Good riddance Goober

With apologies to George Lindsey!

It's the last full day for The Pickle to be the leader of a free Iowa.

I had the pleasure(?) of meeting The Pickle when he was just an unknown State Senator from Mount Pilot (oops Pleasant) and was running against Mark McCormick in the Dummycrat primary for Governor.

I was an Executive Vice President of a union local and he came to speak to our Executive Board.

He was the most negative candidate I have ever met, almost non-stop in disparaging his opponent.

The only reason The Pickle won the primary is that Mark McCormick's brother, Dick, was the CEO of US WEST/QWEST telephone company and the Communications Workers of America hated Dick. Mark received the wrath of the union vote, a majority of Dummycrat primary voters.

The Pickle reminds me a lot of Bill Clinton.

I'm not insinuating that he was getting a "hummer" from Sally Pederson.

I just believe he was a phony, did real well for his friends and thanks to a Republican legislature his ability to do long term damage to this state was minimal.

Most Iowans won't be able to tell you one thing he accomplished.

Even the Ragister can't objectively find his accomplishments, resorting to The Pickle's own self promotion.

If you want to read a good run down of The Pickle's legacy click on State 29.

I know Chris and I have laughed about never finding who "stole" his son's automobile from Terrace Hill.

Chris & I have both toured Terrace Hill, when the Branstad family resided there, and were even allowed into the security center in the basement.

There are WAY TOO MANY cameras for anyone not to see what was going on.

My theory was the dipstick was too drunk to put it in park, it explains why the keys were in it and nobody has ever been found.

In his, "I wanna be President State of the State", The Pickle said, "I have given it my all, and I have done my best".

To paraphrase James Ingram's 'Just Once'...Your best wasn't good enough!

Governor Vilsack was a big mistake.....President Vilsack would be even bigger!

The Sky Is Crying

Showing how arrogant the powers that be are, former Supreme Court justice Mark McCormick made an ass of himself (and the scientific community is united in that fact) at a forum discussing the issue of judicial retention.

McCormick said opponents of retaining the judges have turned “to the mob” rather than the rule of law.

As I've previously opined (The People's Court) it is Iowa Law, specifically section 602.1218 of the Iowa Code, that cites a litany of reasons ending with or any other just and good cause constitutes cause for removal.

McCormick then went pious on the public when he said, “It’s the common tactic of saying the sky is falling when one doesn’t agree with the outcome”, because that is exactly what the proponents of judicial retention are doing with their scare tactics that this vote will change the system and affect court caseloads.

McCormick attacked out of state money for supporting the removal effort, but has been silent on the out of state lawyers and money used to support gay marriage prior to the Iowa Supreme Court's decision, or since.

Another former Supreme Court justice, Robert Allbee, even took a cheap shot when asked whether the retention vote was a referendum on gay marriage, Allbee snarked: “It may just be another referendum on Mr. Vander Plaats. He’s had three already.”

Snark is what I do, not something someone of Albee's station in life should resort to in a public forum.