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The Bastards of the 2018 Midterm Election

Behind the Bastards

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Steve King and the Confederacy

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King has a Confederate flag on his desk. He's also claimed that dreamers who came here as children have calves the size of quote cantaloupes because each of them carries 75 pounds of marijuana into the country with him across the border. In 2016, he filed an amendment to block attempts to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. At least he's doing something useful with his time in office.

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