the ability to arrest Federal workers for doing their jobs.
You can’t make this stuff up.
EMichael:
You are safe from her mostly as you are not a boar.
I sooo would like to see a Braley ad featuring someone whose family now has healthcare insurance, thanks to Obamacare’s federal subsidies–who makes the point in the ad that Ernst wants Iowa officials to go to Washington and arrest the bureaucrats at the IRS or HHS who are processing those subsidies.
Or, better yet, someone who owns a construction company in Montgomery County, IA–and who lost out to Culver Construction in the FEMA-money bidding for those post-flooding construction projects–insist that state officials arrest the FEMA folks who approved the contract with Culver Construction.
It seems to me the Democrats have absolutely given up on reminding voters who have insurance through an employer that now, because of the new law, they no longer have to worry that they won’t be able to get insurance if they lose the job. They’re just hoping to stay quiet and hope only the Tea Partiers — a given at the polling place — will remember they supposedly don’t like the law.