BREAKING : Joni Ernst to deliver rebuttal to State of the Union speech!!

[bullwinkle428]

"Newly elected Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, Republicans announced Thursday.

The freshman senator is the first woman elected to the office from Iowa and the first female combat veteran to serve in the United States Senate.

Ernst, who beat Democrat Bruce Braley decisively in November, told reporters she is "humbled and honored" to have the opportunity to deliver the address."

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/iowas-joni-ernst-deliver-gop-response-state-union-n286976

[mstinamotorcity2]

1. Get her a pig

and two bottles of Water

[LibDemAlways]

2. The Repuke response should take only a few seconds

and, if honest, would be: "Republicans oppose everything he just said, and we will work diligently to screw the 99% any way we can. Thanks for voting for us, suckers."

Makes no difference which toady delivers it. The message is always the same.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

14. Exactly! It doesn't matter what President Obama says. If he's for it,

they're not just against it, but they are absolutely positive it is the worst thing ever in the history of ever.

[lpbk2713]

16. True. They could phone it in.

They could read from a script from a couple of years ago and no one would know any different.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Seriously?

That should be entertaining.

[Politicalboi]

4. Little Miss Wallflower

Who wouldn't do an interview with newspapers is now going to speak in front of millions. Oink!

[Tanuki]

15. I guess she's ok with delivering a script written by someone else,

as opposed to putting herself in the position of having to answer questions off the cuff. I'm sure her GOP handlers don't want to risk another gaffe such as the one in which she claimed to have inside knowledge that there were actually WMDs in Iraq. I guess even the Repugs are sick of Sarah Palin so they need a new "game changer." Pig Castrator Barbie?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

5. I suspect she may be auditioning for a Veep spot

However, SOTU rebuttals didn't necessarily work out well for Bobby Jindal or Marco Rubio.

[COLGATE4]

20. Not to mention Michelle (where's the camera????) Bachmann. nr

[Mass]

6. So, what is to come, jail time, ridiculousness, or problem with the ethics committee ?

It seems to be the fate of those Republicans who gave the rebuttal.

[bravenak]

7. Yay!!!

[jwirr]

8. That is going to be fun.

[BlueStater]

9. And the longstanding tradition of embarrassing SOTU rebuttals from the Pukes will continue it seems.

On the other hand, it will give Iowa a chance to see just what sort of dipshit they elected to represent their state.

[rufus dog]

10. They just never learn

Bobby, Bob, Marco, Bachman, they just keep throwing out new meat.

[underpants]

13. Yes it is a remarkably consistent string of fail

Or about to fail (McDonnell)

[Vinca]

11. Just what we need - a rebuttal from a hog castrator.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. I had to look to see if was The Onion

After years of the Republican Klown Kar Kavalcade for their presidential primaries, they now want to turn the State of the Union into a circus act too - anything to distract attention from the president.

Just to be clear: it's not about the hog castration - that's just a gimmick. It this:

Iowa State Sen. Joni Ernst has called for impeachment, nullification, and the elimination of nonexistent treaties.


Ernst has alleged that the federal government is partnering with the United Nations to force Iowans off their land and into urban cores as part of a conspiracy called Agenda 21. At a campaign event last November, she said:

All of us agreed that Agenda 21 is a horrible idea. One of those implications to Americans, again, going back to what did it does do to the individual family here in the state of Iowa, and what I've seen, the implications that it has here is moving people off of their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers, and then telling them that you don't have property rights anymore. These are all things that the UN is behind, and it's bad for the United States and bad for families here in the state of Iowa.

At a candidate forum in January, she said that President Obama has "become a dictator" and should be impeached.
Meeting with business leaders in late August, she complained about the existence of federal minimum wage. Here's what she said, per the Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette:

The minimum wage is a safety net. For the federal government to set the minimum wage for all 50 states is ridiculous…The standard of living in Iowa is different than it is in New York or California or Texas. One size does not fit all.

She told the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition last September that federal laws can be nullified by states:

She told the Des Moines Register editorial board in May that the United States really did find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Per my colleague Pat Caldwell:

"We don't know that there were weapons on the ground when we went in," she said, "however, I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." When a Register reporter quizzed her on what information she has, Ernst said, "My husband served in Saudi Arabia as the Army Central Command sergeant major for a year and that's a hot-button topic in that area."

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/joni-ernst-bruce-braley-agenda-21-conspiracy-theory

[onecaliberal]

17. Can't wait to hear it

Lol....

[Control-Z]

18. It appears to be the republican hazing

ritual for their new senators.

[jmowreader]

19. I thought this was the standard response to any Obama speech

[Warren DeMontague]

21. They really think she's some sort of PR winner

maybe that 'no-nonsense pig castrator' shtick works in red flyover land, but I think most of America is gonna be

[CK_John]

22. Wonder if she'll be in uniform?

[moondust]

23. The Great Castrator Speaketh!

Outlines her plans to slash the massive pork from farm subsidies! (Just kidding.)

Oink! Oink! (Better keep your distance, Mitch.)