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With more news that the field of 2010 gubernatorial candidates is narrowing, it seems prudent to take a moment to review what next year’s race against Culver might look like.

You will not find the word “lobbying” in most of the other media reports of this story, but that’s essentially what former U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle (R-Manchester) is now doing.
The congressman-turned-failed gubernatorial candidate, who headed former President George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget at the end of his second term, has founded The [...]

Iowa Republicans have proposed that the state sell (or lease) the Iowa Lottery to IPERS, the state’s public employee retirement fund.
In part, the proposal is meant to give the GOP a foothold in 2010, when they will claim that any possible plan to lease the lottery to private interests was a result of massive campaign [...]

The trial balloons floated last week touting White House Budget chief and former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle as a possible candidate for Republican National Committee chair seem to be rising. Nussle’s chief competition seems to be former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
“As a Republican House member from Iowa, (Nussle) was part of the Gingrich transition team [...]

Could Jim Nussle do for the Republican National Committee what he couldn’t do as a candidate for governor–lead his party to victory?

Comparing the situation at Agriprocessors with novelist Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” and implying that management at the kosher plant have opted to travel a ‘low road,’ Gov. Chet Culver outlined his response and continued action in relation to the plant.

Election-year politics has taken center stage on the Hill in D.C. as the House prepares to do battle with the White House over the Iraq war funding bill. In the battle between the legislative and executive branches, the Democrats have switched tactics.

Last year Democratic leaders tried to tack on timelines for troop withdrawal to several [...]

(Commentary) Generally speaking, padding your resume with the title of director of the White House Office of Management and Budget would be considered a vertical move for political climbers. Jumping aboard President Bush’s S.S. Lame Duck, however, may have dire political consequences for former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle, who was officially sworn in as Bush’s [...]

(Updated Presidential Candidate Roll Call: None of the presidential candidates serving in the Senate voted “yeah” to confirm Jim Nussle for White House director of the OMB, which is not too surprising, when considering only two of the six candidates actually voted. Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Hillary Clinton, D-NY, were the only candidates present [...]

When the Senate returns from August recess today, it’s expected to vote on the nomination of former Iowa Congressman Jim Nussle to direct the White House Office of Management and Budget. In yesterday’s Huffington Post, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., penned a column stating his case against Nussle’s nomination, which “has much less to do with [...]