Our Terrifying New Congress: Meet 5 Tea Party Extremists Taking Office this Month

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/our-terrifying-new-congress-meet-5-tea-party-extremists-taking-office-month



Come next week, a few of Congress’ most notorious Tea Partyers will no longer be in office. Rep. Paul Broun, a Georgia Republican who once declared evolution and the Big Bang Theory “lies straight from the pit of hell,” lost a U.S. Senate primary this year and won’t be returning to the House. Neither will Michele Bachmann, who needs no introduction.

But the departure of such inflammatory conservatives hardly means that the 114th Congress will be a more sober one. Indeed, the crop of Republicans taking power next month is even further to the right than the current House GOP conference. The newly Republican Senate, too, will feature more than its fair share of ultraconservative hard-liners. Today, Salon looks at five of the most extreme Republicans taking power in Washington this month.

Joni Ernst

What do you call someone who supports arresting federal officials for implementing healthcare reform, champions “personhood” legislation that would ban abortion and some forms of birth control, believes there’s a secret elite plot to steal farmers’ land, keeps a gun as protection against “the government,” and thinks President Obama is a “dictator“?

You call her “Senator” — as in soon-to-be-Sen. Joni Ernst, the Iowa state lawmaker who defeated congressman Bruce Braley in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. Polls indicated that most Iowans agreed with Braley’s positions on the issues, but in a midterm election that largely focused on the candidates’ personalities — Ernst is charismatic, Braley most definitely is not — Ernst secured six years in the U.S. Senate.

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1. I would rather NOT meet them. Shame on the people who elected them.

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2. Glenn Grothman--I have met him. uga uga.

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3. Braley ran an awful campaign

I don't know if he had the feeling that he was an heir apparent or what. Six years of Joni Ernst - I just have to shutter. Hopefully we can flip the other Senate seat in two years.

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4. The people of Iowa who said in a poll that Ernst was just right on the issues are going to see

What a nut she really is.The republicans did a good job last election portraying there nuts are moderate.And the media was also a part in it