Just emailed Harkin and Nussle

[Bluzmann57]

about high gas prices and the (percieved) gouging that is going on. I asked both of them to demand an investigation into oil companies and profiteering in times of misfortune. I also mentioned that the federal government blew it in offering help to the unfortunate people affected by the hurricane. I'm anxiously awaiting a response from both men. Something tells me they will be vastly different. You all should contact your reps out there as well. Harkin and Grassley too. I'm writuing Grassley now. This whole thing stinks and we have to take action and let the elected officials know that we won't stand for being screwed like this.

[rurallib]

1. Dorgan of ND said on Ed Schultz Friday that he will hold

investigations on oil prices. Said Katrina had nothing to do with what happened before when they made exorbitant profilts.
Did email my big three (G,H & Leach) about investigating administration response to Katrina.
Also, called Grassley to vote against estate tax cut. Can you believe them greedy fucking Repubs are pushing that through now?

[pstans]

2. Write Nussle about cutting the funding for the levees in NO

Write Nussle about cutting the funding for the levees in NO. Tell him that you hold him responsible for the damage. The first 2 days after the Hurricane was a natural disaster, but the rest was a man made disaster and he had a part of that.

[melissinha]

6. Nussle voted against levee funding?

I'm outta that loop, I currently live in Texas, but have voted in a few elections back home in Iowa.

I like to write Harkin frmo time to time when I feel like writing a Democratic Senator who I trust cause I don't have any.

That f*ing retard Nussle did that? He went to my alma mater... thanks alot. Yes you should be concerned with providing for your district, but you can't balance your district the war, cut taxes at the expense of the physical safety of another district.

Guess that idiot doesn't remember the 1993 floods too well.

[IA_Seth]

7. Actually...

I think Nussle voted against an appropriation for Iowa to help recover from the 1993 floods. I don't recall that exactly, I was only 15 at the time, but I think that's right.

The way he has been voted in time after time only shows what uninformed voters are capable of.

[melissinha]

8. Really?

I can't remember that far back.. he even voted against his own constituents? My Dad always told me that he may be a republican but he works for his constituents....Wow.

Uninformed voters vote on issues that are against their own best interests, you know that. ;)

[IA_Seth]

9. Here, I looked around a little...

Make sure no family members vote for this yahoo for governor...


http://www.iowademocrats.org/index.php?display=ReleaseDetails&i=655186&PHPSESSID=571af23fecb1297035ff02922506745e


Midwest Flood Relief – In stark contrast to comments made about Katrina, Nussle said that deficits were as important as funding Disaster Aid for the floods of ’93.
"Scores of House members from waterlogged districts went home yesterday to try to explain why they voted to temporarily shelve a $3 billion Midwestern flood relief bill. Most House Republicans... who disagreed with the use of deficit financing to pay for the emergency bill joined forces to block it... Rep. Jim Nussle (R-Iowa), a leader of the opposition."



Iowa Flood of 1993 – Nussle stood in Washington delaying flood relief funding by nearly a week as Iowa experienced “the worst flooding in the state’s history.”
“The worst flooding in the state's history… All of Iowa was under a flash flood watch.”

[melissinha]

10. S.O.B.

Thanks... now, tell me how does he keep getting re-elected? I am still sore over losing Nagle to him when their districts were combined.

[IA_Seth]

11. It's all image...

Nussle (and Leach, and Grassley for that matter) is somehow able to pull off a "moderate" image with Iowans by voting against his party when his vote won't hurt their agenda.

It's the uninformed voter that gets misled and believes that Nussle (or any of the above) is a moderate "because he voted for _____" which is all just a bunch of horseshit. If every voter had to actually understand the issues they were voting for and were able to vote based on candidate's past records instead of media clips and anecdotes, we might move this country in the right direction.

I would imagine this is how most Republicans hold onto their power really.

On top of that, if Iowans actually knew what was going on in Washington in regards to deficits and bloated spending they would vote these scumbags out faster than we could field opposing candidates.

I know a lot of rural Iowan conservatives that are generally good people who believe in small government, something this administration, and the Republicans as a whole, haven't actually practiced in years. Lower taxes does not mean less government spending (although it should?).

It all comes back to voter education.

Can you tell I am bitter?

[melissinha]

12. very true

Yes you are bitter, and rightfully so.

Post inaugaration I was thinking about just that.... showing roll call votes as information regarding incumbent candidates.. thing is there are so many mislabled Acts like the "Clear Skies Act" that it would be difficult to understand for newly informed voters....


I went through roll calls one day and compared Harkin to Hutchison (my current senator) and you could see how they were exact opposites.... But without reading about the proposed bills everyday, its hard to really keep track.

People have to GOT to stop voting against their own interests and stop relying on wedge issues that really don't matter like gay marriage .... Maher put it well the other day:

Bottom line: some people think Satan is real and some people think global warming is real. If you think stopping gays from doing it is more important than the ice caps melting, the boogeyman is you...

[Debi]

13. Nagle took him on about not responding during the 1993 floods

and for voting against the funding. Nagle had a former staff memeber serving as the regional director of FEMA down in Kansis City.
Nagle knew exactly what needed to happen and when.

Nussle still won reelection in a landslide in 1994 - thanks to Newt Gingrich...UGH x(.

[Blue Gardener]

3. I emailed Grassley and Leach

And told them things aren't looking good for the repugs in 2006 as long as gas prices remain as they are. It is too much of a burden on many Iowans, especially the elderly and those that live in small towns and have to commute many miles just to have a decent paying job. I sent the emails several days ago and haven't heard anything back.

[rurallib]

4. Wait til you try to heat your house this winter!

There will be heart attacks over that first bill.

[Blue Gardener]

5. Thankfully I have a small house

Times like this I'm very grateful I don't live in a McMansion.