Drove around my region with out-of-state family members this weekend, folks who rarely come to the flyover states. Driving through endless miles of fields, they asked, "Are these family farms." Those farms they were looking at were ethanol farms, the only issue that any republican in the state gives a fuck about. Cut education, services, roads, whatever. But keep the damn ethanol subsidy in place for the corporate farmers. They will fight passionately for those leeches while stuffing children into bigger and bigger classes.

There are many hardworking, salt of the earth farmers still doing their best to grow food here. Remarkable people who put up with all kinds of crap from people like Grassley and Ernst who happily spit all over "their" people as long as their contributions still come in.