Category Archives: Republican hypocrisy

Republicans Vote To Defund Planned Parenthood

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Dave Bradley

They Take a Stand Opposed By 75% of Iowa Iowa House Republicans again this year inserted an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood from any state funding. This is a truly unpopular issue with Iowans. As Beth Wessel-Kroeschell is quoted in … Continue reading →

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Chuck, Can We Have A Refund?

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Dave Bradley

We hired you to do a job. You refuse to do it. The law says we can’t fire you until November. You haven’t done your job for two years. That’s $350,000 plus the cost of your staff that you should … Continue reading →

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It’s April 16th. Has A Medical Marijuana Bill Passed Yet?

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Dave Bradley

Two weeks ago I was treated to a short presentation by Shelly Van Winkle at the legislative forum in Muscatine. Ms. Van Winkle (is there any title that indicates that a person is an RN?) is a registered nurse and … Continue reading →

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Smoking Grassley Out

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Dave Bradley

Pretty sad when a United States Senator has to skulk around his own state ashamed to be seen by the general public. Chuck Grassley has spent his Easter recess from his day job pretending to meet with citizens of Iowa. … Continue reading →

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When Your Opponent Is Drowning Throw Him An Anvil

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Dave Bradley

That was some sage political advice from James Carville Chuck Grassley is one of the national leaders of the Republican Party. As a member of leadership Grassley helped come up with the current insane Republican policy to not even hold … Continue reading →

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“Republicans Love Government”

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Dave Bradley

We spend extra money just to have a chance to listen to John Fugelsang on his Sirius radio show. The few radio terrestrial outlets for those of us on the left side of the aisles are in Minneapolis and Chicago. … Continue reading →

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Iowa, You Can Fire Chuck Grassley!

Posted on February 27, 2016 by Dave Bradley

Yes you can. Grassley says no to doing the work assigned him by the constitution. He gets paid a hell of a lot of money for that. He has a big staff, a huge office plus offices around the state … Continue reading →

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Scalia: Hardly Original, Very Right Wing

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Dave Bradley

A week ago on the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, the corporate media began spewing the expected epitaphs. “Originalist”, “scholar”, “intellectual” thus once again painting the picture for the American viewer that Scalia was a Justice who was a … Continue reading →

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Embarrassed To Be A Republican Yet?

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Tuning in to the Benghazi “hearing” sporadically yesterday and listening to the updates on radio one thought that kept running through my mind is “man, am I glad i am not a Republican.” A derivation of that thought was “if … Continue reading →

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Proposed Amendments To The Continuing Resolution

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Teabaggers dreams were quashed Wednesday afternoon when the US House passed the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for another 2 months. The bill was described as a “clean” bill – that is it had no amendments. That was … Continue reading →

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