You may have heard about it; The Civil War. The North fought the South to preserve the Union and free the slaves--except for those conscripted to work on the railroad for ten cents an hour.

It has always been easy to find some good solid fascist racists down South like DeMint or Perry or Allen or scores of others. They are all repubs now even though it was the Republican Party  that had been the vanguard of the North during this Civil War.

Well, we are seeing more and more northerners from the Republican Party attempting to reverse all those gains we saw following the Civil War; the changes that took over a hundred years to make.

There are plenty of ding dongs in the Midwest, believe you me!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu79R9IxqvE

And the King of Iowa, THE premier ding dong is Representative Steve King.

Steve was born within a year of my birthday and resided most of his life about 150 miles from where I grew up. I grew up in the Minneapolis area of course and King was born and raised in NW Iowa.  There really is nothing in NW Iowa except farms; after all this is the richest farmland in the world running from southern Minnesota through Iowa.

Now when we were children and on into our teen years, the family farm still kind of reigned. The Protestant farmer would only have three or four kids and everybody worked the farm until they went off to college, if in fact they decided to go to college; which hardly ever happened until the first GI Bill. The problem was that farms were not available to purchase exactly. And when mom and dad finally died the land would be divied up among the children.

Expansion involved marrying the girl down the country road so that your 1/3 share could be added to your new bride's ¼ share and you could make a start of it. You would attempt to buy off one of your siblings' share as well as a share from one of her siblings.  Eventually, of course, the family farm died and all the corporations had to do was show up at estate sales and bankruptcy auctions and this culture was dead.

The ethos of the entire area running from Minnesota through Iowa was rather inbred in the fifties and 60's as it had been for a century prior to that. I doubt that King ever saw a Black Man or an Hispanic before he left for college somewhere in Missouri.  He was probably also shocked to see so many women actually taking up college seats that 'should' have gone to the men.

I do not know what King did following graduation in '70 and up until he set up his own construction company in '75. I see no record of any military service so he might have pursued some deferal by working on his parent's farm.

But he does not show up in politics until '96 as an Iowa State Representative and he becomes a member of Congress in 2003.

I know people like King and have known them all my life. I am sure he would wish to tell you about how hard his folks worked all their lives--Dad died in '91 at age 70, Mumsy is still alive at 90. He then would want you to know all of the sacrifices he had to make in order to set up and keep his construction company alive. Besides the taxes he would have had to have dealt with licenses and permits and all that fun stuff. He would have known all the important government officials which would have aided him in receiving government contracts as well as those licenses and permits. Probably knew these folks all his life since he never really left NW Iowa.

King is really part and parcel of a dying dichotomy; the rural/urban dichotomy. King does not hate the intelligentsia necessarily because of their haughtiness. He hates that class of beings because the intelligentsia is urban and urbane. The family farm is a dead issue in America because of that intelligentsia as well as liberals.

Besides the Native American population which the Midwest had managed to hide on reservations for the most part, there were no minorities around rural Iowa and Minnesota when we were growing up.  But Hispanics as well as Vietnamese showed up in this neck of the woods over the years.. Corporations certainly could use seasonal workers up this way.

The point I am attempting to make is that a way of life that lasted well over 100 years died; it just flat out died. And for some who were a part of this inbred ethos, a lot of anger ensured.

Blacks and Hispanics and Vietnamese and Liberated Women....these subcultures represented the forces of change and the destruction of the small farm culture; kind of a post hoc ergo propter hoc line of reasoning.

Deep down, people like King wish to punish those people, those groups, those coalitions responsible for destroying their heritage.  As DeMint and Perry and Allen as well as countless others from the old Confederacy realize that they can dip deep down into the collective unconscious of their constituents and feign to refight the Civil War; King and others can play upon some deep seated resentments felt by some Northerners.

Make no mistake about it, Steve King is real. He feels the hate he spews out. He even believes in more than half of what he is talking about. He might be aiding and abetting the real enemy of the small farmer and the small farm ethos-- which is the corporation, but if it hurts...I mean really hurts the urban and the urbane among us; it's all been worth it.

So here are just a few examples of the King of Iowa kicking the urban and the urbane right in the balls:

King was the sole, the only vote against endorsing a meatless resolution praising the slaves who rebuilt the Capitol Building in D.C.

Gay marriage represents socialist thinking.

Hate crime legislation is somehow related to outward protection of sexual deviants.

Steve King (R-Iowa) says he agrees with Texas Republican Congressman Joe Barton's recent use of the term "shakedown" to describe the Obama administration's actions to hold BP accountable in the wake of the massive oil spill continuing to plague the Gulf Coast.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/23/steve-king-the-year-in-cr_n_622666.html

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) called Monday for Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, to appear as the Republican witness in a House subcommittee hearing on the circumstances of her successful battle for asylum.

The King of Iowa is as sure as rush Limbaugh is that Obama is a racist and so is that Black AG.

King would like to see a full 'round-up of the browns'. He is all in favor of racial profiling. 

Representative King is a full-fledged prick and a ding dong for sure.

Now in Minnesota we have our own ho-hos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFDF1Gjh_Q&feature=related

Fellow bonkersauce all-star Michele Bachmann has vowed that she will not run for president unless called to do so by the Almighty, but she nevertheless sees a presidential run in King's future, saying that she "would encourage him to consider any position for higher office." 

I see no reason to do some list on the foibles of Michele Bachmann because I have done it several times and I am...just to tired to get into it here.

The contrast between Michele and King is that Michele is not a believer like King.

You see King rarely 'walks back' from his statements. King is more of a 'fuck you and the horse you came in on' kind of guy.

Michele will tell Chris Matthews that she thinks the media should do an in depth investigation in order to find the traitors in Congress--mainly the liberals. Then she will say she did not say that. Then after being shown the clip she will turn her head. Then she will say that her words were taken out of context.

Michelle will say that she is against the BP 20 billion dollar fund and then say that her words were taken out of context and that she, of course, wishes to see BP pay for all damage that is has done.

Michele will say that the 'birthers' have a point and then say that she does not personally question our President's nationality.

She can walk back. She is like Palin in that she does not believe in anything except her own success and her own income opportunities.

Bachmann is a whore in the truest sense of the word.  Her husband may have plead to the crowds that they must make sure that nobody f*&^ks his wife, but what he means to say is that the crowd should make sure that his wife is not f*&cked by the wrong person or persons.

That is why Bachmann is the ho ho to King's ding dong.

Pawlenty is nothing but a whore. I mean he started off as a Democrat and lied and cheated his way into the GOP. Pawlenty never believed in anything either. He did an HW a few years ago and asked his constituents to read his lips. No new taxes was his mantra. So every single license or permit or duty in the state of Minnesota went up five or ten fold.

But a new type of politician has crept into this once liberal/blue state. And this new character is not exactly a ho ho but a real Twinkie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmbelzVP0x4

Minnesota state Rep. Tom Emmer, the presumptive Republican nominee for governor, has further expounded on his theories of nullification, declaring that states have the power under the Constitution to undo federal legislation.

There's one problem that Emmer and other nullifiers -- or to use a modern term from the blogosphere, "Tenthers," after the Tenth Amendment -- would face: State nullification of federal laws has consistently been found to be unconstitutional throughout this country's history.

MinnPost asked Emmer about his support for a proposed state constitutional amendment that would presumptively nullify all federal laws in the state of Minnesota, declaring that they only take effect if the governor and two-thirds of each House of the Minnesota legislature were to sign off.

Interestingly, Emmer minimized his role in that proposal, saying that he was only a co-sponsor. Instead he pointed to a different proposal, of which he is the chief author, which would provide an alternative avenue for the state to reject federal laws.

Under Emmer's proposal, no federal mandate upon the state would be honored by Minnesota unless the governor, Speaker of the state House and state Senate Majority L-.1 eader were to issue determinations that the federal government has the power to legislate in that area. If any of those three officials were to determine that the federal government does not have the relevant power, the mandate could not take effect unless the legislature passed a law specifically applying it.

MinnPost pointed out to Emmer that this idea runs afoul of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which established that federal laws are the "supreme Law of the Land" to which states are bound. It was only noted that Emmer's method skips the traditionally accepted manner for states to challenge a federal law, to file a lawsuit and adjudicate the matter in the courts. Emmer responded that this is the "preferred mechanism by some. That is usually federal-leaning constitutionalists." But he said the states shouldn't wait for courts to determine the scope of the federal government's authority.

talkingpointsmemo.com/

Until I read this article, I had never heard of Emmer. I had never heard of this attempt to amend our State Constitution.

I despise Steve King and everything he stands for. But I understand Steve King.

Bachmann and Pawlenty and this Emmer are beyond my understanding.