Teflon's Accomplishments in 2015...to date......

[joelbc1]

Iowa Govenator Terry "Teflon" Branstad, Iowa's Governor for Life, has had quite a year this year. The successor to Chet "the big lug" Culver ran on his previous record of following the mantra of the Iowa Farm Bureau to the letter and his admonition of "the Big Lug" that the role of government is not to choose 'WINNERS AND LOSERS."
Since the ending of the Iowa Iowa Legislature session, Teflon has decided that Iowa move its administration of its MedicAid program from state administration to the private sector. Iowa's administrative costs for this program typically ran 4-6% annually. By contract, the "private administrators" will garner anywhere from 12-16% of the slightly more than $4B. The budget for MedicAid recipients will not increase.....the added administrative costs will be made....by denying services for mental health and physical health programs for Iowa's poorest, most indigent and mentally impaired citizens.
Then, Teflon decided the bipartisan compromise worked out by the Iowa Legislature was not in his interests, so he (with no prior warning) line item vetoed the compromise from the new budget. This loss of funds will result in fewer teachers and lower wages and a further compromised education system for Iowa's youth.
Teflon, not happy he had done enough to undermine the state's education system, decided to subterfuge the U of I faculty and designed an unusual, at best unique, search methodology in his search for a new President. He lined the ducks up, allowed favoritism and a endorsed a flawed system to accomplish his goal.
Now, Teflon has decided he can write and enact tax legislation without the help of the General Assmbly. He has decided to cut $46M from the state's coffers by rewriting the state's tax code on its manufacturers with NO debate or referendum of the citizens of the State.
And the people of Iowa say nothing. No outrage. No anger. No indignance. I understand Teflon is immensely popular. But does Iowa have a democratically elected government or does it endorse a dictatorship? God knows the reaction if the big lug would have done anything even close to approaching this.
One also understands why back in the day, Iowa went to holding its Governor's elections in "off year" periods of time when voter turn-outs are lower.

 

[THE_DEVIL]

Three months after vetoing education funding, Governor seeks to unilaterally give $37 million on-going tax cut to big corporations

 

[hawkeye54545]

I assumed this thread was going to be about Hillary. Barnstsad qualifies as well. The problem with the voting public is we refuse to take chances or try something new. It is either vote the same person on repeatedly like Barnstsad, Harkin or Grassley or the same family like Bush and Clinton.

 

[22*43*51]

Iowa Govenator Terry "Teflon" Branstad, Iowa's Governor for Life, has had quite a year this year. The successor to Chet "the big lug" Culver ran on his previous record of following the mantra of the Iowa Farm Bureau to the letter and his admonition of "the Big Lug" that the role of government is not to choose 'WINNERS AND LOSERS."
Since the ending of the Iowa Iowa Legislature session, Teflon has decided that Iowa move its administration of its MedicAid program from state administration to the private sector. Iowa's administrative costs for this program typically ran 4-6% annually. By contract, the "private administrators" will garner anywhere from 12-16% of the slightly more than $4B. The budget for MedicAid recipients will not increase.....the added administrative costs will be made....by denying services for mental health and physical health programs for Iowa's poorest, most indigent and mentally impaired citizens.
Then, Teflon decided the bipartisan compromise worked out by the Iowa Legislature was not in his interests, so he (with no prior warning) line item vetoed the compromise from the new budget. This loss of funds will result in fewer teachers and lower wages and a further compromised education system for Iowa's youth.
Teflon, not happy he had done enough to undermine the state's education system, decided to subterfuge the U of I faculty and designed an unusual, at best unique, search methodology in his search for a new President. He lined the ducks up, allowed favoritism and a endorsed a flawed system to accomplish his goal.
Now, Teflon has decided he can write and enact tax legislation without the help of the General Assmbly. He has decided to cut $46M from the state's coffers by rewriting the state's tax code on its manufacturers with NO debate or referendum of the citizens of the State.
And the people of Iowa say nothing. No outrage. No anger. No indignance. I understand Teflon is immensely popular. But does Iowa have a democratically elected government or does it endorse a dictatorship? God knows the reaction if the big lug would have done anything even close to approaching this.
One also understands why back in the day, Iowa went to holding its Governor's elections in "off year" periods of time when voter turn-outs are lower.

That is some good work right there.

You also forgot the raise in gas taxes to address infrastructure.

He's doing the job he was elected to do.(yet again) So why would there be outrage?

 

[sijoint]

Iowa Govenator Terry "Teflon" Branstad, Iowa's Governor for Life, has had quite a year this year. The successor to Chet "the big lug" Culver ran on his previous record of following the mantra of the Iowa Farm Bureau to the letter and his admonition of "the Big Lug" that the role of government is not to choose 'WINNERS AND LOSERS."
Since the ending of the Iowa Iowa Legislature session, Teflon has decided that Iowa move its administration of its MedicAid program from state administration to the private sector. Iowa's administrative costs for this program typically ran 4-6% annually. By contract, the "private administrators" will garner anywhere from 12-16% of the slightly more than $4B. The budget for MedicAid recipients will not increase.....the added administrative costs will be made....by denying services for mental health and physical health programs for Iowa's poorest, most indigent and mentally impaired citizens.

Then, Teflon decided the bipartisan compromise worked out by the Iowa Legislature was not in his interests, so he (with no prior warning) line item vetoed the compromise from the new budget. This loss of funds will result in fewer teachers and lower wages and a further compromised education system for Iowa's youth.
Teflon, not happy he had done enough to undermine the state's education system, decided to subterfuge the U of I faculty and designed an unusual, at best unique, search methodology in his search for a new President. He lined the ducks up, allowed favoritism and a endorsed a flawed system to accomplish his goal.
Now, Teflon has decided he can write and enact tax legislation without the help of the General Assmbly. He has decided to cut $46M from the state's coffers by rewriting the state's tax code on its manufacturers with NO debate or referendum of the citizens of the State.
And the people of Iowa say nothing. No outrage. No anger. No indignance. I understand Teflon is immensely popular. But does Iowa have a democratically elected government or does it endorse a dictatorship? God knows the reaction if the big lug would have done anything even close to approaching this.
One also understands why back in the day, Iowa went to holding its Governor's elections in "off year" periods of time when voter turn-outs are lower.

Sounds like something

That is some good work right there.

You also forgot the raise in gas taxes to address infrastructure.

He's doing the job he was elected to do.(yet again) So why would there be outrage?

Yeah, at the national level it looks like even a bigger problem. One political party happy/allowing for the changes that Obama promised.....and solidly behind the way/methods he's used to accomplish the changes .....using dictatorial action......executive orders.......sidestepping the legislative process,
ignoring the Constitution......ignoring the rule of law....demeaning the opposition party, lying, showing racial favortism......using federal agencies to spy on the opposing party members....the list is getting soooooooo long.....gotta stop, it could go on forever.
Stop complaining----live with it, it's the newest thing(change) that Obama has implemented.

 

[joelbc1]

That is some good work right there.

You also forgot the raise in gas taxes to address infrastructure.

He's doing the job he was elected to do.(yet again) So why would there be outrage?

22...the gasoline tax was PASSED by the Legislature and sent to his desk for signature......,.,It was not mandated like my examples.

 

[hawkeye54545]

Joel is it fair to assume you are also angry with how Obama gets things passed?

 

[joelbc1]

Joel is it fair to assume you are also angry with how Obama gets things passed?

At least Obama TRIES the political process. At least Obama tries to get the Congress involved l,egislatively. In the cases I mentioned, the Governor has acted completely on his own without consultation with the legislative branch. To me there is a HUGE difference between Obama and Teflon. It has to do with "approach". Obama's approach seems much more customary and much less high handed.
If you folks who oppose Obama think he is condesending and arrogant in how he treats Congress.....honestly, how would you describe Branstad and how he treats the Iowa people by completely circumventing the legislative process in spending MILLIONS of dollars? Be hionest, please.

 

[22*43*51]

22...the gasoline tax was PASSED by the Legislature and sent to his desk for signature.......

Isn't that how it is supposed to happen?

I would assume if he had done anything illegal he would be being held accountable.(sound like a familiar argument?)

 

[hawkeye54545]

At least Obama TRIES the political process. At least Obama tries to get the Congress involved l,egislatively. In the cases I mentioned, the Governor has acted completely on his own without consultation with the legislative branch. To me there is a HUGE difference between Obama and Teflon. It has to do with "approach". Obama's approach seems much more customary and much less high handed.
If you folks who oppose Obama think he is condesending and arrogant in how he treats Congress.....honestly, how would you describe Branstad and how he treats the Iowa people by completely circumventing the legislative process in spending MILLIONS of dollars? Be hionest, please.

I'm not the person who should be defending Branstad because in no way am I a fan. The way his son was protected during his drunken driving issue disgusts me.

However, I don't see how you can rail on him without railing on Obama. That's very Huey Grey of you. For what it's worth, I don't like when any politician acts like an emporer.

 

[timinatoria]

Joel's going to get a cease and desist letter from DuPont.





DuPont's Teflon does not want to go the way of Hoover - C&D's Swedish bloggers for speaking Swedish.


By Dabitch on 17 Mar 2008, 13:12
This is all getting a little silly.

Dupont has been sending out cease and desist letters to Swedish bloggers who have the domains Teflonminne.org and now Teflonminne.se - in the latter link you can read PDF's from Dupont linked at the bottom of his post (see Hotbrevet, Bilaga 1, Bilaga 2.) All links are in Swedish only.

Dupont are simply defending their trademarked name "Teflon", something Hoover should have done before it became a term simply meaning "to vacuum" in the UK, and in Swedish the trademarked named "Jeep" is now synonymous with SUV, so any car that has SUV qualities is called a Jeep even if it's a Honda.

Obviously, Dupont don't want this to happen, and the way some trademark laws sound it seems you have to at least make a show of defending your trademark in order to keep your trademark so one could gather that the vaguely formulated C&D is really just for show. However, Teflon became a registered trademark in Sweden as late as in 1999, while the word "teflonminne" meaning "scatterbrain", "featherhead", or plain "confused" as it symbolizes nothing sticking to your memory has been used in colloquial Swedish for much longer than that and even the dictionary explains that common usage includes describing stuff that nothing sticks on as in "teflon politician".

Not sure how their trademark-defending case will go, but I know this for certain - C&D'ing Joe-blogger to give up their rights of their domains is buying Dupont and "teflon" a boatload of bad publicity in Sweden.


Read more at http://adland.tv/content/duponts-te...bloggers-speaking-swedish#ZC5Labmq3X5IJZpo.99

 

[joelbc1]

Isn't that how it is supposed to happen?

I would assume if he had done anything illegal he would be being held accountable.(sound like a familiar argument?)

Yes it is....How are your reading comp skills, 22? The other actions I mentioned (repeal the education funding compromise, the tax credit to manufacturers, the "privitization of MedicAid (and re0distribution of administrative fees) and the methodology of choosing the states' most pre-eminant college President were all done without consultation with the legislature and done strictly by personal fife. That IS not how things are done.
Yet those who piss and moan more loudly when these things happen nationally, say nothing when one of their own does the same thing. Teflon treats Iowa as a dictator treats a third country.

 

[lucas80]

He's managed to stay to his milquetoast roots and refused to go after Planned Parenthood, thus raising the ire of professional bomb thrower Bob VanderPlaats.
Which is what always tickles me about Branstad. He is so middle of the road he infuriates conservatives, but, he panders to them and romances them every four years into believing he's one of them. All Branstad cares about is making sure Branstad gets re-elected. If he's still alive in a decade I'm sure he'll throw his hat in the ring again.

 

[22*43*51]

Yes it is....How are your reading comp skills, 22? The other actions I mentioned (repeal the education funding compromise, the tax credit to manufacturers, the "privitization of MedicAid (and re0distribution of administrative fees) and the methodology of choosing the states' most pre-eminant college President were all done without consultation with the legislature and done strictly by personal fife. That IS not how things are done.
Yet those who piss and moan more loudly when these things happen nationally, say nothing when one of their own does the same thing. Teflon treats Iowa as a dictator treats a third country.

After six terms he is just following his mandate...

 

[22*43*51]

After six terms he is just following his mandate...

I love how Terry gets slammed by Dems for being "middle of the road".

 

[joelbc1]

I love how Terry gets slammed by Dems for being "middle of the road".

I would temper that assessment..Teflon has been at best, "middle of the road" if you are defining bad. I think Terry has been an ineffectual and divisive leader. However, I am tjhe first to admit he is immensely popular with Iowans. I would also add, that when Iowa went to electing governors in "off years" it was a huge boon to Teflon's ability to get re-elected by the majorities he has.
Terry knew well in advance that Vilsack and the Dems were going to nail him in '98..and that was on the eve of a huge GOP Congressional victory. Terry had worn out his welcome and he knew it. He decided he no longer wanted to be governor for life. He also knew he couldn't have beaten Culver in '06, so he chose to stay away.

 

[aflachawk]

Sounds like something


Yeah, at the national level it looks like even a bigger problem. One political party happy/allowing for the changes that Obama promised.....and solidly behind the way/methods he's used to accomplish the changes .....using dictatorial action......executive orders.......sidestepping the legislative process,
ignoring the Constitution......ignoring the rule of law....demeaning the opposition party, lying, showing racial favortism......using federal agencies to spy on the opposing party members....the list is getting soooooooo long.....gotta stop, it could go on forever.
Stop complaining----live with it, it's the newest thing(change) that Obama has implemented.

Well done It makes Terry look like a pretender to the professional in DC

 

[cigaretteman]

Don't forget that he unilaterally chose to close the mental health facilities in Mount Pleasant and Clarinda as well this year.

 

[joelbc1]

I'm not the person who should be defending Branstad because in no way am I a fan. The way his son was protected during his drunken driving issue disgusts me.

However, I don't see how you can rail on him without railing on Obama. That's very Huey Grey of you. For what it's worth, I don't like when any politician acts like an emporer.

I couldgive a rats ass about Terry's son. That was personal and not political. I just really find it interesting that many here who support Teflon and his action's say nothing as he disregards Iowa's long embraced legislative principles. However, these same folks go out of there way to criticize any Dem of any capacity who would do anything even slightly resembling Teflon's actions.