No Tax Debate Wednesday?

Will Iowa Democrats in the house take up the federal deductibility Wednesday? It's been the daily question this week at the Iowa Statehouse. Tuesday, Council Bluffs Rep. Paul Shomshor said his fellow Democrats would pass the bill this week. The tax bill has been on the daily debate calendar several times now, only to see Democrats not take it up.

Ed Failor, Jr., President of Iowans for Tax Relief, said if Democrats really do have the votes, they are breaking what he calls "Legislator 101". He said when a party has the votes to pass a controversial bill, "you run it." So far, no running in the house. An earlier email sent Tuesday morning from house Democrats includes the tax bill on Wednesday's daily debate calendar. But an email sent late Tuesday night entitled "On Tap Tomorrow" does not include anything about the tax bill. Stay tuned...

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It looks like the "Goateed Guru" is about to get a little more face time. MSNBC is reportedly putting together a weekend political show for NBC's Chuck Todd.

Des Moines hosts one of 10 tea parties in Iowa Wednesday a.m. at the Iowa Statehouse.

Iowans Hope in Government

Saturday, several hundred Iowans tea partied to protest that their government is overstepping its bounds and spending too much money (more specifically, the Democrats in charge of the federal and state governments.) Sunday seems like a theme of hope in so many ways. For Christians, Easter Sunday is likely the most hopeful day of the year. Barack Obama used the campaign message of hope throughout. But Iowans, according to a new poll in the Easter Sunday edition of the Des Moines Register, don't seem to have all that much hope in the President's signature issue so far, his economic stimulus package. Nearly 70% of Iowans, according to the poll, are skeptical. That's more than two out of three Iowans with doubts about trillions of dollars in spending. At one point will that show of hope need to be stronger so that voters don't lose hope in Iowa Democratic candidates next year at the poll?

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I heard the country song "Commitment" by LeAnn Rimes on the radio today. Would that song be ironic for a married singer who's now been busted by the tabloids for cheating on her husband with her television co-star? Maybe the word, commitment, had a different meaning to her when she sang it at 16.