McCarthy Demonstrates Damaging Hyper Partisanship

In yet another example of his extreme hyper partisanship Iowa House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy attacked Representative Christopher Rants for suggesting that making it cheaper and easier for businesses to replace flood damaged or outdated equipment would help businesses recover from the flood and make them more productive and profitable. McCarthy's own failure, in his ever going quest for higher taxes, to adopt the federal standards for business equipment depreciation will cost flood damaged businesses millions. Apparently Rants pointing that out has caused McCarthy to fly into a sputtering partisan rage.

This should come as no surprise as his temper and vindictiveness have often been on display at the Capitol. Verbally abusing widowed grandmothers until they have to be escorted, sobbing, out of the Iowa House chamber and withholding aid from deaf and blind children in order to punish the legislators who represent the districts in which those children live are but two examples of his leadership style.

By blindly attacking this modest proposal to help Iowa businesses get back on their feet McCarthy has once again shown he finds it more important to engage in partisan confrontation than to seek solutions to the very real problems of Iowans.

Vote November 4, 2008

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