The only thing I know him from is Howard Dean’s famous gaffe. “Not only are we going to New Hampshire, Tom Harkin...”
Good firetrucking riddance.
Iowa wouldn’t vote him out.
Praises for his retirement and may it be short.
Good. He was a liar anyway, saying he flew around Vietnam, I believe...then exposed as a liar.
Most Democrats get away with lying, (see: Bill Clinton) or sodomizing their staff (see: Gerry Studds), or even killing someone (see: Ted Kennedy).
Such behavior is celebrated by the perverted left.
Yes!!! Since Missouri does not have a Senate race this time, my Tea Party group is eager to get involved in this race and help "the right candidate".
IF ANYONE HAS ANY IOWA TEA PARTY CONTACTS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Excellent, he’s so irritating.
Why do I have the feeling that obama has hand picked the replacement during the past four years?
Funny, just as all his political dreams come true.
Harkin can safely retire knowing socialism is now in the driver’s seat and there is no longer that much need for his services. I would imagine he will anoint his own successor.
May he have a short-lived retirement.
Harkin has been a fake Vietnam veteran; a supporter of Viet Cong propagandist Don Luce (Con Son Island “tiger cages” hoax); a strong supporter of the marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua (along with Kerry and Chris Dodd); big on unilateral disarmament; and generally against America as a leader of the Free World.
He has the distinction of being one of the top 10 members of Congress who could be charged with Treason.
Stay on his ass until he physically leaves Congress. Tell the truth about him so that he can’t write his own leftist version of history.
Some good information on Harkin’s communist support activities can be found at www.keywiki.org, “www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org” and in Steve Powell’s masterful study of the Marxist “Institute for Policy Studies”, entitled “Covert Cadre”, 1986. among other sources.
Take back the truth!
It’s one great thing this lying phony who voted for every bad idea along his prog way is getting out. Too bad we pay his retirement for having hurt this country so much.
Vilsak is the name that comes to mind for the Dems.
Vilsak has been resurrected into a big deal as AG secretary.
I would tend to doubt a Republican’s ability to win against Vilsak.
I have an open mind as to GOP prospects, but Iowa statewide political history has made me skeptical.
Hmmm, this wouldn’t by any chance have anything to do with the heat the old crook is feeling over the scandal about his wife being a lobbyist for Herbalife and his support of legislation that helps them out, would it? Nah, how could I think such a thing about our self-sacrificing public servants?
“These men (in government), in point of fact, are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers. Their purpose, first, last and all the time, is to promote their private advantage, and to that end, and that end alone, they exercise all the vast powers that are in their hands...” ~ H.L. Mencken
This is good news. One less sleazebag on Capitol Hill.