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On Wednesday, Democrats in the US House tried to bring up a discharge petition to get a clean debt ceiling bill through congress and end the crisis manufactured by extremist MAGA Republicans in an attempt to force policy through taking the economy of the United States hostage. From the Hill:

Every House Democrat has endorsed the discharge petition to force a vote on legislation to hike the debt ceiling and prevent a default, party leaders announced Wednesday.

The signatures of the two final holdouts — Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii) — puts the total number at 213, meaning Democratic leaders still need to find five Republicans for the petition to be successful.

“It takes a handful of members of the GOP to say, ‘Enough,’” Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the Democratic whip, told reporters in the Capitol.

That’s a heavy lift, since it would require GOP lawmakers to buck the wishes of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is in tense negotiations with the White House over a debt-ceiling package and is opposed to a vote on the “clean” debt-limit hike preferred by Democrats.

All Democrats needed were five(5) sane Republicans in the old mold of doing what is right for the country to sign on to the discharge petition to end this insane manufactured crisis. Not only could Democrats find 5 sane Republicans in the House, they could not find even one.

So there you go Iowans – proof positive that Iowa’s congressional delegation is every bit as extremist and Trump MAGA right wingers as they come.

Did Ashley Hinson stand up to end the manufactured crisis and for Iowans? To quote John Boehner “Not just NO, but HELL NO!”

Did Zach Nunn stand up for Iowans? Not just NO, but HELL NO!

How about Randy Feenstra? Not just NO, but HELL NO!

What about the self styled moderate Mariannette Miller-Meeks? Not just NO, but HELL NO! She’s just as extremist as the rest.

Elections have consequences, sometimes really bad consequences. So for all those really smart Iowans who thought having a state legislature with an extreme right wing veto proof majority, an extreme right wing governor and an extremist right wing congressional delegation  was a good idea, how do you like the consequences?

Iowa’s once proud school system will slowly be dismantled as religious schools syphon off funds much needed for public schools; children will be moved into the labor force at too young an age to make up for adults fleeing Iowa; the hungry will go hungrier as the state wastes money trying to find any tiny bit of fraud, but we will have no check on these powers as the state auditor is reduced in ability to audit and the attorney general is so partisan that there will be no check on power from her office.

And at the national level, Iowa’s congressional delegation is little more than a rubber stamp for extremist policies that dominate the current Republican Party. So when you can’t go to a doctor because doctors have left Iowa due to abortion laws, or you have no money due to government failure to be able to pay bills or your Medicare or Medicaid has ended, Thank a Republican. But of course they will lie and said the Democrats did it.