Creasman for House

Iowa phones have been ringing with Nazi robocalls trying to use the murder of an Iowa woman, Mollie Tibbetts, to whip up more anti-immigrant hatred.  The message

suggests that were Tibbetts still alive, she would support killing all Mexican immigrants. The group calls for deporting all immigrants.

We shouldn’t be shocked.  Our own Rep. Steve King has been flirting with Nazis for some time.  Republicans favor the shameful policy of tearing children away from their parents to terrorize undocumented immigrants.  We have gotten to the point that Nazis think Iowa is fertile ground for an ideology that was discredited, and defeated, back in the 1940s.

We have to prove them wrong by turning out to vote in November.

I have been a social worker for 41 years.  For most of that time, my mission was to ensure the safety of children, many of whom needed protection from the worst kinds of abuse.  What is happening to children on our southern border, to be plain, is the worst kind of child abuse.

We know that tearing children away from their families is a deliberate Republican policy.  We know that the policy is so awful that the Trump administration has been lying about the policy they announce on the record, claiming that it doesn’t exist.  We know the children are being held in horrible conditions, in cages.  We know that every Democratic U.S. Senator has cosponsored a bill to end the practice, and that no Republican Senator has endorsed it.  And we know that a solid majority of rank and file Republicans are behind the policy.

It is shameful that in the 21st Century, we have sunk so low that we have to even discuss this:  harming children is wrong.  Doing it for political gain is even more wrong.  A political party that doesn’t reject this practice wholeheartedly, and impeach its authors, is more than just wrong.  They are permanently disqualified from serving in government.

We’ve said before that the Republican Party is the party of Trump.  Is that unfair, or painting with too broad a brush?  Nope.  That’s what Republicans themselves are saying.  Katie Arrington, who just defeated Mark Sanford in a Republican primary in South Carolina:

We are the party of Donald J. Trump….

John Boehner, former Speaker of the House:

There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump Party.

Senator Bob Corker (R-TN):

It’s not a good place for any party to end up with a cultlike situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of, purportedly, of the same party.

Corker talks about a cult of personality like it’s a bad thing.  Not that he’s done anything substantial to stop it, like, oh, vote against Trump’s policies.

So it’s Trump and Trump supporterrs all the way down, and if there’s shameless corruption at the top, the stink of it is on every Republican from Congress down to the Iowa statehouse.

So how about it, Iowa Republican Party?  Care to comment on the latest scandal from the White House, the flagrant self-dealing by Donald Trump’s fake charitable foundation?

[T]here’s quite a bit of evidence that the foundation was used as a piggy bank for Trump’s campaign – with Trump’s direct involvement – to the tune of $2.8 million.

“People have gone to prison for stuff like this, and if I were representing someone with facts like this, assuming the facts described in this petition are true, I would be very worried about an indictment,” Jenny Johnson Ware, a criminal tax attorney in Chicago, told the Times.

Anyone?  Any objection to tax evasion, or is that OK if Republicans do it?

Of course Republicans are attacking the articulate survivors of a mass shooting.  What choice do they have, an open debate based on facts?  Here’s a recent comment from Ted Nugent, NRA board member, Republican booster, and sexual predator:

The dumbing down of America is manifested in the culture deprivation of our academia that have taught these kids the lies, media that have prodded and encouraged and provided these kids lies. I really feel sorry for them because it’s not only ignorant and dangerously stupid, but it’s soulless. To attack the good law-abiding families of America when well known predictable murderers commit these horrors is deep in the category of soulless. These poor children, I’m afraid to say this and it hurts me to say this, but the evidence is irrefutable, they have no soul.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Republican Party.  When Ted Nugent is denounced by other Republicans for literally discounting the humanity of people who disagree with him, post the evidence here in the comments.  I won’t be holding my breath.

Today the March for Our Lives is taking place in cities all across the country.  Hundreds of thousands attended the Washington DC event to demand common sense reform of gun laws.

And this is incumbent Iowa Representative Matt Windschitl, whom you will not be surprised to learn is Republican, in a not at all creepy family portrait.  It would be entirely fair to say his legislative record represents the opposite idea.