Wrong Again!

Two Dummycrats came to Iowa to tell us how to pick our President.

From Saturday's Ragister...

Biden: Americans need experienced president

Americans must not vote for inexperienced, likeable presidential candidates, then hope the winner can get up to speed after the election, U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden said in Des Moines...

Then today comes word that...

Character Trumps Policy for Voters

A new Associated Press-Ipsos poll says 55 percent of those surveyed consider honesty, integrity and other values of character the most important qualities they look for in a presidential candidate.

Just one-third look first to candidates' stances on issues; even fewer focus foremost on leadership traits, experience or intelligence.

Wrong-o Joe! (Pictured putting Patrick Leahy (VT) and Ted Kennedy (MA) to sleep).

Maybe it's time to go back to borrowing from Neil Kinnock, or since you're in Iowa borrow from Nile Kinnick.

It's no surprise your middle name is ROBinette!

Next!

The Ragister reports today...

Iowans should be skeptical of presidential candidates who promise painless solutions to the nation's health care problems, former U.S. Sen. John Edwards said...

"You ask them how much it costs, if they don't tell you," he said. "And you ask them how they're going to pay for it."

"My plan costs $90 billion to $120 billion per year, and I've got a way of paying for it," he said... "The way we pay for it is by rolling back Bush's tax cuts for the richest people in the country."

The Washington Times runs a column today that takes on myths of President Bush's tax cuts...

The rich now shoulder even more of the burden. Since 2000, the share of individual income taxes paid by the bottom 40 percent of taxpayers dropped from zero to minus 4 percent -- meaning the average family in this group got a subsidy from the refundable child tax credit or earned income tax credit. The share of income taxes paid by the top fifth of taxpayers climbed from 81 percent to 85 percent.

Let's take a look at what John Kerry once said about John Edwards (Both pictured in what appears to be a shakedown of some youngster)...

"John Edwards, I notice, voted to give life to George Bush's tax cut, because he voted for the first round of that tax cut..."

Just like his old running mate, he was before the War with Iraq before he was against it and he was for the tax cuts before he was against it.

Credit

Mike Tramontina co-authored an opinion piece that ran in the Ragister.

Iowa View: It's time to help Iowa's hardworking families with the EITC

The EITC is the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Tramontina has been described as a lifelong bureaucrat, having served in the administrations of The Pickle and the Big Lug Nut.

Under Culver, ouch, Tramontina was head of the Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) when the film office fiasco developed.

Which means Tramontina continues to be very generous with taxpayer dollars and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Tramontina defended Iowa's then tax credit policies, even after the film scandal broke and caused his exit from state government.

Fiscally Conservative Dummycrats

Of course it's an OXYMORON!

More MORON than Oxy.

The Ragister had this observation regarding Polk County Supervisor Candidates Gene Phillips and John Mauro....

Both are fiscal conservatives by Democratic standards.

Chester Culver said in Saturday's Gubernatorial Debate that he was a fiscal conservative.

I was pondering that and then I checked Krusty Konservative's blog and he was able to put it in perspective for me.

Here's what that will mean for us REAL taxpayers....

$187 million to Expand Drug Coverage for Seniors with Multiple Prescriptions
$170 Million for Teacher Pay Raise
$150 million to Expand HAWK-I for parents of eligible children
$120 million for New Prison at Fort Madison
$100 million for Iowa Power Fund
$65.5 million for Higher Education;
$50 million for College Scholarship Program
$45.6 million to Expand HAWK-I for all eligible children
$40.5 million to Fill Prescription Drug “Doughnut Hole”
$40 million to Shift of Property Taxes to State
$21 million to Expand Earned Income Tax Credit
$15 million for Teacher Incentives
$15 million for Pre-School Education
$12.5 million for Community College Job Training Program
$10 million for the Iowa Center for Regenerative Medicine
$3 million for Iowa Senior Year Plus
$1.9 million for Domestic Violence Programs
$500,000 for Character Education Programs

Total Cost to Iowa Taxpayers of $1.048 billion