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Hah, what an azz! He says he’s comfortable where he’s at yet he is a.) hiding from any and all reporters braying at his door, er, doors front and back!) b.) refuses to be seen in public at the Senate and uses every hallway where the press is banned in the building c.) won’t answer any constituent phone calls generated by virtually every Iowa newspaper and TV news site blasting him to smithereens for upchucking the Constitution in favor of a purely political play.
Sure…he’s real comfy!
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‘A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks the scorpion why, the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so.’
still a Republican… it’s their nature…
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“I’m here to do my job.”
Dammit. Anyone know where I can get irony meters in bulk? Mine keep breaking.
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Read the history of this absurd nasty man. There’s no garbage legislation he didn’t support.
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It is quite obvious why he and the other GOPers intend to violate the Constitution by not holding hearings on a nominee: The President is black.
All other reasons given are much less significant. That even includes the idea that they don’t want a “liberal” justice to tilt the court. Race trumps all for the GOP.
And now by failing to follow the Constitution, aren’t the GOPers essentially being treasonous? Assuming the GOPers continue to not “advise and consent” as specificed in the Constitution, does nothing else happen? Or is the Constitution just words with no consequences for failing to follow it?
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Unlikely? Why do you think he is the chairman? Because he is a wet rag that will do whatever McConnell wants him to do. The man is a craven hypocrite of the highest order.
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The “…consider the voice of the people…” crowd handily ignores the fact that the people already voiced their approval of Barack Obama to the tune of just south of sixty-six million. In the most recent elections, the aggregate “voice” for all eleven GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Commitee came up 1,366,326 votes shy of total votes for the nine Dem members. Sen. Grassley’s share of the “voice” in his last election tallied a whopping 718,215 corn-fed waddlers and insurance gamers. On the other hand, Sen. Feinstein barely eked out 7,784, 994 (about half the GOP SJC total) shouts from under-represented west coast citizens.
Voice of the people, indeed. Pull that cob out of your ass, Senator Grassley, and start doing the work of the People!
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“I’'m here to do my job.” says Grassley. Well that’s an easy thing to prove …
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I see TPM has finally hired some editors.
Posted version:
Grassley was always an unconventional pick
Original version:
Grassley was always an unconventional prick
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“Iowa farmer” my ass: Grassley has THREE university degrees, including a masters in education with minors in political science and psychology, and a PhD in political science from University of Iowa, was a college sessional lecturer in poli-sci for a time, started in career in electoral politics as an elected state rep in 1959, when he was all of 26, and he was first elected to the US Senate out of Iowa in 1980 - meaning, he’s been a US Senator for just over 35 years, that is: over half his adult life, has been a federally elected Congress rep for the last 41 years, that is, almost half his ENTIRE life, and been an elected politician for the last 57 years in a row - almost 90% of his adult life and almost 70% of his entire life.
He trained as a pol, he started early as a pol, he’s stuck with being a pol for parts of the last SEVEN decades, and he’s announced he’s running for re-election in November, which would take him into an EIGHTH decade of elected political office.
Farmer my ass.
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From what I hear, here in iowa, from republicans and democrats alike Grassley could become vulnerable on this issue if the Dems don’t blow the opportunity and nominate the wrong candidate.
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Charles “Obamacare’s gonna send your crippled granny to Auschwitz!” Grassley has always been a RW prick. Stop trying to make him some great pragmatic compromising moderate champion of the Republican Party. That’s almost as bad as those stupid, wretch-worthy articles on this site proclaiming batshit fuckwad Michele Fiore as the heroine of the Oregon militia standoff. It is an insult to the intelligence and political mindset of the readers of this site.
And I STILL say when Grassley speaks, he sounds just like the character of Buffalo Bill in the film, “Silence of the Lambs”.
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Maybe they meant ‘framer’.
Of something other than the constitution that is.
“Grassley’s approach to political friction has always appeared measured.”
To whom? The desperate fluffers and smoothers of the press corps? Grassley first hove into public view (my view, anyway) during the Clinton impeachment uproar. Note to L. Fox: it is really not obligatory to pretend to be a dupe.
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The “only a farmer” junk does not do justice to a chap who has been in partisan politics all his life. This piece does not cover Grassley’s toeing the standard Republican line of non-co-operation with this President. It is a fluff piece and not worthy of TPM.
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Chuck Grassley is like seaweed under water, as the water moves to and fro the seaweed goes "this way and then it goes “that way” and then it goes “this way” and then it goes “that way,” all based on the whims of his so-called base.
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Can we stop pretending that EVERYBODY in the GOP hasn’t been a mouth-breathing, insufferable SOB since the days of Newt. Who are these moderate, reasonable, conservatives that you speak of. Certainly not the thoughtful ones that followed W & Cheney down the rabbit hole, or the ones that gladly rode the tea-party wave to the majority and committee chairmanships…GTFOH
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Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and isn’t even a lawyer!
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