And the lies begin…………………

………….. to add up. Until the Dems actually took power, Thursday, we couldn’t actually say that they had actually broken any campaign promises.

Last Thursday, however, it all became reality. With the reality, came the first snowflake in what I predict will be a blizzard of lies.

After years of complaining about the House lax work schedule and a campaign promise to make a five day session routine for the House, when confronted with the terrifying proposition of actually keeping their word and work those five days, the Democrats did what Democrats do, and backtracked, preferring the old four day week. Wow, that’s quicker than Clinton breaking his no tax pledge. Further proof that these people will actuall say anything to get elected.

Democrats 1 Truth 0

What you see..............

.............. is not always what you get. Iowa currently has an unemployment rate of 3.5%, meaning there is virtually no systemic and long term unemployment in Iowa. Yet, Iowa is not prosperous. Our economy and population are shrinking (on a relative basis). Most of Iowa’s counties face nearly catastrophic social, demographic and economic decline. After eight years of Gov. Vilsack driving the economic train, today’s Des Moines Register provides a perfect example of the train wreck in progress.

Here’s a thought. With 3.5% unemployment, maybe the limit on job creation is the lack of people to fill the jobs. Say a multi-national company wanted to build a large industrial facility in Mt. Pleasant? Where would the prospective employer find the people to till the jobs?

It also can’t be a question of needing more “job training”. More job training is just liberal code for more CIETCs. Iowa needs indigenous employers, who have a long term investment in our state wide community. We have the chance, the biotech future is here.

We already have a well educated population, low crime, clean skies, good parks and good infrastructure. We are going to lose all of those things because our tax and regulatory policies, coupled with a level of government that is already approximately six times our pro rata share of the national population, have combined to create the perfect vortex of failure, the poverty of liberalism. We see the vortex effect all over Europe. Pursuit of the elimination of want creates a need for government services, causing an increase in taxes which results in lower real wages and a greater need for government assistance.

Iowa has become one of the most hostile business climates in the United States. Our corporate income tax and property tax burden are pretty much bottom five for businesses. Our economy is shrinking at a time when we enjoy almost unsustainably low unemployment. We are falling farther and farther behind the rest of the country, which continues to enjoy historic prosperity. Even as the failure of central economic direction becomes undeniable, here come the Democrats, with nothing to act as brake between Iowa and genuine socialism. I'm sure glad that liberals can do for us what they've already done to most of Europe.

A lesson from Lincoln …………….

………….. is always a good thing for a war time President. So if you think that winning in Iraq is and ought to be our objective you have to welcome the dramatic change in Team America. Hopefully George W. has better luck than Abe Lincoln.

Unfortunately, most Americans really know far too little about history. That’s what makes the public so easily mislead by liberals. Here’s a little historical perspective for my loyal readers. The central front in the American Civil War was the “Eastern Front” also known as the “Virginia Front”.

In the East, President Lincoln fired Maj. General Irwin McDowell-who lost the first Battle of Bull Run and took 1, 900 casualties and hired Maj. Gen. George McClellan who fought 7 battles to stalemate with another 20,000 casualties. McClellan was replaced with Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, who lost the Second Battle of Bull Run and another 16,000 casualties before McClellan was recalled, to again fight to stalemate at Antietam, with 12,400 more casualties. Lincoln then decided to break the stalemate with a more combative general and promoted Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who promptly lost the Battle of Fredericksburg with another 12,600 casualties.

Not surprisingly, Burnside didn’t get a second chance since that particular loss was all in one day. In came Maj. Gen. “Fightin’ Joe Hooker, who lost his first fight at Chancellorsville three months later, with 16,700 Federal casualties. Hooker also only got only one shot at army command and was replaced with Maj. Gen. George Meade, who finally won a big one at Gettysburg, at the cost of 23,000 more casualties. At that point the Civil War was at around the half way mark.

Add this historic context, prior to the Civil War Americans had never seen battles with more than a few hundred casualties. The Civil War hit the American psyche like Armageddon. So when you think about Lincoln going into the second half of the war do you think gross incompetent? Do think the war was unwinnable? Just not worth it?

If you don’t why then does the liberal template just assume that Iraq is unwinnable and not worth it? If you are an anti-war liberal, step up and engage in some intelligent debate in light of real history. Believe me, preservation of the United States was not a popular ideology in 1863 Mississippi.

By the way, history wasn’t finished. Finally, Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant came east and, 2 years and about 69,000 casualties later, the United States was preserved. I’m glad Joe Biden, John Edwards and Nancy Pelosi weren’t in charge of U.S. foreign policy in July 1863.

Just in case …………………

Part 1

……………. you are asked to provide an example of liberal media bias, here’s a good one. The following is a selection from the New York Times’ official obituary of Gerald R. Ford.

“Ronald Reagan's state funeral in 2004 was the first since Lyndon B. Johnson died in 1973. With Ford’s death, there are now just three living former presidents: Jimmy Carter, 82, who succeeded Ford; George H.W. Bush, 82, father of the current president who served 1989-93; and Bill Clinton, 60, who served two terms before George W. Bush was inaugurated following the disputed 2000 election and a 5-4 Supreme Court decision decision in his favor.”

Working a political attack into an obituary is quite a feat. In light of examples like this, can one seriously argue that the liberal education and media establishments are ever silent? In reality, the liberal establishment is constantly working an increasingly dangerous angle in an effort to frame the public debate. While it is difficult for the average Republican to conceive of a Presidential obituary as an opportunity to undermine a political enemy such thoughts come naturally to an institution that now exists only as a propaganda device for the far left.

Part 2

………………… the new Democrat majority is laying the groundwork for even more tax increases. It looks like Iowa road funds are running out of money and where else would the Democrats turn but you, the Iowa taxpayer?

Good to know that they are looking toward good government as a solution to the State’s fiscal problems.