Do you know Joni Ernst?  She's the new "Tea Party" senator from Iowa.  With her mannish hairdo and her photo-ops riding a motorcycle, she was supposed to be a cultural connection between "modern" quasi-masculine women and conservatism. It hasn't quite worked out that way.  She is the head of a Senate "working group" that is working on legislation to defund Planned Parenthood.  Ernst is outraged by the reports of PP selling baby organs.  The only problem is that the legislations she has been working on has no chance of becoming law, and when she did have a chance to defund Planned Parenthood on Sunday, for real, she was silent. This legislation that Ernst and others are working on may pass the Senate, but there is no guarantee that it will ever be taken up by the House.  That's because it's not attached to a must-pass piece of spending legislation.  Because of that, the House may never take it up,...(Read Full Post)