My Guarantee

In launching his latest campaign ad (Field Of Memes?), the Big Lug Nut told the press -- “I can guarantee you one thing, we’re going to win on Nov. 2.”

The press still has never pressed Culver on a previous guarantee from February --

"And I guarantee you by late spring and summer, we're going to have a record amount of job creation and economic development in the state."

Iowa's job gain in July was 1,700 jobs.

That's not a record amount and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I can guarantee you the 113,800 unemployed Iowans don't think it's a record amount of job creation.

The 30,000 jobs you told Iowans that I-JOBS would create would have been more like it.

Culver now is complaining of a hidden meaning in Team Branstad's latest ad.

Culver related that using the word, "big", over his picture is an inappropriate attack on his weight.

Odd, because he also told the press that he didn't consider the ad an attack on your “girth”?

Now he's trying to be macho and is challenging Branstad to a triathlon.

NO!

I still haven't got these pictures out of my mind.














Chet Culver has had his chance and Iowa can't afford to give you another one.

Quote A Bull

The Liter likes these 2K10 gems...

The Des Moines Register on Super Bowl Sunday --

"More People Will Read The Register Today Than Will Watch The Big Game".

"With a combined print and online audience of 587,878 readers, The Des Moines Register is a tremendous scoring opportunity".

The Nielsen numbers for Central Iowa showed 632,000 people watched Super Bowl XLIV.

In the political arena, you had Mari "Mrs. Big Lug Nut" Culver admitting

“It will be nice to make money. That’s never a bad thing.”

That's Blasphemy to Dummycrats and the scientific community is united in that fact.

At a Cedar Rapids campaign rally, with Vice President Joe Biden --

"If you’re not pumped now, you’re not pump-able".

November showed no pump-a-tude.

Here's Biden, in Cedar Rapids, on the Big Lug Nut --

“I’ve known Chet — I hate to admit this — since he was seven years old, sitting in my front lawn in Wilmington, Delaware with his dad and mom..." shortly before referring to him as "Chuck Culver".

There was Rozanne, err Taxanne Conlin, "whatever her name is", running for the Senate because --

"I'm fed up with tax breaks for the very wealthy..."

All the while this very wealthy person, with assets between $12.5 million and $46.8 million, took tax abatement on her $1.7 Million home and received $64.2 Million in housing tax credits.

The Big Lug Nut brought us --

“This isn’t my first rodeo. We’re going to be ready and we’re going to win this race.”

And

“I can guarantee you one thing, we’re going to win on Nov. 2”.

It wasn't his first guarantee, or the first time he was wrong.

"And I guarantee you by late spring and summer, we're going to have a record amount of job creation and economic development in the state."

Iowa's unemployment rate remained well above 6.5% for all of 2010.

Without a doubt, the Big Lug Nut's best came from the first gubernatorial debate...

Brain Suck
























Nationally, President Obama tops the list with --

"I'm not going to rest...until the leak is stopped at the source, the oil on the Gulf is contained and cleaned up and the people of this region are able to go back to their lives and their livelihoods".

All the while taking getaways to Chicago and North Carolina, finding time to play basketball, go golfing and take in a Nationals game.

And

"...we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."

His ended up getting kicked in November.

However, he was on top of his game with

Plug The Damn Hole

Here's to 2011!

Money Back Guarantee?

The Big Lug Nut will come to rue the day he declared this about his I-JOBS borrowing scam...

"And I guarantee you by late spring and summer, we're going to have a record amount of job creation and economic development in the state."

Big words from a BIG MAN and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Remember, when it was sold to the public one year ago it was supposed to create 30,000 jobs.

The BLN himself recently said he hoped I-JOBS would create "hundreds if not thousands of jobs."

Unemployment Stomp

Where are the jobs?

Joe Biden promised in April -- "...in the next couple of months we're going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month."

The Federal unemployment rate remains at 9.5% and job growth has taken a step back after fairly strong gains between February and April.

In Iowa, Chet Culver promised in February --

"And I guarantee you by late spring and summer, we're going to have a record amount of job creation and economic development in the state."

Iowa's unemployment rate has remained at 6.8%, not the 6.6% that Blog for Iowa has erroneously reported.

It's time to put these politicians on the unemployment line at a 100% rate and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Start with CONgress, then the Iowa statewide races and finally the Iowa Legislature.

Hardly Working In America

Killing time between golf games and vacations, President Obama told some gathered in Milwaukee that his Grandfather helped teach him about what being a hard-working American is all about.

That's a good one, he must be working on a stand up comedy routine.

The President continued with -- "I am going to keep fighting every single day, every single hour, every single minute, to turn this economy around and put people back to work and renew the American Dream, not just for your family, not just for all our families, but for future generations. That I can guarantee you".

The press must have missed the part that started, Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Obama in January on the economy -- We will not rest until we build an economy that's ready for America's future".

Since January, Obama's had about 22 vacation days and he's played roughly 50 rounds of golf since taking office in 2009.

James Brown has been dead since Christmas Day 2006 and he works harder than Obama and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Don't forget Obama on the gulf oil spill -- "I'm not going to rest...until the leak is stopped at the source" and catching terrorists --'We will not rest' until air terror plotters caught.

In Milwaukee, Obama also noted, “They talk about me like a dog...".

Not true, I'm nicer to dogs because they deserve it.

I do like this take on the line --

Self-described mutt Barack Obama: Don't 'talk about me like a dog'

Just like a dog, Obama's already ruined the new rug.

AJA?

The American Jobs Act (AJA), or Stimulus lite as I'm calling it, is to be sent to Congress today, after a Rose Garden ceremony.

I beg your pardon, but if it's so damn important that
"Congress should pass this bill right now", then Obama should have had it with him to give to Congress when he addressed them last week and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Michael Barone responds to some of President Obama's AJA highlights(?)...

He called for a school modernization program (will it result in more jobs than the Seattle weatherization program that cost $22 million and produced 14 jobs?) and for funding more teacher jobs (a political payoff to the teacher unions which together with other unions gave Democrats $400 million in the 2008 campaign cycle).

“We’ll set up an independent fund to attract private dollars and issue loans based on two criteria: how badly a construction project is needed and how much good it would do for the country.” Yeah, sure. Like the screening process that produced that $535,000,000 loan guarantee to now-bankrupt Solyndra.

And Congress should pass the free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Except that Congress can’t, because Obama hasn’t sent them up there yet in his 961 days as president.

Tuesday Afternoon

Terrible (to quote Charles Barkley)

That might be the word to use the kind of day the Big Lug Nut had.

First, the focus was on $576,000 the U.S. Election Assistance Commission says he misspent as Secretary of State.

Iowa Voters has a different angle on the scandal.

the real scandal was the money that was “properly” spent on touchscreen voting machines that have since been scrapped. If anyone wants to criticize then SoS Chet Culver, it should be for that foolish purchase

The BLN brags that its only a half a million dollars, and in the scam of things it is only a drop in the bucket when compared to his $875 million (plus interest) I-JOBS program.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Which leads us to the second part of Sweaty Chetty's Terrible Tuesday.

Dave Price, WHO HD, questioned the BLN on how many jobs have been created by his borrowing scam, it's a quest they began two months ago (No Controlling Authority?) and the Culver Crew still can't come up with an answer.

"We've now invested in 1500 projects. If you're talking about one job per project, you're talking about 1500 jobs. 10 jobs per project, you can do the math." Channel 13 had hoped Culver or his staff had done the math.

The Liter has pointed out previously that this administration contains no Mathletes.

It was just last month during Culver's campaign kickoff that a lost briefing book showed

In Story County, I-JOBS spent $40 million, while unemployment climbed to 5.4% from 4%. In Marshall County, the state spent $24 million and watched unemployment rise to 8.5% from 7.2%.In Johnson County, the state spent $155 million while unemployment rose to 4.8% from 3.7%.

Earlier this year Culver declared --

"And I guarantee you by late spring and summer, we're going to have a record amount of job creation and economic development in the state."

Just like Charles Barkley, Chet Culver is a Dumbass!

Back In Time

For those unable to see, because it was in a very dark room, The Big Lug Nut officially announced his re-election effort with the theme -- “Choosing a Brighter Future.”

The location was Des Moines Hoover High school, where the BLN was a onetime government/history teacher, and the backdrop for assorted violence over the years.

It wasn't long ago a female Des Moines Police Officer suffered a broken nose during a brawl and, on the same day as the Governor's announcement, a student was robbed.

During his announcement, Culver admitted -- “You know, I’ve not always gotten it right, but I’ve always given it 100 percent effort".

He must have reverted to teacher mode, wanting Iowans to give him an "E" for effort and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In his speech, the Big Lug Nut stunned no one when he said -- "I've grown as a person".












Culver discussed the Iowa economy and cited a (generic, not specific) single mother from Sioux City working two jobs to make ends meet.

She'll be fine, because according to Culver -- "... I guarantee you by late spring and summer, we're going to have a record amount of job creation and economic development in the state."

She's not real and neither are the I-JOBS.

The Big Lug Nut is on the road, where we found out...Culver stumps Ames













He must have asked them how many jobs have been created by his borrowing scam.

Arizona

It's clear that this kind of law must be removed from the books...

"Authorities, whether federal, state or municipal ... are required to demand that foreigners prove their legal presence in the country, before attending to any issues."

The trouble is that it's Article 67 of Mexico's Population Law and the scientific community is united in that fact.

So, Mexican President Felipe Calderon's statement, that the Arizona law “doesn’t adequately guarantee respect for people’s fundamental rights", appears to be somewhat ironic.

Michelle Malkin has more on Mexico's hypocrisy here.

Boycott has become the word of the day with the loony left and one target is Arizona Iced Tea.

The one problem is that it's a product of New York.

The O lympics

It's a good thing there's nothing going on in Washington so the President can jet to Copenhagen to try and help Chicago nail the landing on the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Obama will join his wife, who'll already be there, and Oprah's on too.

O will look like a zerO if ChicagO is a nO gO and the scientific cOmmunity is united in that fact.

It's nice that things are going so well for Chicago that they can afford to guarantee $500 Million in taxpayer funds to cover any operating deficit for the Games.

How ironic is it that $500 Million is also the cities budget shortfall in 2010?

Good to see they've taken care of that "murder capital" of America moniker too.

O wait.

OOps!

Counting The Days

According to President Obama, he's got a little over 1,200 days left in office.

Or, roughly 179 golf days and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Obama continued --

I am going to spend every waking minute of every one of those days thinking about and then acting upon any good ideas out there that are going to help ordinary Americans succeed, that are going to make sure that the next generation believes in the American Dream because they’ve seen it in their own lives.  That’s how I’m going to spend my time.

Sound familiar?

Labor Day 2010 -- 

I am going to keep fighting every single day, every single hour, every single minute, to turn this economy around and put people back to work and renew the American Dream, not just for your family, not just for all our families, but for future generations. That I can guarantee you.

America wanted FORE more years and they're getting it, as Obama's on Track to Break His Annual Golf Record.

Tell The Truth

President Obama is being less than truthful when he says --

"I cannot guarantee that those checks (Social Security) go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it."

The U.S. will take in $172.4 billion in revenue from August 3 to 31 and will pay out $29 billion a month in interest payments on the debt.

Social Security will cost about $49. 2 billion.

Medicare and Medicaid will cost about $50 billion.

Active duty military pay will cost about $2.9 billion.

Veterans affairs programs will cost about $2.9 billion.

That leaves $38.4 Billion and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The only thing we have to fear, is four more years of hope and change.

Summer's Almost Gone

So is any chance of the Big Lug Nut living up to this promise from February and the scientific community is united in that fact.

"And I guarantee you by late spring and summer, we're going to have a record amount of job creation and economic development in the state."

1,700 jobs for the state is no record.

Is this one of the feats daddy was bragging about?

I doubt that 113,800 Iowans unemployed Iowans agree.

No sweat, Chet can land one of those numerous I-JOBS for his next gig.

Fore what? I'd be teed off!

It's Polk County Day at the Principal Charity Classic Golf Tournament.

Taxpayer dollars are being used to provide...

FREE admission courtesy of Polk County!
FREE t-shirt to first 500 spectators

I'm sure they got a break on the $15 a day tickets, but I bet they had to guarantee a certain head count.

Anyway you slice it, it's rough for the taxpayers and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Wasting money is nothing new to the Board of Supervisors as in the past they've doled out:

$750,000 to CIETC.

$382,600 because of the Supervisors greed.

$20,000 grant that paid parents $95 to get involved in their child's education.

Such fiduciary responsibility led to a rise in property assessments ranging from 6.9% to 9.2%.

If I were a Polk County taxpayer, I'd want a mulligan on the last election.

All Bets Are Off

Busing through Ohio and Pennsylvania, President Obama says he's "Betting on America".

The trouble is he's using out tax dollars as house money and he has a flawed system (Solyndra & Abound Solar to name two)  and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Obama and his closest allies have proposed more Solyndra- and Ex-Im-type loan guarantee programs for favored industries. 

Looks like we'll crap out again.

It was only last summer that Obama said, on another previous bus tour, “This is not rocket science in terms of how we can create more jobs in this country.”

Then the unemployment rate was 9.1 percent and today it remains at 8.2 percent, for the second straight month.

May Be A Price To Pay

President Obama cannot guarantee that Social Security checks will go out on August 3rd (Tell The Truth), but he can fly to Chicago that day to celebrate his 50th birthday?

He could cover a lot of needy people's checks with the $181,757+ per hour it costs to run Air Force One and the scientific community is united in that fact.

All this for fund-raisers, with tickets ranging from $50 a person to $35,800 per couple, for his re-election.

Not only can America not afford four more years, we can't afford the rest of his term!

License to Kill

Having a driver's license doesn't mean you know how to drive and it certainly doesn't guarantee you have insurance and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Hellary has come under fire for her waffling on the issue of driver's licenses for illegals.

A whack job Drake professor, Lee Joliffe (and Dummycrat activist), tried to bail her out over the weekend with...

"There are two of us here who have been hit by those unlicensed drivers. It's not a privilege, it’s a protection."

What does it protect against?

If anything it weakens us in ways we should really care about, such as our elections.

As John Fund points out...

...the National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as "Motor Voter," that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1993. It required all states to offer voter registration to anyone getting a driver's license. One simply fills out a form and checks a box stating he is a citizen; he is then registered and in most states does not have to show any ID to vote.

...The potential for fraud is not trivial, as federal privacy laws prevent cross-checking voter registration rolls with immigration records. Nevertheless, a 1997 Congressional investigation found that "4,023 illegal voters possibly cast ballots in [a] disputed House election" in California. After 9/11, the Justice Department found that eight of the 19 hijackers were registered to vote.

...Under pressure from liberal groups, some states have even abandoned the requirement that people check a citizenship box to be put on the voter rolls. Iowa has told local registrars they should register people even if they leave the citizenship box blank. Maryland officials wave illegal immigrants through the registration process, prompting a Justice Department letter warning they may be helping people violate federal law.

Lee Joliffe should be as concerned about that as she was in 2004 when she tried to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot in Iowa...

"I'm a teacher; I don't like cheating. I'm a researcher; I don't like fraud."

Dummycrats only care about voter fraud when they don't win, they invent 'spiracies to justify their losses.

A little food for thought on election Tuesday.

Curb your enthusiasm

The Warm-Monger will be trying to heat things up when he appears at the Dummycrat Jefferson-Jackson dinner next month.

I can just about guarantee the weather will be cooler and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It likes like Gore's reception could be downright chilly, at least from one respected Democrat.

Blessed?

In his ringing endorsement of the Big Lug Nut recently, Joe Biden stated...

“You’re blessed in Iowa -- Things are not as nearly as bad as they are in the rest of the country.”

That was a couple of days before the unemployment rate in the state bumped up to 6.9%.

With that in mind, Biden probably believes we should be downright joyful and the scientific community is united in that fact.

As an aside, I'm not sure if Biden made the error or the Ragister's Tom Beaumont, but the March unemployment figure was 6.8% not the noted 6.7%.

The "blessed" remark was also before the leaked BLN briefing book that showed how his borrowing scam hasn't worked.

In Story County, I-JOBS spent $40 million, while unemployment climbed to 5.4% from 4%. In Marshall County, the state spent $24 million and watched unemployment rise to 8.5% from 7.2%.In Johnson County, the state spent $155 million while unemployment rose to 4.8% from 3.7%.

Blessed?

I-JOBS was originally billed as creating 30,000 jobs, then 22,000 jobs which fell to 21,000 jobs before a blowhard for the BLN said -- "...1,500 jobs, 4,000 jobs or somewhere in between, the bottom line is it's going to create a lot of jobs."

The 6.9% is in sharp contrast to the Governor's statement..."... I guarantee you by late spring and summer, we're going to have a record amount of job creation and economic development in the state."

Iowa was one of only 6 states to report an increase in jobless rates.

Blessed?

34 states reported lower jobless rates.

Not as nearly as bad as they are in the rest of the country?

North Dakota again had the lowest jobless rate -- 3.8 percent. That's down from 4 percent in March. It was followed by South Dakota, whose rate dipped to 4.7 percent in April, from 4.8 percent in March, and Nebraska at 5 percent, unchanged from the previous month.

B.S. At Coe?

The second gubernatorial debate is tonight, at Coe College, and Iowa Dummycrats are looking for a game changer in their favor.

They shouldn't need one, because according to Culver -- “I can guarantee you one thing, we’re going to win on Nov. 2”.

I'm looking for another "brain suck" moment from the Big Lug Nut.













And the scientific community is united in that fact.

I'm also waiting for the two Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) employess to get back to me on the 16,000 new jobs, that Culver claimed in the first debate, have been created since December.

In preparation for the debate, Culver this week announced flood recovery as the defining issue of the campaign.

How many times can there be a defining issue?

So far, for Culver, it's three -- Culver had previously given that distinction to preschool and embryonic stem cell research.

Culver has recently criticized Terry Branstad plans to cut the state budget by 15% over five years.

Because 10% in a fiscal year is the magic number?

Per the governor, costs would be pushed down to local governments -- “Your property taxes are going to go through the roof”.

Culver knows what he's talking about, his across the board 10% cut has helped facilitate a more than $133 million increase in property taxes.