Out on the Weekend

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)

It is with a heavy heart that I learned that my old pal, Senator Joni Ernst, has decided to leave the U.S. Senate when her current term expires, probably because her political viability already did when she answered a question back in May at a town hall about the proposed Medicaid cuts with the immortal, "Well, we all are going to die." Oh, Joni, we hardly knew ye. From CNN:

She was first elected in 2014 on a pledge to cut government spending with her signature slogan: “Make ‘em squeal.” As the Republican Party has evolved under President Donald Trump, Ernst has often struggled to strike a balance between GOP voters identifying with Trump’s “Make America Great

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