Essential Estrogen

It's so exciting that former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle has been tapped to take over as White House Budget Director! Now I can re-run my favorite ad from the Iowa gubernatorial race:

No doubt Nussle isn't walking out of Iowa so much as he is running from the torches and pitch forks of his fellow GOPers after he dubbed their Ames Straw Poll as "an American Idol style circus ...that is meaningless."

I do remember the good folks over the Iowa forum at Democratic Underground had a contest of sorts to guess the date when Nussle would high-tail it back to the beltway. I wonder if anyone thought he'd stick around this long?

And, if you want the real skinny on this development, better head over to Iowa Independent. Given Nussle's track record with our tax dollars, we can't stop alternating between fits of hysterical laughter and uncontrollable sobs long enough to post something serious.