Iowa GOP Senate Candidate Pro-Nullification?
The Republicans have been very careful this year to avoid Tea Party-supported candidates that will embarrass the party nationally and decrease their chances of taking over the Senate. But one seems to have slipped through:
Joni Ernst, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, appears to believe states can nullify federal laws. In a video obtained by The Daily Beast, Ernst said on September 13, 2013 at a forum held by the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition that Congress should not pass any laws “that the states would consider nullifying.”
Nullificatiion is a pre-civil war idea in which states could choose which federal laws they wanted to adopt or “nullify.” It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.
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mea_mark July 30th, 2014 at 15:38
The democrats are pouring on the ad dollars to try to win. I wonder if the republicans are going to do the same for Ernst, a controversial candidate for them. In what looks like a tight race, the republicans may have to their necks out for her if they want to win, but that may damage them overall. Should be interesting to see what the republicans do here.
mea_mark July 30th, 2014 at 15:38
The democrats are pouring on the ad dollars to try to win. I wonder if the republicans are going to do the same for Ernst, a controversial candidate for them. In what looks like a tight race, the republicans may have to stick their necks out for her if they want to win, but that may damage them overall. Should be interesting to see what the republicans do here.
link on ad dollars http://washingtonexaminer.com/tom-steyers-super-pac-hits-iowa-gop-senate-candidate-joni-ernst/article/2551452
viva_democracy July 30th, 2014 at 16:08
Not sure if she’s so ignorant that she is clueless about the facts or is she throwing red meat to her ignorant, clueless base?
tiredoftea July 30th, 2014 at 19:47
There’s a discernible difference?
runner_runner July 30th, 2014 at 16:08
Not sure if she’s so ignorant that she is clueless about the facts or is she throwing red meat to her ignorant, clueless base?
tiredoftea July 30th, 2014 at 19:47
There’s a discernible difference?
chair jackson July 30th, 2014 at 17:48
she fits right into the tea party’s pre-civil war mindset. wait ’til she comes out in favor of nullifying the emancipation proclamation. heehee. good times.
chair jackson July 30th, 2014 at 17:48
she fits right into the tea party’s pre-civil war mindset. wait ’til she comes out in favor of nullifying the emancipation proclamation. heehee. good times.
JKess July 30th, 2014 at 19:48
Once again the teabaggers prove that they have never actually read the US Constitution.
JKess July 30th, 2014 at 19:48
Once again the teabaggers prove that they have never actually read the US Constitution.
tiredoftea July 30th, 2014 at 19:49
Let’s not forget that nullification was also tried during the post Civil rights era when the Southern states defied the Fed.
tiredoftea July 30th, 2014 at 19:49
Let’s not forget that nullification was also tried during the post Civil rights era when the Southern states defied the Fed.
peacedreamer July 31st, 2014 at 03:47
Iowans elected Steve King (aka)” Mr FAIR tax” & leading Tea Party idiot..He owns a lot of land & doesn’t want the state messing with his property tax. Just another mouthy big businessman who wants to screw the little family farmers. IA also re-elected Two-Timing Terry B that is a total moron. He made a mess for IA in the 80s & 90s which people there forgot about for the most part. Didn’t give a rip about public health programs either & cut funding for prenatal visits for poor women.
Joni will fit right in with their schemes. Love Iowa (close by) but they don’t pay attention & watch lots of right wing news & evangelical tv…if not football & American Idol type shows. Most Iowans are working too hard to actually read newspapers or surf the net for info. The ones that aren’t can’t afford newspapers or internet. They have a good economy compared to other states & top ten rating in healthcare, thanks to their previous Democratic Gov who now heads the Dept. of Ag thanks to Mr. Obama. Only after the Repubs screw them again & they are suffering do they get active enough to vote in Dems. Guess this is so throughout the country.
Repubs pick the dumbest female candidates they can find, for the most part. Maybe their intent is to demonstrate that women are not smart enough to hold political office thus insuring more patriarchal dominance? The smart women in IA seem more likely to became accountants, lawyers, pharmacists, vets, doctors, nurses and enlist in the military because of training & benefits.
peacedreamer July 31st, 2014 at 03:47
Iowans elected Steve King (aka)” Mr FAIR tax” & leading Tea Party idiot..He owns a lot of land & doesn’t want the state messing with his property tax. Just another mouthy & very wealthy big businessman who wants to screw the little family farmers. IA also re-elected Two-Timing Terry B that is a total moron. He made a mess for IA in the 80s & 90s which people there forgot about for the most part. Didn’t give a rip about public health programs either & cut funding for prenatal visits for poor women.
Joni will fit right in with their schemes. Love Iowa (close by) but they don’t pay attention & watch lots of right wing news & evangelical tv…if not football & American Idol or Duck Dynasty type shows. Many Iowans are working too hard to actually read newspapers or surf the net for info. The ones that aren’t can’t afford newspapers or internet. They have a good economy compared to other states & top ten rating in healthcare, thanks to their previous Democratic Gov who now heads the Dept. of Ag (& thanks to Mr. Obama). Generally, wages are not as bad as other states.
Only after the Repubs screw them again & they are suffering do they get active enough to vote in Dems. Guess this is so throughout the country.
Repubs pick the dumbest female candidates (by that I mean they are women who defer thinking to men, i.e Bachmann) they can find, for the most part. Maybe their intent is to demonstrate that women are not smart enough to hold political office thus insuring more patriarchal dominance? The smart women in IA seem more likely to become accountants, lawyers, pharmacists, vets, doctors, nurses and/or enlist in the military because of training & benefits (Joni?). Some women are book smart & life dumb.
Des Moines has less crime & violence than most cities but drugs are problematic everywhere you look. Colleges & universities are well funded. When floods come people help each other.
Much of the land is owned by foreign investors because common people can’t afford to buy it anymore. If you don’t own at least 1000 acres you can’t make enough to support a family. Ethanol helped a bit but most of that is due to wealthy farmers or corporate owned.
Did I mention that most Iowans have welcomed chicanos into their communities & have blended well into the communites? Yes a well known fact here. Of course when Bush was Prez there were some undocumenteds & work permit violators who were rounded up and thrown out. Most of them working at meat packing plants. Probably just didn’t want to give them raises…
Dems have little chance in MO of holding onto seats. Lots of dem voters have moved out of state or died. Does that answer the question as to why Obama came to Kansas City, MO today? It matters for the Congressional race one hellavalot. MO’s unemployment rate is 6.1% and people are making good money at the car plants again so, as goes IA, so goes MO. We survived Matt Blunt but people have short memories.