Republican candidates have extended their lead over Democrats to seven points, their biggest lead since early September, in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate [...]
Former Des Moines school board member Jonathan Narcisse criticized Gov. Chet Culver and the Republicans hoping to unseat him in 2010, but remained coy about whether he will challenge the governor in a Democratic primary.
Jonathan Narcisse
Narcisse was speaking to Dave Price, reporter for Des Moines [...]
State Sen. Brad Zaun, an Urbandale Republican, filed paperwork today with the Federal Elections Commission to seek the U.S. House Seat in Iowa’s 3rd District.
Zaun is the third Republican to take steps toward mounting a potential challenge to Leonard Boswell, a seven-term Des Moines Democrat.
Zaun is a former Urbandale mayor [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Chuck Grassley said today that he’s asked for information from the Joint Committee on Taxation about which taxpayers would be impacted by the Medicare payroll tax increase in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009.
“If Democratic leaders want to increase [...]
At least two Iowans will be dining at the White House tonight as Pres. Barack Obama celebrates the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with his administration’s first state dinner.
Iowa Sen. Swati Dandekar, a Democrat from Marion, and her husband, Arvind, a prominent local businessman, traveled to Washington, D.C. [...]
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is calling foul on Democrat Roxanne Conlin, saying she is trying to have it both ways on the issue of taking donations from lobbyists and political action committees.
Conlin has repeatedly said she will not accept donations from lobbyists or PACs, and Tuesday called on the [...]
Paul Begala, a political analyst and commentator on CNN, and Tucker Carlson, a contributor to Fox News, will be the featured speakers at the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s annual dinner Jan. 21, providing “A View from the Left and Right,” the group said Tuesday.
The business group says Begala, a Democratic [...]
One of three Democrats vying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on the veteran lawmaker to decline all contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees (PACs).
Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin said in an e-mail to Grassley that the senior senator has accepted millions from “the [...]
Cedar Rapids residents who live in Iowa House District 33 have an opportunity today to vote in a special election. Candidates are: Coralville Courier’s Group2012 (who is probably also commenter Liberal Shark), one of the Thayer boys, offers somebody else’s work (one sample link, this is circulating all over the right-o-sphere) as his own without citation.
Of course, NO IT IS THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE THE LIARS, but the problem [...]
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Barack Obama is a lawyer Michelle Obama is a lawyer Hillary Clinton is a lawyer Bill Clinton is a lawyer John Edwards is a lawyer Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyerJust 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that [...]
The Republicans were ready to ban the filibuster after we tried to block the most extreme of Bush’s judicial nominations.
Since the Democrats regained control of the Senate, Republicans have abused the filibuster rule like never before. Until 1970, no session of Congress had more than ten votes on [...]
This has to break some kind of record for number of insanely wrong and empty-headed statements in a row.
Republicans are for good things! Democrats for bad things!
Do we really deserve to be the most powerful country in the world at this rate? Not if these people are calling the shots. [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad’s endorsement of Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., in 2000 helped him win his seat and eventually allowed him to join fellow Democrats in moving their health care reform bill forward, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bob Vander Plaats said Monday.
“Ben Nelson gave Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid [...]
Former Des Moines School Board member Jonathan Narcisse declined to say today if he will run for governor, clearly leaving the door open for a run.
Narcisse, a Democrat, was asked the question in regard to a new series of public debates he has scheduled with Christopher [...]
Republican candidate for governor Bob Vander Plaats said today former Gov. Terry Branstad’s support of a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate helped pave the way for health care legislation that advanced in Congress Saturday.
Vander Plaats faulted Branstad, a Republican also running for governor, for endorsing and helping raise money for [...]
Iowa estimated to recover millions now spent on care for uninsured
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released new state-by-state projections of the impacts of passage or failure of the Democrats’ sweeping health care reform package.
According to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the projections demonstrate that “the health care [...]
Liberal blog Bleeding Heartland reports that former Butler County Democratic Party Chairman Bill Maske has announced he will challenge Fourth Distict U.S. Rep. Tom Latham, R-Ames, in 2010.
Maske, who has launched a Web site, is a veteran school administrator with no previous electoral experience.
The Fourth District Democratic Central [...]
For months, Democrats nationwide have criticized Republicans for being the party of “no.” In his speech in Des Moines on Saturday night, Vice President Joe Biden continued that line of attack when he said, “I know what Republicans are against, but I honestly don’t know what they [...]
The perceived wariness of a few U.S. Senate moderate Democrats on moving forward the health reform bill cobbled together by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dissipated yesterday. All 58 Democrats and the two independents who typically vote with the majority party Dems held together and passed the bill (with an [...]
