Things Making Me Mad Today: Rhymes, Faulty Numbers, and Yepsen

First of all, lots of Dems are throwing around cutesy Nussle rhymes and it’s gross.  Vilsack has coined the “Nussle hustle,” and Fallon kicked it up a notch by ending his convention speech with the chant “Out-muscle Jim Nussle, out-hustle Jim Nussle, let’s tussle with Nussle and win!”  

According to Radio Iowa, the Iowa Department of Economic Development released a report today showing that the Values Fund has only actually created or retained 8,000 of the 25,000 jobs Vilsack was claiming.  In other words, Ed Fallon was right all along.  (In case you’re keeping score, that’s still 0 points for Vilsack.)

Yepsen flaps his mouth about why Culver decided to call for Archie Brooks’ resignation.  After implying that CIETC is indicative of “the Democrats’ culture of cronyism in Polk County” and that Democrats need Brooks to deliver votes, he briefly bothers to mention that Culver is “among the majority of civic-minded Democrats who are profoundly outraged that people who call themselves Democrats would engage in the obscenity of milking a program designed to benefit the jobless.”  So what you’re really saying then, Dave, is that corrupt politicians exist (gasp!) and that every now and then they happen to be Democrats.  You would never, ever write a biased story that makes unnecesary jabs at Culver (just read it for yourself), right?

One happy bit though: another Register columnist goes over how Michael Mauro shouldn’t be tarnished by having relatives working at CIETC.  It even includes quotes from Republicans saying what a great, professional, nonpartisan job he has done as Polk County auditor.  Of course, one does manage to “sneak” a nonpartisan raspberry into print: “Michael has forgotten more about elections and election law than Chet Culver ever knew.”  Sometimes I wonder if it’s wrong for me to even bother repeating their nonsense, but that one’s just funny.

p.s. Hotline has a story about the Culver campaign accidentally appropriating a Nussle quote on their website. WTF, mate?

6 comments June 20th, 2006