Joni, Joni, Joni
I got notes from several of y’all about Iowa’s Senator Joni Ernst promising to impeach Joe Biden if he’s elected president.
Obviously, the senate can’t impeach anybody, only the House can do that, but nobody told Joni.
Well, she’s re-thought that.
Sen.Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Monday walked back her comments a day earlier warning that Congress could immediately impeach Democrat Joe Biden over his Ukraine dealings if he’s elected president in November.
Speaking with reporters just off the Senate floor, Ernst said her weekend remarks were overblown and that she was trying to argue that Democrats have made impeachment — once a political tool reserved for extreme circumstances — the new normal in today’s partisan warfare.
Ya know, I suspect her remarks were “overblown” because they are incredibility dumb, and secondly because they really did sound like a threat.
Ernst also “spilled the beans” about the real purpose of the Republicans going after Biden – to lower his vote in Iowa. So, there may be one person in Washington dumber than Trump.
What? She ran out of pigs to castrate?
1Joni doesn’t understand the impeachment process, but she gets to vote on witnesses.
I’ll be glad when she goes back to the hog farm.
2The difference between R’s and D’s.
3The R’s want to impeach a candinate before they are even elected based upon a russian manufactored conspiracy theory ( Remember the false trash “elders of Zion” was a product of the czar’s secret police to justify the pograms)
While the D’s have one candinate who already has given past thuglicans a pass on criminal activities ( biden ’08) and another, Yang, who feels a pardon would be in order since prosecuting billionaires and their enablers would be too divisive since everyone just “knows” that laws don’t apply to the extremely wealthy and powerful.
And people wonder why the D’s get rolled.
I here Joni’s in some trouble with her re-election prospects this November. Gee, I wonder why?
4That’s “hear”. I which there was an editing button on this thing.
5That’s “hear”. Where’s the Edit button?
6My plan is to donate early, often, and as generously as I can to any Dem candidate running against a Republican Senator. tRump won’t last 6 months–if re-elected– against a full-on press by both house and senate.
7So, Democrats made impeachment the new normal.
And they’ve made quite a case to prove it:
The president should never, ever be impeached if all he did was try to force an ally to announce an investigation into his political rival or it’s bye-bye any help in their war.
If, otoh, a party spends 4 years trying to try to find a crime — any crime — to pin on a president and finally has to settle for backing him into a corner and getting him to lie about a blow job, well, THAT’S an extreme circumstance for sure.
8“My” Joni has spent her entire term doing nothing and all of a sudden she’s front and center. I have a theory about that. She is up for election and not doing well at all. In fact she is the third most disliked member of the Senate. Only Moscow Mitch and Wimpy Susan poll lower. Her opponent is gaining on her. And that gal seem bright and qualified for the job even if she belongs to the wrong party.
I think Joni is doing all in her power to bring attention to herself and prove just what a loyal little Trumper she is. That way, when and if she fails to keep her seat, perhaps the Repugs will reward her for her loyalty and appoint her to something. Maybe the Minister of Hog Castration will be created for her.
Iowa sends six people to Congress and out of them three are utter losers. We have Joni, Grassely and the repulsive Steve King. What are the odds?
9Yes I remember the years long search for evidence against Bill Clinton, starting with a real estate deal and ending with a blow job. If anyone needed to be brought up on criminal charges it was Shrub and Cheney for getting us into this stupid war. Putinpublicans have no positive ideas for our country and they want to keep it that way!
10“Overblown” = “made while drunk.”
FIFY, Senator Breadbags.
11Really, Joni Ernst needs to be removed from the Senate in November. Who is the Democrat running against her? I’d like to donate to him/her. Like Charles Phillips, up-thread, I have a modest fund for donations to the Democratic opponents of Republican Congresscritters, particularly Senators. Let’s flip the Senate!
12thatotherjean, dim bulb’s opponent is Ed Mauro. https://eddiemauro.com/
13BarbinDC: don’t worry, all the rest of us also get fouled up with things like spelling. Even those who won a spelling bee .. back in 1960.
Off-topic, but surely everyone has seen the news about Rush Limbaugh having lung cancer? I think we should pool our money and send him a get-well gift. Maybe a box of cigars? [Sorry, I could not resist. I’ll now go do my penance, which is tutoring high school kids in math for the next 2.5 hours.]
14Joni was never the sharpest pencil in the box. She’s proved that over and over again. Just don’t rely on her for any damn thing. I really miss her predecessor, Senator Tom Harkin. His “Washington” abode was a split level in northern Virginia. I could drive to his house in about 5 minutes. He was amazed at the purchase price which he said could actually buy him an entire farm, lock stock and barrel, in Iowa.
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