Iowa Republicans Continue To Ignore Conservatives

Democrats must be relishing the continued funk in the so-called Republican "leadership" as Krusty outlines in this post ("Lundby Elected Minority Leader after Konservatives walk out").

An earlier post by Krusty ("Rebuilding Our Party") has a wish list that will surely never be met or addressed by the party's crust for years to come.

I think it's bizarro world as far as State-oriented politics go in Iowa. Republicans basically allowed the sales tax in Iowa to go up 80%, expanded gambling, green-lighted Touchplay, went along with massive taxpayer-financed corporate welfare, and brought in legalized loansharking. About the only thing they've done right lately is the anti-Kelo eminent domain legislation, but even that was a bi-sexual effort.

I don't really understand what Republicans in Iowa are for anymore. They're not about fiscal conservatism, that's for sure. Were they ever? They didn't try to scale back state spending or stop Vilsack's raiding of the Rainy Day Funds to any degree. Republicans just seemed to drop their pants and lube up for the Democrats and Special Interests to have their way.

Democrats haven't been much better. Their disregard for the little guy has been staggering. It's all about sucking off the unions, bashing the state's largest private employer, and championing every single tax increase that can be dreamed up. Why oh why are Democrats in favor of taxpayer financed corporate welfare over properly funding the state's universities? Why should Democrats be in favor of taking somebody's house and giving it to an out-of-state private developer who wants to build another fucking strip mall with the same shitty cell phone, tanning, payday loan, and Subway franchises you see everywhere? I never understood that one at all.

Maybe I should take current party values at face value: Republicans simply want to make deals with Democrats in order to be liked, and Democrats simply hate everything about Republicans except when Republicans cave. I think that's all the two parties stand for these days. That, and the whole abortion nonsense.