Hawkeye Republican

RINO SIGHTING: Jim Leach, "R"-Iowa, is up to his usual tricks again. The same "Republican" who voted against the war in Iraq, voted against the Republican budget, and voted against repealing the death tax, examples of just a few of his more revealing votes, voted in favor of an amendment to weaken the Patriot Act. This was no regular old procedural matter, either. It was an amendment brought by Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed socialist from Vermont!

It raises the question of what's more baffling: That Iowa Republicans by-and-large still love Leach, or that Iowa City liberals still consider him part of the right-wing machine?