Joni Ernst has jumped into Iowa politics with a bang-up
commercial which has pushed her to the front of the pack of Republicans vying
for the nomination to replace, if elected, the retiring Tom Harkin in the U.S. Senate … see: Washington Post Story. She claims in this “break-through” television ad that she grew up on a Iowa farm
castrating hogs and so she will know how to “cut the pork” in Washington.
I must confess that she is a compelling candidate just on
the basis of her chutzpah, great smile and her vow for fiscal austerity.
However, I too have spent some time on a farm as a youth … and, as I recall,
the castration process for hogs did not involve any cutting. The way that it
was done in Pennsylvania was to place a very strong, tight rubber band around a
shoat’s scrotum which cut off the blood supply. After a few weeks this piglet’s testicles
turned black, dried up, and fell off.
Nice and neat … and bloodless.
So perhaps, if Ms. Ernst is nominated and elected, she might
take a goodly supply of strong rubber bands with her to Capitol Hill. Nah! Most males at that venue are eunuchs
anyway.
