Funny thing – Trump not that popular in Iowa these days:
I have always had a snarky sense of humor, one that looks for the contradictions and internal ambiguations in pronouncements from on high. I think a lot of Americans share my skepticism and distrust of those with power – especially those with power who seem ill-prepared and ill-suited to have that power. Since Ronald Reagan, a preponderant number of ill-prepared and ill-suited folks seem to fall on the MAGA side of the ledger.
This week we had a couple of events where MAGA politicians seem to be little more than caricatures of themselves. The first came right out of the chute Monday. It came from Iowa’s new Attorney General. Now most of you know that Attorney Generals are supposed to be the highest law enforcement officer of the state. One would think that by definition therefore they would be fighting on the side for the law and those who uphold the law.
One would normally think that. Yet in Brenna Bird, Iowa has an AG who is a bit off the beam. She has previously come out against having the state pay for rape kits for women who have been physically assaulted. To me that is coming down on the side of the assaulter. Add to that that the the rape kits included the morning after pill, it looks like Bird wants victims to bear the child of that rape.
Monday Bird, Iowa’s top law enforcement officer, openly endorsed Donald Trump for President. For this who may have been sleeping for 20 years, one could make a case that Donald Trump is arguably the biggest criminal the US has ever seen. When my ears heard that I let out huge guffaw. It was like J. Edgar Hoover endorsing Al Capone for president.
I almost can’t think of anything comparable in our history. Of course arguably there really is no one on the MAGA side that is worth an endorsement of any kind this round. Yet, Iowa’s top law officer endorsing America’s top alleged criminal sure sets off the snark alarms in full blast.
Also this week we have the interesting case Of Marianette Miller-Meeks Iowa’s first district representative who often doesn’t seem to have a clue what to do. Her indecisiveness has caused her some distress this week. When the MAGA caucus picked the pathetic Jim Jordan of Ohio as its Speaker candidate, Miller-Meeks should have assessed him and voted against him for many reasons one of which is that he doesn’t do anything.
Yet she took her marching orders and voted for him. Jordan did not win the speakership in the first round. Miller-Meeks changed her vote from Jordan in the second round as Jordan lost again. Miller-Meeks raised the ire of the MAGA Jordan and Trump backers. Miller-Meeks has stepped off the Trump train before and raised the ire of Trump.
This time the Trump (and Jordan) goons came out in force to tell Miller-Meeks of the error of her ways by threatening her life. It is quite ironic that Miller-Meeks does not seem to understand who she is dealing with. She would have been much better off to base her campaign and time in office on seeking truth and quit playing games with the MAGA forces in our country. But she long ago opted to try to keep their votes to stay in office. Wednesday she paid the price.
It should be no surprise that Jordan is Donald Trump’s guy for speaker. And why wouldn’t he be? Jordan was a legislative lieutenant in Trump’s attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. And even as Trump was fueling the Jan. 6, 2021 riot and insurrection, Jordan was on the phone with him that day. We don’t know what they talked about. But we do know Jordan went on to vote to reject the unambiguous results of two states Joe Biden won, Pennsylvania and Arizona.
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Yet, every single Iowa Republican in Congress voted for him to be next in line to the presidency behind the vice-president. And if this wasn’t insult enough to our Republic, then what about the economic interests of the state they’re supposed to represent?
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Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who represents my congressional district, was one of the Iowans who threw her support to Jordan on the first vote. There were reports that Miller-Meeks waffled. But not when it counted, when it came time to vote. Instead of joining the 20 Republicans, largely from moderate districts, who couldn’t stomach a vote for Jordan, who resisted the pressure, Miller-Meeks jumped on board
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I’d like to think that when voters go to the polls next year, the ones who complain that our politics is so divided and dirty and that nobody knows how to get along and compromise, they will remember this sad day.
Voting for Miller-Meeks is truly voting against your own interests, Iowa’s interests and the interests of the country. Even she doesn’t know what side she is on. There is a very viable, very constituent oriented opponent in the first district in Christina Bohannan.
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