Iowa Senator Tom Harkin will not seek reelection in 2014

America's Party of Iowa ^ | January 26, 2013 | Staff

[EternalVigilance]

Wow. I figured they would have to carry the old communist out of the Senate feet first.

[Principled]

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)isn’t running in 2014.

[pepsionice]

If you went out to find Senators who retired in the 1980s...I suspect most would say the current environment is toxic and stressful. In the 1930s and 1940s....if you were a Senator...you’d take most afternoons off in the summer and attend baseball games. You might have put twelve hours of work in...in a normal week. Today? You get dragged out to do interviews with various news media groups and I doubt if you get more than six hours of sleep a night during the week.

[hal ogen]

Cry me a river. These individuals who become senators are very wealthy and usually corrupt on many levels. Maybe they’ll work themselves to death and do all of us a favor.

[VRWCarea51]

Those Iowa boys got plenty of guns. Must be he doesn’t want to be blamed when the storm troopers start “live fire” exercises. He’s gonna go hide when TSHTF

[fieldmarshaldj]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2982126/posts

Beat ya to the punch.

[EternalVigilance]

Dang. Didn’t show up in search.

Admin, could you remove this thread, please? It’s a dupe.

Thanks.

[Stosh]

At a minimum, all Democrat office holders should be expected to leave public office when their age exceeds their IQ - I’m glad to see Harkin at least is observing that dictum.

[CORedneck]

It will be good riddance but however, how much worse will the replacement be if a democrat. Look at what was Ted Kennedy’s seat. Now Liz Warren, the fake American Indian who IMHO will be much more worse than Teddy boy.

[listenhillary]

FR has a search?

I used to use google + FreeRepublic + the article. That doesn’t work anymore either.

[Exit148]

Best news of the day!

[EternalVigilance]

The Dem bench isn’t that deep here.

[Prospero]

hallelujah!

[Ole Okie]

Dung Heap Harkin is leaving?

Miracles never cease!

[Gay State Conservative]

Gee...I hope that Comrade Tom doesn't have some sort of exquisitely painful and universally fatal brain cancer or anything.That would break my friggin heart!

[taildragger]

Harkin, Rockerfeller, Levin and Chambis. A good start IMHO....

[reluctantwarrior]

Who is the youngest yet most Tea party right state rep or state senator that we can get behind on FR right now, today? I’m in Texas and I am willing to send money today to a tea party candidate that an Iowa tea party recommends.

[Gaffer]

I guess he's gonna retire now and reminisce about all those combat fighter missions he flew in Viet Nam..../s

Lying bag of pig squeeze.

[Gaffer]

Damned good thing...the effin RINO

[reluctantwarrior]

I just looked on the IOWA GOP site and US Rep Steve King looks pretty good, comments?