Dem Implosion on Horizon: Nationally and in Iowa
Nathan Greene
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By Emily Geiger
Is anyone else sensing a Democratic implosion? I’m not just talking on the national level. In that realm of politics, everyone has heard about the name-calling and “misstatements" going on over there. My personal favorites are the now infamous Gordon Fischer smackdown on the Clintons and James Carville calling Bill Richardson Judas on Easter. I didn’t know Gordon had it in him, but that was awesome. Too bad he decided to wimp out and retract his statement.
I’m also talking about the Democratic free-for-all brawl happening at the state level right here in Iowa. A clear example of this is the collective bargaining for public employees bill that Gov. Culver is threatening to veto, much to the chagrin of Supreme Iowa Democrat Mike Gronstal, as well as other democratic legislative leaders at the Statehouse. Nathan gave you some of their highly disrespectful quotes about Culver yesterday. My jaw literally dropped open reading this.
I saw Gronstal on TV last night talking about how he was confident the bill would pass (despite Culver’s clear indications it very well may not). And on a side note, could Gronstal be more evil/cranky/smug/ completely unpleasant looking? Yikes. I seriously don’t think the guy could ever run for governor due to his obnoxiousness factor. So instead, he just tries to play puppet-master from his pedestal in the Senate. Unfortunately for Gronstal, it looks like ol’ Chet may actually have a backbone in there way down deep under all that pudge after all. (Note: I'm withholding final judgment on the backbone question until this thing is over. Like Nathan, I'm not sure I trust the Chetster.)
Then, it also looks like House and Senate Democratic leadership are at odds over the smoking ban. I’ve talked about this before, but it seems appropriate to mention again here in this context. None of these Dems are on the same page with each other.
The infighting has gotten so bad, even the Register is talking about it. Here’s another great quote regarding the Gronstal/Culver feud:
Let’s hope the Dems keep so busy fighting themselves, they forget about the GOP challengers who are quickly gaining ground as November approaches. Heck, they may be so ticked off at each other, they’ll abandon the dark side altogether.
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