Quite surprised to find myself back in Iowa so soon. Where the tall corn grows. Where you'll find Sioux City Sue with her hair of gold and eyes of blue...
And a woman with absolutely no business sitting in the U.S. Senate, let alone the seat of Tom Harkin.
Joni Ernst represents the worst of contemporary Republican politics. Bought and paid for by the brothers Koch, salivating at the thought of privatizing Social Security, turning Medicare into a coupon scheme and Iowa's waterways into rivers of pig poo, all the while wowing the rubes with black helicopter fantasies and tales of REMF glory.
But what really goaded me to jump back to the ancient clunker I currently call a video editor was the ongoing right wing obsession with Bruce Braley's complaints about his neighbor's chickens.
Chickens. Gallus gallus domesticus. Ain't nobody here but us, etc.
And the idea that voters in the United States of America, a country limping forward from a second Great Depression, daily threatened with plutocrats, pandemics and police riots, a country at freaking war for crying out loud, are prepared to choose their elected representatives based on a dispute over stray chickens is just a bit too damned much for this d.i.y. PAC-man.
So tell me, Hawkeyes, is that all it takes? To mock a man because he doesn't like waking up with his neighbor's rooster under his window? That's enough to sway your blood-bought franchise?
Because, lord knows, there aren't any really important issues facing our nation right now...
As per usual, a direct link to the video is provided.
Update: per Cedwyn's excellent suggestion, here's a link to Bruce Braley's campaign page: http://www.brucebraley.com/