How 'bout That Iowa Caucus

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Monday's Democratic caucus was fraught with chaos as the Iowa Democratic Party delayed releasing official results due to widespread reporting problems amid new rules and a new app.

"We found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results," Mandy McClure, communications director for the state party, said in the statement. 

The lack of results on caucus night also drew complaints from campaigns. Candidates scrambled to take the stage and spin the non-results as victory in speeches to their supporters.

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Oh, . . . . No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o ! ! !  A Democrat voting disaster ! ! !  What could be worse ?

Oh, . . . wait a minute; . . . wait a minute; . . . 

DonDiego suggests the data may eventually turn up on the Clinton Server in Chappauua, New York; the interested reader should not be surprised if Hillary is eventually declared the winner of  the Iowa Caucus.

I heard it was won by Punxsutawney Phil.  He didn't see his shadow, caught a train car to Iowa for some quick campaining.

I think he did beat the mayor in an election one year, didn't he? 

It doesn't matter. One candidate or another will eventually win the nomination and go on to crush Trump like a grape.

You're using Trump-style hyperbole to describe the first day of the caucus as "a Democrat voting disaster." The real disaster is the impending Republican impeachment vote--a disaster for them, that is. 

Enjoy the last few months of Republican rule! Thanks to Trump and his lackeys, the Democratic Party will be in charge for the next fifty years. And they'll do horrible things from the liberal agenda like making people's lives better and taking care of the environment! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

(There is plenty of Fox News propaganda about which candidate they want to win the nomination, but it really doesn't matter insofar as deleting the Orange Asshole from office is concerned. For the next eight years and beyond, they can go back to whining about the Democratic President and spreading idiotic conspiracy theories such as that Barack Obama is a space alien from the planet Dweemo.)

He's way too smart to get involved. Though I have this mental image of Phil and Trump on the debate stage, chattering at one another. Phil would crush him.

What I want to do is smoosh all of them up and create one candidate named LizPeteJoeBernie. Then we can dispense with the preliminaries and get on with the main event. 

I don't know what role Bloomberg will wind up playing, but perhaps he should offer to buy the Presidency from Trump. Trump's always looking for a deal, and his time in the White House detracts from his golf game anyway.

He would also have to pay for his own Super Bowl party next year--last Sunday's cost taxpayers $3.4 million.

Hopefully it will be the last caucus in Iowa ever.    With any luck everywhere else too!     Looking like my main man, Pete Booty-call my be the winner but who knows, right?    Even if the votes are tabulated correctly they aren't really votes - they're some kind of number derived from some subset of people who have nothing better to do with their time then spend 6 hours at gymnasium yelling at each other.

Oh, and thanks for making my day, DonDiego !   A Trump disciple joking about how Democrats manipulate elections.  Thats priceless.

Well, it is a voting disaster  and thats regardless of the difficulties with  tabulation.      Caucuses are almost as undemocratic as the electoral college.  Almost.

The real disaster is in the White House sitting with his pecker in his hand like a five year old. (sorry 5 year olds)

Yeah, dude, you just insulted five-year-olds everywhere. Trump is more like a toddler, holding his dick in his hand and wondering what it's for.

PJ Stroh writes: "Oh, and thanks for making my day, DonDiego !   A Trump disciple joking about how Democrats manipulate elections.  Thats priceless."

Goodness !  Poor old DonDiego has, indeed, voted for President Trump, . . . one time.

That hardly justfies the term "Trump disciple" as applicable to DonDiego.  This is especially true when the alternative was an untrustworthy, dishonest, conniving harridan.

In fact, poor old DonDiego has never pledged himself to any individual.

Rather he subscribes to a philosophy of less-intrusive government generally and, especially, much more prudence  (i) in Government intrusion into its citizens' lives and (ii) in taxing and spending of the citizens' wealth - especially through redistribution.

In short: "That Government is Best, Which Governs Least."  

That's a standard conservative trope. It's also very wrong.

We have examples. There are regions and nations on Earth where there is, in fact, little or no government. Those places, without exception, are dangerous hellholes. By conservative mantras, they should be paradises. Conversely, the nations of Western Europe have extensive and powerful governments. They are, collectively, the richest region on Earth and have the highest quality of life. By conservative mantras, life there should be miserable.

What conservatives fail to understand is that there are some necessary societal functions that the private sector cannot adequately provide. This is due to factors such as market failure (example: health care) and failure to compensate for negative externalities (such as industrial pollution). Big Business is not a panacea, and we should not make all our decisions based on whether or not they're profitable. Maximized shareholder value should not be the primary aim of our society.

It's a shame that DonDiego's white-hot Hillary-hatred, for which we have never received an adequate explanation, drove him into the arms of Trump--a far, far worse human being than Hillary. Voting for Trump because you didn't like Hillary was like setting yourself on fire because the waiter forgot to bring you a salad fork.