Jim Nussle is emerging as the anti-women candidate of the season

[Debi]

Role in cutting farm subsidies may affect Nussle's campaign

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle has an unusual entry on his resume as he's running for governor of Iowa: He's in charge of passing a package of budget cuts that will reduce farm subsidies.

But Nussle, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, and fellow Republicans have sought to limit the political fallout of the budget cuts in rural America.

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Overall, the package of spending cuts would total $50 billion over five years and includes reductions in spending for Medicaid, the health program for the poor; student loans; and food stamps.

The biggest impact in Iowa is likely to be in the increase in the cost of student loans and the reduction in state aid for child-support enforce- ment.

The effect on Nussle's gubernatorial campaign is likely to be marginal, said Dennis Goldford, a political analyst at Drake University.

"What he wants to do is sell some sense of leadership and vision for Iowa. I'm not sure that this speaks to that," Goldford said.

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Democrats say the reductions in food stamps — which would affect an estimated 300,000 people nationwide — are unfair. Rural development programs also could be hurt.




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I believe (and I know you all will correct me if I'm wrong) that these cuts disproportionately hurt women (especially singer mothers - or divorced mothers trying to get back on their feet). Higher student loan payments, lower or no food stamps, no help in collecting child support from non-payers. This along with Nussle's "Men with political power can make smarter reproductive health care decisions than women can" attitude makes him my nominee for the most anti-women candidate of the 2006 election season.

[IA_Seth]

1. VanderPutz

I wouldn't cast your ballot yet!

If this race is anything like a normal Repub primary VanderPutz will be coming out with his own version of "Screw the Poor" within a week or two!

[ISUGRADIA]

2. VanderPutz has criticized Nussle for allowing women who get

pregnant through rape or incest to be able to get an abortion. VP seems ahead in one area at least.

[Debi]

4. You are correct, maybe I was too hasty! n/t

[pstans]

6. I saw VanderPutz on Iowa Press

I liked the things he was saying about Eduaction. He is basically against No Child Left Behind. Then they asked him about his feeling on abortion and the death penalty. He said, I am 100% pro-life and then said he is for the death penalty. Huh, how can that be 100% pro-life? He also said he is for the Iraq War, again how can that be 100% pro-life?

:shrug:

[Debi]

7. He wants 'em all to be born....

Then he'll send back the one's he doesn't want. :eyes:

[pstans]

8. Haha, that is a good one

I am going to be repeating that one over and over.

[Rambis]

10. Rethugs are "pro birth"

they don't give a shit what happens to a kid after it is born. They don't care if it is ever adopted or if it is ever educated.
This burns my arse big time with these clowns. Birth it then forget it- SCUM!

[Debi]

3. I belive that we would do better running against the FAR RIGHT Vander P

Rather than the 'no, really, I'm a moderate' lying scumbag Nussle.

Just MHO.

[IA_Seth]

5. I agree!

I am hoping that VP is the one to run against our yet-to-be-known candidate.

What I am REALLY hoping for is a battle to out "right" each other so they can show Iowa their true colors.

[CornField]

9. You know what we need to do?

We need to come up with state statistics and then force Nussle to answer based on real figures. For instance, the last figure I read was that the average food stamp disbursement in Iowa was $72 per month. We need to make the comparison... on a monthly basis, an Iraqi civilian receives X amount of aid while folks here in Iowa receive an average of X amount per month in food stamps... Mr. Nussle, since you voted for these items and then voted to cut food stamp disbursement, will you please tell us why you believe Iraqi people are more deserving of aid than Iowa families in poverty?

We can do the same with every statistic out there, but we need figures on a local level. Why? Because when Joe Blow hears the government is cutting $4 million from a $25 billion dollar program, Joe can't really comprehend what that means to people on the end of the food chain. Without it becoming a local issue, Joe finds it easy to say "Well, the money was needed to rebuild Louisiana" or whatever.

What we need to make clear to Iowa voters is that the government, while speading money on the war in Iraq and giving aid to other countries, is making cuts which affect the most vulnerable Americans (and Iowans).

What Iowans need to know is that the energy bill which recently passed through the US Congress contained billions of dollars to aid oil companies -- companies which were already bringing in billions in profits, all on the backs of America's working poor.

I agree that we can easily paint Nussle as an anti-woman candidate. I'm saying that I think he is something more sinister -- an anti-person candidate, anti-humane candidate, anti-Iowa candidate. What he has done is not so different from the fellow who took the family's last milk cow to market and sold it for a handful of magic beans. Problem is, I'm not seeing any magic bean stalks shooting up around the state. Nussle is the fairy tale candidate and Iowans, especially our family farmers and working poor, deserve a heavy dose of reality.

[Debi]

12. He's taking food, health care and child support from Iowans

and turing it in to trust fund deposits for the wealthy. THAT'S what he's doing. While our poor sit in unheated apartments with barely enough food to eat his wealthy friends are dining on lobster aboard their fancy yachts. He's a piece of shit.

But the rich are the one's who can give him money, all the poor can do is vote. That's why we need to vote.

[CornField]

14. I'm not at all disagreeing with you

What I am doing is offering a point of attack.

It's one thing to stand at a campaign stop and chant that he's a piece of shit. It's quite another to force him to answer a question with real-life figures. (Because he can't do it without proving that he is a piece of shit.)

[Debi]

15. Oh, I wasn't arguing with you...I was just reiterating how I felt

(and agreeing with you).

Anything we can do to make him acknowledge his misdeeds is good for us and BAD for him.

(Are you sure I can't chat Piece of Shit outside his pressers????)

[mlanggin]

11. ...no nussle blog

no nussle blog

He's cutting farm subsidies, federal student aid...and all the while, changing house rules to allow budget language changes OUTSIDE of the review process...all in the name of tax cuts for the most wealthy...

...cut the corn jim

[Debi]

13. 100% correct. Nussle is screwing Iowa to keep his contributors happy

And he wants to be our Governor...:scared: