bleedingheartland has a great wrap on Iowa pols response to ACA decision

[rurallib]

http://www.bleedingheartland.com/diary/5590/iowa-reaction-to-supreme-court-upholding-health-care-reform-law

As you can imagine, Repubs are using it to stuff their already overflowing cash boxes.

BTW - for you older folks - does this response remind you at all of the response to Brown v. Board?

[shcrane71]

1. How did Brandstad get back in? nt

[rurallib]

2. I'll try to be short - Culver really blew it

he vetoed two labor bills that he had promised to support. That + the whole 2010 atmosphere.
Branstad always loved the limelight, even though his wife hates it.
Repubs had NO other real viable candidate (the crazy Bob VanderPlaats). Branstad barely beat him in the primary.
Iowans forget easily - we are easy going and forgiving - so the shit job that Branstad did was forgotten.
And of course the media loved him.
So we got him again and a nutcase bagger Lt. Governor named Kim Reynolds. She had 2 years in the legislature I think.

[shcrane71]

3. More and more I'm convinced that people are drawn to strong leaders.

No one wants to follow someone who flip flops. No one wants to stand behind someone who is going to pull the rug out from under you. Yeah, Culver blew it. I hope the Dems realize now that they must stand on their principles, and BE principled.

[47of74]

4. I hope pretty soon people get tired of Braindead

And I hope whoever runs for Governor in 2014 it's some hard, pipe hitting liberal from the east side who will go down to Des Moines and go medieval (in a political sense) on the Republicans.