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On this weekend's episode of Iowa Press, as if it were a normal, natural, perfectly reasonable thing, Iowa Press moderator Kay Henderson opened the show this way: "Bob Vander Plaats and his Family Leader organization still wield power and influence among conservative Christians in Iowa. We'll sit down and talk politics with him on this…

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Tweak it first. mr. vander platts has done it a very good job of making it seem like he matters. like hes the key to winning iowa. fox news calls him a kingmaker. and this kingmaker this year chose rick santorum. so yay, mr. santorum. and oh, yeah, mr. vander platts would like some money from rick santorum. the des moines register saying havent vander platts had asked for money in promoting the endorsement sxwe said hed like to have the money to do television advertisements to promote his person...

Republican party. and at ames he came in second. he came in second only to michele bachmann. and maybe he came in second to michele bachmann because she served meat sundaes. mashed potatoes with brown gravy that looks like chocolate with a cherry tomato on top. how can you compete with that? all the debates and the paying for endorsements and carnivals and meat sundaes aside, this is all leading to january 3rd, right? but how democratic are the iowa caucuses? if you want to vote in the iowa cauc...

In 2008, hugely interesting year it swelled to 18%. contrast that with the new hampshire primary where in 2008, another year there was a lot of interest youre looking at like 70%. or you go down to south carolina, a state thats even smaller than iowa, but three times as many people participated in the republican primary in south carolina in 2008 as participated in the iowa caucuses in 2008. so its this really -- the demographics of the people who are there, 60% of the people who participated in ...

thats what it looks like. but the way that this has ended, the way that this total political disaster for the republicans has come about has given us really two things in american politics. it has shown us one interesting new thing about the democratic party and the way democratic politics are working right now. and it has raised one really important question about the republican party. first on the democratic side, the critique from some parts of the left, and not just from the left b...

of your paychecks starting january 1st. thats what it looks like. but the way that this has ended, the way that this total political disaster for the republicans has come about has given us really two things in american politics. it has shown us one interesting new thing about the democratic party and the way democratic politics are working right now. and it has raised one really important question about the republican party. first on the democratic side, the critique from some parts o...

the two-month band aid, the two-month extension that has already been passed by the senate. listen. >> our house gop negotiators are here and ready to work with their counterparts in the senate. >> hes not lucy, im not charlie brown. were not falling for that football stunt, again. okay, lucy and charlie brown. thats what weve come to now, kate. it can be silly season up there sometimes. but just getting more and more silly, it seems. so, is this just all for show and eventually what p...