Meet the "Rising Star" Responding to the State of the Union

Senator Joni Ernst is completely unfit for the office she holds. Yes, she has a good personal story. Lots of people who shouldn't be Senators have good personal stories though. Ernst is amongst them.

First off, as you can see above, she's a climate change denier. Ernst says a lot of other embarrassingly stupid things. On the lazy, young people:

In the audio Ernst said a "generation of people" has been created that relies "on the government to provide absolutely everything for them." Ernst added that "it's going to take a lot of education to get people out of that. It's going to be very painful and we know that."
She pointed out that the Affordable Care Act would exacerbate this problem. "We’re looking at Obamacare right now. Once we start with those benefits in January, how are we going to get people off of those?" she said. "It’s exponentially harder to remove people once they’ve already been on those programs."

Oh, I'm not done, again. Here's her making a fool of herself on abortion:

Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst, the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said Thursday night that she supported some specific exceptions to a general ban on all abortions but refused to specify exactly what those exceptions would be.

“There would be certain exceptions but again it’s something that has to be discussed,” Ernst said. “I support life. Those things come together when there is consensus upon what is put into legislation. Right now there is not consensus but I do believe in supporting life.”

No, I'm not done yet. There's her IRS statements:

“I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately,” Ernst said. “Immediately. Which is something that we have done with this tax cut that we have done in Iowa but then work over the long term to reform our tax system. I say scrap the IRS let's start all over again.”

She's called for impeachment before:

He is continually using executive order, he is making appointments without authority. So yes, absolutely he is overstepping his bounds. And I do think that, yes, he should face those repercussions. Now, whether that’s removal from office, whether that’s impeachment... 
But as a U.S. senator, absolutely -- as a U.S. senator though, we have to push that issue, and we can’t be silent on things like that. And unfortunately we have a number of legislators right now that simply let these things happen. They are not speaking up against these actions. They're not speaking out against the president when he oversteps his bounds, when he makes those appointments, when he’s appointing czars, when he is producing executive orders in a threat to a Congress that won’t do as he wishes. 

So he has become a dictator. He is running amok. He is not following our Constitution, and unfortunately we have leaders who are not serving as leaders right now. They’re not stepping up, they’re not defending the Constitution, and they are not defending you and me.

She advocated for states nullifying federal laws, George Wallace must live in her! Oh, and her and the other Freshman Republicans got together to advocate zeroing out Food Stamps completely in the new budget.

I could go on- but the point is that this woman is the "best and brightest" of the Republican Party, and you'll get to see her right after the President gives his State of the Union.