Reply #1: What else did you expect?

[Broke Dad]

Nussle says Culver is throwing "mudballs" when Culver said we have to balance our budget in Iowa. Then Nussle takes a shot at Culver for wanting to raise teacher pay in Iowa to the national average. Nussle says, "Who wants to just be average?"

Mr. Nussle, why don't you ask your mossback Republican colleagues in the Iowa Legislature like Stewart Iverson and Chris Rants? They have fought Vilsack tooth and nail the last seven years to put all kinds of performance criteria on teacher pay raises AND then didn't fund the raises when teachers meet the criteria. On top of that, Nussle-baby if you had fully funded the federal share of special ed and No Child Left Behind, we would have enough money in Iowa to give our teachers a raise AND to lower our property taxes. Nussle is famous for his "earmarks" of funding for pet projects. Belly up to the pork barrel trough. why didn't you throw in an "earmark" or two for Iowa teachers in your sixteen years in Congress? Nussle could have increased funding for teacher pay and education in Iowa while he served in Congress, and he didn't lift a finger. . . Why should we believe that Nussle is suddenly concerned about teacher pay or education funding now?

Then Nussle wants to preach on the Gay Marriage Amendment and Parental Notification. As the pastor who wrote the column in the Saturday Des Moines Register said - the recognition of the love between two people of the same gender does nothing to make straight couples more or less likely to divorce or to stay married. Certainly no gay man or lesbian had anything to do with Nussle's extramarital affairs and divorce from his first wife, the mother of his special needs child. All anybody wants is somebody at home at the end of the day to give them a hug, to tell them that they love them and that no matter how bad today was, tomorrow will better. Why should the government care what the race or the gender is of the person who gives a hug at the end of the day?

Sixteen years of sucking up to Gingrich and Delay only leaves Nussle with the negative option . . .

I think Culver's campaign symbol should be a stick . . . for beating the truth into or out of Nussle!