Meet The Newly-Empowered Right-Wing Radicals
He calls Rick Santorum his “soul mate” and labor union activists “slobs.” He wants to end not only the minimum wage but weekends and paid sick leave and called for the elimination of municipal water disinfection, calling it “big government.”
He opposes abortion for any reason and wants to make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion even to save the life of the mother.
He has said that the “gals” are running the nation and ruining it and that the “country is not going to survive if we continue this war on men.”
Grothman has called Planned Parenthood “the most racist organization” in the country while supporting the Ugandan law that makes homosexuality a crime.
Joni Ernst, the newly-elected Iowa Senator, is another Tuesday winner who goes where the buses don’t run. She has referred to President Obama as both “apathetic” and a “dictator.” She carries a gun which, she says, she may need to defend herself from the government. Ernst echoes the the John Birch Society on Agenda 21, an innocuous United Nations initiative that “seeks for the government to curtail your freedom to travel as you please, own a gas-powered car, live in suburbs or rural areas, and raise a family. Furthermore, it would eliminate your private property rights through eminent domain.” But what really is Agenda 21? It’s a non-binding UN resolution that asks nations to conserve open land by encouraging people to live in more populated areas. Period. That’s it. Nothing to see here. Ernst is “flattered” when she is compared to that “strong leader,” Sarah Palin. Ernst believes in nullification, a Civil War-era notion that states could nullify federal laws they didn’t agree with. She referred to the mass shooting at University of California, Santa Barbara as “an unfortunate accident.” As a senator who can weigh in on judicial nominations, she’s vowed to block nominees who don’t follow Biblical law. As a state senator, Ernst says she missed half her votes because of National Guard service, but an investigation by The Gazette revealed that just 10% of missed votes were on days she was on duty.
Thom Tillis, who eked out a North Carolina Senate win by less than two points against Kay Hagan, agrees with Joni Ernst that there should be a personhood amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As Speaker of the House in his state, he tacked an anti-abortion provision to a motorcycle safety bill that would have closed all but one of North Carolina’s abortion clinics. Tillis has compared welfare to reparations, claiming the United States has “redistributed” “trillions of dollars over the years” — amounting to “de facto reparations.” And Tillis has stated, “What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance.”
It’s no longer the burden of Democrats to produce. It’s incumbent (you’ll pardon the expression) upon the right to show what it can accomplish. I’m reminded of the old saw about being careful about what you ask for, because you might get it. If these far-right radicals are half as good at governing as they’ve been at heckling from the sidelines, they’ll be political superstars.
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eyelashviper November 5th, 2014 at 16:45
Now that the fright wing has taken over Congress, and many state houses, this is our future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESI19h4wDo
Herb Sarge Phelps November 5th, 2014 at 15:54
from people I talked to about the elections as well as my own thoughts:
Too much character attacks. Several said they didn’t know what the candidates stood for but they heard so much negative stuff they figured it wasn’t worth voting or feeling good about who they voted for.
Democrats trying to run away from Obama and being like Republicans, so why not just vote Republicans since both wanted to sell themselves as alike.
Democrats are just weak and spineless.
Republicans won’t do anything and neither with Democrats so what difference does it make.
My thoughts, Democrats screwed up by not running on what good has been accomplished because of Obama and the Democrats. News media did a very bad job of informing voters, and the money, oh yeah the damn money.
Herb Sarge Phelps November 5th, 2014 at 16:54
from people I talked to about the elections as well as my own thoughts:
Too much character attacks. Several said they didn’t know what the candidates stood for but they heard so much negative stuff they figured it wasn’t worth voting or feeling good about who they voted for.
Democrats trying to run away from Obama and being like Republicans, so why not just vote Republicans since both wanted to sell themselves as alike.
Democrats are just weak and spineless.
Republicans won’t do anything and neither with Democrats so what difference does it make.
My thoughts, Democrats screwed up by not running on what good has been accomplished because of Obama and the Democrats. News media did a very bad job of informing voters, and the money, oh yeah the damn money.
Tommy6860 November 5th, 2014 at 16:57
With extremists like Grotham, Ernst, Tillis along with the plethora of simpleton fundamentalists now going to be more prevalent in congress, we should be worried about becoming the next Pakistan. Just read what Grotham (as one wing-nut in the GOP) says, compare that to the those they hate who kill people for simply being a little liberal in Pakistan, and you’ll see little to no difference. Extremism through ideology is the worst kind and be ready for the hate pablum to abound after the first week of January.
Tommy6860 November 5th, 2014 at 17:57
With extremists like Grotham, Ernst, Tillis along with the plethora of simpleton fundamentalists now going to be more prevalent in congress, we should be worried about becoming the next Pakistan. Just read what Grotham (as one wing-nut in the GOP) says, compare that to the those they hate who kill people for simply being a little liberal in Pakistan, and you’ll see little to no difference. Extremism through ideology is the worst kind and be ready for the hate pablum to abound after the first week of January.
Suzanne Williams November 5th, 2014 at 19:26
So, should we roll over and play dead now? Or later? :(
RK Johnston November 5th, 2014 at 20:30
Neither!
We may have lost a major battle…but the war goes on!
And as there is one breath left in me…there will be no surrender!
–RKJ
Suzanne Williams November 5th, 2014 at 20:26
So, should we roll over and play dead now? Or later? :(
RK Johnston November 5th, 2014 at 21:30
Neither!
We may have lost a major battle…but the war goes on!
And as there is one breath left in me…there will be no surrender!
–RKJ
RK Johnston November 5th, 2014 at 20:28
Coming up:
GOP Civil War–Round Two.
Establishment vs Tea Party.
I do remember when many of the newly-elected Tea Party wing members of the GOP came into Congress, demanding plum assignments as if it were their birthright.
When the establishment GOP told them to go suck eggs, the first “GOP Schizm” followed.
Expect more of the same come January.
–RKJ
RK Johnston November 5th, 2014 at 21:28
Coming up:
GOP Civil War–Round Two.
Establishment vs Tea Party.
I do remember when many of the newly-elected Tea Party wing members of the GOP came into Congress, demanding plum assignments as if it were their birthright.
When the establishment GOP told them to go suck eggs, the first “GOP Schizm” followed.
Expect more of the same come January.
–RKJ
notadailycaller November 6th, 2014 at 15:24
I love California.
Yukiko November 6th, 2014 at 23:11
I didn’t notice who wrote this ‘article’ until after I finished reading it. Nevertheless, while reading it all I could think was this sounds and smells like the claptrap that comes out of Alan Colmes rear end.
Yukiko November 7th, 2014 at 00:11
I didn’t notice who wrote this ‘article’ until after I finished reading it. Nevertheless, while reading it all I could think was this sounds and smells like the claptrap that comes out of Alan Colmes rear end.
AnthonyLook November 7th, 2014 at 01:28
The Republicans won at electing even more extremists. It is a deficit for them. They can no longer slide by doing nothing; and what they are about to try and do; all heck is gonna break.
AnthonyLook November 7th, 2014 at 02:28
The Republicans won at electing even more extremists. It is a deficit for them. They can no longer slide by doing nothing; and what they are about to try and do; all heck is gonna break.