Tea Party "Movement" Biggest Mass Deception Since WMDs
by Trish Nelson

Remember, back in April when we said on Blog for Iowa that the tea party movement was like an extended infomercial without the info? And when we said that the Tea Party-as-grassroots-movement narrative was just one...

Ah, the Chuckster, the primogenitora signature of the all time Huckster of rearward thinking, no one could think this dude up, even he couldn't make himself up

he would have us believe he arrived through parthenogenesis, his shenanigans will never end

he and his "Game" have been the ruination of...

by Iowan John Shumaker

Here's something by my current favorite poet I'd like to share:

~Its absolutely impossible to describe the depths of DEPRAVITY of Chuck Grassley, this man has sold his soul years, aeons, decades ago, when he goes to the hereafter he'll have to answer; for...

Progressives Crash Iowa City Tea Party
by Trish Nelson

An actual tea party would probably have been more exciting. All in all, I'd have to consider this one a dud. The tea partiers are so yesterday. Can we please stop talking about them now?

Probably not, because the...

This Old Fossil
A Poem by John Shumaker

Ah Chuck "the man" Grassley,
there's just not enough superlative invective ya can say about this old fossil.
Well golly gee everything sure is swell Chuck Senator for Life Grassley puffs up with pride at his SWELL accomplishments
...

Why is Huffpo attacking the Obama administration with the same zeal with which they went after the Bush administration? It's not like they're the same animal, and need to be treated with equal venom. Why would a progressive blog see fit to undermine a progressive President who is actually trying...

Have you had enough of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dennis Miller, Michael Savage, Jan Mickelson, Steve Deace, Fred Thompson, and friends saturating the publicly owned radio airwaves across Iowa and across the nation?

Here's what we're doing about it in eastern Iowa. Let's make it a statewide/nationwide...

September 15, 2009

Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and Chief Executive
News Corporation
1211 Avenue of Americas
8th Floor
NY, NY 10036

Dear Mr. Murdoch:

I am writing to you because I understand you own and control a large number of newspapers, television stations and other kinds...

Trish Nelson reported from Iowa City, IA, as part of HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Town Hall Watch.

You know you're in Iowa City when someone shouts, "Socialism!" and the room applauds. Note to conservatives: Please do not freak out, we were just joking. It's just Iowans' way of...