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11 months ago
in Leach for VP? on The Iowa Independent
I would love for McCain to pick that sanctimonious, duplicitous, dishonest weasel. The Democrats hate him, the Republicans don't like him much, (which is how the Democrats felt about him in 2000), and he would be constantly telling McCain what to do in front of the cameras, making McCain look like he needs a minder. Plus there's that face, which seems far more sensitive to gravity than most basset hounds. Yeah, that would really be the ticket that screams change you can believe in.
11 months ago
in King: Marriage debate will mobilize Iowans for GOP on The Iowa Independent
Well, I don't know.
I'm paying more than $4 a gallon for gas.
What I spend at the grocery store keeps rising like a hot air balloon on a summer day.
I am one layoff away from losing health insurance and access to medical care.
Some of my neighbors still have sons and daughters in Iraq more than five years after the invasion at the cost of billions of dollars.
We don't dare get too uppity with the Russians over invading Georgia or with the Chinese over enabling genocide in the Sudan, because they are our bankers now, and if they call the loan we're in deep doo.
Come to think of it, the prospect of gay people kissing really is the most important issue we could talk about in this election. Thank heaven we have a congressman who understands that, and whose only legislative accomplishment is a bill underscoring the importance of Christmas to Christians.
I'm paying more than $4 a gallon for gas.
What I spend at the grocery store keeps rising like a hot air balloon on a summer day.
I am one layoff away from losing health insurance and access to medical care.
Some of my neighbors still have sons and daughters in Iraq more than five years after the invasion at the cost of billions of dollars.
We don't dare get too uppity with the Russians over invading Georgia or with the Chinese over enabling genocide in the Sudan, because they are our bankers now, and if they call the loan we're in deep doo.
Come to think of it, the prospect of gay people kissing really is the most important issue we could talk about in this election. Thank heaven we have a congressman who understands that, and whose only legislative accomplishment is a bill underscoring the importance of Christmas to Christians.
11 months ago
in Latham: Congressional Postville Visit Will Offer Firsthand Glimpse into National Immigration Debate on The Iowa Independent
"Despite the men attacking the issue from two different vantage points, both Latham and Gutierrez seem to agree that a human face needs to be put on the national immigration debate — and that the face the debate needs might very well be in Postville."
I am not clear on what Latham thinks about the immigration issue. He wants the "impact" to be understood, but does he condemn the tactics of the DHS, in Postville and elsewhere, and call for them to cease? How does he feel about the kangaroo court hearings engineered by DHS and the DOJ, as described in the New York Times and in the essay by a translator who was there? [See: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/14/...
Does he stand with the Bush administration and his nutjob colleague, Steve King, who has demagogued this issue relentlessly? Is he primarily concerned with the problems of the meatpackers? Or is this one of those rare Republicans who is equally concerned about the suffering of the Mexicans and Guatemalans who endured great risk and hardship to try to find work, only to be railroaded to jail by DHS, leaving their families to starve?
I am not clear on what Latham thinks about the immigration issue. He wants the "impact" to be understood, but does he condemn the tactics of the DHS, in Postville and elsewhere, and call for them to cease? How does he feel about the kangaroo court hearings engineered by DHS and the DOJ, as described in the New York Times and in the essay by a translator who was there? [See: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/14/...
Does he stand with the Bush administration and his nutjob colleague, Steve King, who has demagogued this issue relentlessly? Is he primarily concerned with the problems of the meatpackers? Or is this one of those rare Republicans who is equally concerned about the suffering of the Mexicans and Guatemalans who endured great risk and hardship to try to find work, only to be railroaded to jail by DHS, leaving their families to starve?
