Donald Kaul Nails it again!!!!

[HuskiesHowls]

For those of you old enough to remember Over The Coffee, in the Des Moines Register years ago, Donald Kaul is still writing. And, he's his usual smart-aleck self...but almost always right on target. He did it again!!!

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"(I’ve known Sen. Grassley ever since he was the youngest member of the Iowa Legislature and I always thought he was smarter than he looked. I was wrong.) "
THE GREAT MERGER: REPUBLICANS AND LOBBYISTS – by Donald Kaul
http://www.minutemanmedia.org/BB%20KAUL%20082609.htm

For those of you who don't remember him, he was a regular columnist when the Register was a good paper. He and John Karras worked together to start what has become a tradition--The Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa.

[Hardrada]

1. The Register was a good paper before Gannett ruined it

and Kaul was someone I always read (and went to hear on various occasions).
DMR went down the tubes about 1989.

[IADEMO2004]

2. A friend made my day a few years ago finding Kaul on the web.

The day I read the Register editorial stating they were going to concentrate on the "GOLDEN CIRCLE" ended any cash flow from my "brown around" checking account.

[Hardrada]

3. I wrote to Geneva Overholser (then an editor of the DMR)

and quoted the poem about those who would "draw a circle to
shut me out." I then quoted the rest of the poem, "But Love and I
had the wit to win./We drew a circle to take them in."