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Friday, March 06, 2009
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Iowa Senate Republicans put a thumb in the eye of the just say no lie.
Earlier today Iowa Senate Republicans, under the leadership of Senator Paul McKinley (R-SD36) presented the Republican pro-job and pro-growth economic alternative to the tax and union payoff anti-jobs Labor/Socialist/Democrat agenda.
The plan outline is available through the Senate Republican website, linked here so we don’t need to repeat the entire text. Upon examination it is clear that the Republican alternative is based on the adaptation of proven free market principles adapted to the unique needs of 21st Century Iowa.
The L/S/D alternative is, of course, more unions, higher union wages, less work from unions and mandatory membership in unions. The L/S/D leadership does not even really hide its commitment to the labor agenda. After all, they are the “labor”/socialist/Democrats.
With the publication of today's plan, the Senate Republicans have joined our Iowa House caucus and have presented a very clear bright line alternative to the labor oligarchy and socialist nanny state the Gronstal/Murphy/McCarthy troika is imposing on Iowa. Ever since it became apparent that the L/S/D agenda was wildly off the left edge of reality and so ridiculous that it couldn’t stand on its own, Democrats quickly returned to the tactics of their minority days: lie about us to distort the public’s perception of reality. The Democrat one note has been to label us the “party of no”, lacking solutions to the problems of real Iowans notwithstanding the existence of a very clear conservative alternative to the socialist nanny state envisioned by the radical L/S/D leadership.
Republicans on both sides of the Golden Dome have provided very clear alternatives, which utterly belies the canard that we are the party without solutions. Now our challenge is to shift the conversation to the party of freedom and prosperity.
Yes, actually we can.
The plan outline is available through the Senate Republican website, linked here so we don’t need to repeat the entire text. Upon examination it is clear that the Republican alternative is based on the adaptation of proven free market principles adapted to the unique needs of 21st Century Iowa.
The L/S/D alternative is, of course, more unions, higher union wages, less work from unions and mandatory membership in unions. The L/S/D leadership does not even really hide its commitment to the labor agenda. After all, they are the “labor”/socialist/Democrats.
With the publication of today's plan, the Senate Republicans have joined our Iowa House caucus and have presented a very clear bright line alternative to the labor oligarchy and socialist nanny state the Gronstal/Murphy/McCarthy troika is imposing on Iowa. Ever since it became apparent that the L/S/D agenda was wildly off the left edge of reality and so ridiculous that it couldn’t stand on its own, Democrats quickly returned to the tactics of their minority days: lie about us to distort the public’s perception of reality. The Democrat one note has been to label us the “party of no”, lacking solutions to the problems of real Iowans notwithstanding the existence of a very clear conservative alternative to the socialist nanny state envisioned by the radical L/S/D leadership.Republicans on both sides of the Golden Dome have provided very clear alternatives, which utterly belies the canard that we are the party without solutions. Now our challenge is to shift the conversation to the party of freedom and prosperity.
Yes, actually we can.
Monday, March 02, 2009
The Beans Sprout: Timmaahh!
Our friend Tim Albrecht has launched a new internet venture: The Bean Walker. Tim’s format is going to be news by Republicans for Republicans. Great concept.
Timmy has been an outstanding communications director everywhere he has worked. There is every reason to believe that The Bean Walker is going to be a success. Hopefully Tim will take a nice sharp rouging hoe to the toxic waste flora that passes for Labor/Socialist/Democrat thought.
We had the chance to attend the launch party tonight. Great event! It was especially good to see so many of our GOP legislators with a new bounce in their step. It has been a long time since we fought hard for principle and won. The principled victory obviously sits well with our guys and gals; Linda Upmeyer was positively beaming and looked every bit the confident legislative leader. As Hayden Fry was heard to say on occasion, “there is no substitute for victory”.
It was also good to see such a high percentage of Republican women. The loudest cheer (while we were in attendance anyway) came when the Purse girls were announced. If we can develop a women talking to women campaign we should be able to persuade enough independent and more apathetic Democrat women as to the self-defeating nature of their support for the L/S/D agenda. Those crucial votes will not come our way unless we persuade those independent and apathetic women that we are right on the things that matter and not merely attempt to pander. If we take the time to engage in that persuasion we might swing some close legislative races, and maybe the state wide races, in 2010.
Congratulations Timmaahh!
Timmy has been an outstanding communications director everywhere he has worked. There is every reason to believe that The Bean Walker is going to be a success. Hopefully Tim will take a nice sharp rouging hoe to the toxic waste flora that passes for Labor/Socialist/Democrat thought.
We had the chance to attend the launch party tonight. Great event! It was especially good to see so many of our GOP legislators with a new bounce in their step. It has been a long time since we fought hard for principle and won. The principled victory obviously sits well with our guys and gals; Linda Upmeyer was positively beaming and looked every bit the confident legislative leader. As Hayden Fry was heard to say on occasion, “there is no substitute for victory”.
It was also good to see such a high percentage of Republican women. The loudest cheer (while we were in attendance anyway) came when the Purse girls were announced. If we can develop a women talking to women campaign we should be able to persuade enough independent and more apathetic Democrat women as to the self-defeating nature of their support for the L/S/D agenda. Those crucial votes will not come our way unless we persuade those independent and apathetic women that we are right on the things that matter and not merely attempt to pander. If we take the time to engage in that persuasion we might swing some close legislative races, and maybe the state wide races, in 2010.
Congratulations Timmaahh!
Sunday, March 01, 2009
David Vaudt shows courage and principle while Kiernan sounds their one flat note.
Republican Auditor took a great first step in drawing the distinction between Democrat and Republican governance late week. Auditor Vaudt publically indicated that he favors rejection of at least some of the federal money that the state could obtain from the first massive Obama spending splurge.
Mr. Vaudt makes a lucid and mature point: as with most things the federal government labels free, much of the new Obama dollars come with very expensive long term and unfunded commitments for the states that take Obama dollars.
While we here at TRS believe that the state should decline any funds that impose any new requirements on Iowa, whether funded or not, no reasonable person could possibly advocate taking any short term federal money that imposes unsustainable long term costs on Iowa’s almost entirely broken economy. Mr. Vaudt advocates not only a sound principle of conservative government but also a sound principle of basic management.
Rather than embrace the generally accepted principles of long term accounting and management Iowa Democrat Party Chair Michael Kiernan took the opportunity to merely accuse Mr. Vaudt and all of we Republicans of intentional obstruction of economic recovery. Mr. Kiernan repeated the new L/S/D label for Republicans as the party of “no”. That hackneyed line is not an argument and will only work if we fail to respond.
On what assumptions do the Labor/Socialist/Democrats claim that the first round of Obamanomics will create or save 37,000 Iowa jobs? Iowa is already 45th in economic performance and 49th in business climate. How then would the creation of long term financial obligations that Iowa’s existing tax base cannot support build a sustainable Iowa economy that would actually produce those 37,000 jobs? Are the Obama dollars merely a gimmick, designed only to increase dependency on government?
Perhaps Mr. Kiernan needs to justify the Labor/Socialist/Democrat refusal to engage in recognition of the most obvious of facts and disregard the most basic of business and accounting principles. In the absence of any rational explanation perhaps such unreasonable behavior from otherwise intelligent seeming people is attributable to the L/S/D commitment to ever greater government as a matter of religious faith that passes all understanding.
Mr. Kiernan, Iowans deserve to know. Mr. Vaudt, thanks for the providing the reality check.
Mr. Vaudt makes a lucid and mature point: as with most things the federal government labels free, much of the new Obama dollars come with very expensive long term and unfunded commitments for the states that take Obama dollars.
While we here at TRS believe that the state should decline any funds that impose any new requirements on Iowa, whether funded or not, no reasonable person could possibly advocate taking any short term federal money that imposes unsustainable long term costs on Iowa’s almost entirely broken economy. Mr. Vaudt advocates not only a sound principle of conservative government but also a sound principle of basic management.
Rather than embrace the generally accepted principles of long term accounting and management Iowa Democrat Party Chair Michael Kiernan took the opportunity to merely accuse Mr. Vaudt and all of we Republicans of intentional obstruction of economic recovery. Mr. Kiernan repeated the new L/S/D label for Republicans as the party of “no”. That hackneyed line is not an argument and will only work if we fail to respond.
On what assumptions do the Labor/Socialist/Democrats claim that the first round of Obamanomics will create or save 37,000 Iowa jobs? Iowa is already 45th in economic performance and 49th in business climate. How then would the creation of long term financial obligations that Iowa’s existing tax base cannot support build a sustainable Iowa economy that would actually produce those 37,000 jobs? Are the Obama dollars merely a gimmick, designed only to increase dependency on government?
Perhaps Mr. Kiernan needs to justify the Labor/Socialist/Democrat refusal to engage in recognition of the most obvious of facts and disregard the most basic of business and accounting principles. In the absence of any rational explanation perhaps such unreasonable behavior from otherwise intelligent seeming people is attributable to the L/S/D commitment to ever greater government as a matter of religious faith that passes all understanding.
Mr. Kiernan, Iowans deserve to know. Mr. Vaudt, thanks for the providing the reality check.
Garbage In/Garbage Out-Gov. Culver unwittingly indicts his socialist creed.
This week saw the Labor/Socialist/Democrat leadership continue their challenging task of sensibly arguing the case for the LSD agenda. As a result the public was again treated to a cornucopia of cranky, silly and downright false public discourse from the LSD leadership.
This week’s recognition had some serious contender. You’ve got to hand to President Obama; he gave it the old Harvard try. After all, calling a financial responsibility summit only days after signing the Omnibus Spending Bill in the name of “stimulus” and days before submitting a budget replete with tax increases (defining tax as anything the government forces you to pay), almost 10, 000 earmarks, another trillion dollars in debt and an expansion of the counterproductive welfare and nanny state well beyond the most megalomaniacal visions that ever chased LBJ around the White House reaches for the heights of deception and distortion. However one chooses to describe the Obama agenda, fiscally responsible cannot be among the adjectives.
President Obama’s talk about fiscal responsibility is good propaganda: based on historical falsehoods; does not withstand any logic based critical analysis; divides the population along class lines and vilifies all who air inconvenient truths about the propaganda. But right here in Iowa we had the liberals raise an even worse argument.
Last Thursday Governor Culver actually indicted the whole concept of liberal big government when he sought to pander to the public outrage over the Atalissa slave labor scandal. “Amid a growing national scandal involving Iowa's failure to protect dozens of mentally retarded workers, [Iowa] Governor Chet Culver declared … that ‘every level of government bureaucracy failed these men’ over the past 30 years”.
Over the last ten years of Democrat control Iowa government has grown exponentially. We have more government doing more things for more people than at any time in state history. Yet with all that government, including several specific complaints, for more than ten years the “compassionate” the Labor/Socialist/Democrat state government failed to prevent a Texas company from operating a turkey plant in Iowa that housed its workforce, composed almost entirely of mentally retarded men who were paid something like fifty cents an hour, in a 100 year old building that was just recently closed by the fire marshal. We have had Democrat Attorneys General for the last thirty years.
How could the Governor have lost the irony? Even as the Labor/Socialist/Democrats are imposing ever more government on the American people a LSD governor admits the complete failure of government to, once again, perform a basic existing function of that state government; and failed over a long period of time so it cannot be called a random oversight. Perhaps before government further infects the vital organs of the body politic with its viral incompetence it should begin performing government’s core function with a higher level of competence and efficiency.
Why should any rational voter think government is ever the solution to new problems when it cannot solve the problems it is already trying to solve? Expecting Labor/Socialist/Democrat policies to actually solve problems is no more realistic than a 17th Century physician prescribing blood letting as a cure for pneumonia-a wrong remedy that exacerbates the illness.
This week’s recognition had some serious contender. You’ve got to hand to President Obama; he gave it the old Harvard try. After all, calling a financial responsibility summit only days after signing the Omnibus Spending Bill in the name of “stimulus” and days before submitting a budget replete with tax increases (defining tax as anything the government forces you to pay), almost 10, 000 earmarks, another trillion dollars in debt and an expansion of the counterproductive welfare and nanny state well beyond the most megalomaniacal visions that ever chased LBJ around the White House reaches for the heights of deception and distortion. However one chooses to describe the Obama agenda, fiscally responsible cannot be among the adjectives.
President Obama’s talk about fiscal responsibility is good propaganda: based on historical falsehoods; does not withstand any logic based critical analysis; divides the population along class lines and vilifies all who air inconvenient truths about the propaganda. But right here in Iowa we had the liberals raise an even worse argument.
Last Thursday Governor Culver actually indicted the whole concept of liberal big government when he sought to pander to the public outrage over the Atalissa slave labor scandal. “Amid a growing national scandal involving Iowa's failure to protect dozens of mentally retarded workers, [Iowa] Governor Chet Culver declared … that ‘every level of government bureaucracy failed these men’ over the past 30 years”.
Over the last ten years of Democrat control Iowa government has grown exponentially. We have more government doing more things for more people than at any time in state history. Yet with all that government, including several specific complaints, for more than ten years the “compassionate” the Labor/Socialist/Democrat state government failed to prevent a Texas company from operating a turkey plant in Iowa that housed its workforce, composed almost entirely of mentally retarded men who were paid something like fifty cents an hour, in a 100 year old building that was just recently closed by the fire marshal. We have had Democrat Attorneys General for the last thirty years.
How could the Governor have lost the irony? Even as the Labor/Socialist/Democrats are imposing ever more government on the American people a LSD governor admits the complete failure of government to, once again, perform a basic existing function of that state government; and failed over a long period of time so it cannot be called a random oversight. Perhaps before government further infects the vital organs of the body politic with its viral incompetence it should begin performing government’s core function with a higher level of competence and efficiency.
Why should any rational voter think government is ever the solution to new problems when it cannot solve the problems it is already trying to solve? Expecting Labor/Socialist/Democrat policies to actually solve problems is no more realistic than a 17th Century physician prescribing blood letting as a cure for pneumonia-a wrong remedy that exacerbates the illness.
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