Category Archives: Republican Obstruction

Corey Booker! Thanks For That Act Of Courage!

Posted on September 8, 2018 by

“Then Bring It”  We had the TV on in the background while we went about our business Thursday morning. We had the Stephanie Miller Show on Free Speech TV playing. Steph’s producer broke in with a short bulletin – Senator … Continue reading →

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Grassley’s Stolen SCOTUS Attacks Working Families

Posted on July 1, 2018 by

Editor’s note:  The following are two press releases concerning Senator Grassley and his unprecedented and still extremely controversial hijacking of the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland. http://www.WhyCourtsMatterIowa.org For Immediate Release: June 27, 2018 Contact: wcmia@whycourtsmatteriowa.org Des Moines, Iowa — Today the … Continue reading →

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Will An “A” From The NRA Be The New Scarlet Letter?

Posted on March 25, 2018 by

Last October following the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Gavin Aronson over at the iowainformer.com listed the contributions that Iowa senators and congress members got from the NRA. blogforiowa.com ran a story on this shortly after the Parkland shootings. But it certainly … Continue reading →

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Grassley Once Again Refuses To Do His Job

Posted on January 27, 2018 by

Claims Kushner “Spooked” so committee shot its chance to interview him I am not going to claim I know the details and nuances of laws and procedures for the investigative powers of congress. Like many, most of what I know … Continue reading →

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Grassley, Do Your Job!!!

Posted on January 13, 2018 by

It has been almost a full two years since Antonin Scalia died. At that time the Republican Party led by Mitch McConnell and ably aided by Iowa’s own Chuck Grassley went about the business of stealing a Supreme Court seat … Continue reading →

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Party Of Death?

Posted on October 7, 2017 by

Note: US House votes for budget that has deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare:    “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. As quickly as the news spread about the massacre in Las Vegas … Continue reading →

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SCOTUS To Hear Case Designed To Gut Unions

Posted on October 1, 2017 by

Grassley’s Obstruction About To Pay Huge Returns For The Wealthy Thursday morning the Supreme Court agreed to hear Janus v. AFSCME  The SCOTUS has once more agreed to hear a case designed to gut public unions. In 2016 an 8 … Continue reading →

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Repairing What Republicans Break May Be Impossible

Posted on March 18, 2017 by

“Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Til it’s gone They pave paradise and put up a parking lot” Joni Mitchell “Big Yellow Taxi” Who knows what people who voted Republican in the last … Continue reading →

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Young Recommends Trump Release Taxes, Then Votes Against It

Posted on March 5, 2017 by

Just in case you folks out in Iowa’s third district missed Rep. Young’s little bit of fancy political stepping:  Republican Rep. David Young ignited loud cheers from hundreds at an Iowa meeting last week when he said, “Donald Trump should … Continue reading →

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Will Republicans Hide Because Of Healthcare?

Posted on January 21, 2017 by

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers drowned out by chants of “Save Our Healthcare” at MLK Day Rally Remember last year shortly after Antonin Scalia died and Chuck Grassley reinterpreted the constitution to read that he, as chair of the Judiciary Committee, … Continue reading →

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