Rep. Tom Price (R- GA) visits Sioux City and Sioux Center today to help raise money for Iowa legislative candidates. Why is he in Iowa?

Why is a Congressman from Georgia coming to Sioux City to raise money? As the leading attack dog against the President’s healthcare summit which is only days away, doesn’t Price need to prepare even more attacks against President Obama?

Is it to hold a seminar for Iowa House Republicans on how to excel at putting the brakes on good legislation? Tom Price leads efforts in Washington to block expanding access to health insurance to thousands of Iowans, so he’s got some experience.

Is it to endorse Bob Vander Plaats for Governor, now that Chris Rants, the other Sioux City native, has dropped out?

Or, is it a quixotic foray into Presidential politics? This trip to Iowa comes just a few weeks after he wrote an op-ed in the Nashua Telegraph. If this is true, then the question should be this — does he really think he can cut into Mike Huckabee’s media coverage this week?

Perhaps his trip is for all of those reasons.

Rep. Tom Price of Georgia has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the last six years. He’s a registered Republican and a confirmed member of the “Party of No.”