What is the deal w/ Chuck Grassley?

[Orangeutan]

Why is this guy such a turd? As chair of the judiciary committee, why is he doing everything he can to support blatant obstruction of justice? He's 84 years old and just won reelection. Is he worried about the next election, five years hence?

[Abouttime]

1. A dumb farmer

Like Devin Nunes from California a farmer in way over his head.
How in the hell did a stupid dirt farmer from the hick state of Iowa rise to the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee?

[Frustratedlady]

6. I take offense at your remarks about farmers and Iowa.

Farmers are not dumb and Iowa is not a hick state. A farmer's responsibility to his land and animals is tantamount and requires a great amount of sensible and responsible decision-making. A great amount of money is at risk each year and, particularly so with climate change.

I will agree that Grassley has been doing a poor job with this investigation, but don't lump farmers and Iowa into his wrongdoing.

[TeapotInATempest]

8. +1000

That type is rhetoric is not only incorrect and unhelpful, but works against us at the polls.

[Dave Starsky]

9. There are unbelievably stupid people in every line of work.

I've known PhDs and, yes, medical doctors who are so dumb, it's amazing they can even breathe. You always wonder how in the hell they ever made it where they are in life. Almost always, the answer is family money.

[rainin]

27. Ben Carson

for example. Dumb medical doctor. Just sayin'.

[Dave Starsky]

39. I don't know if he started out dumb...

or if what we're seeing is the result of years of taking prescriptions from his own pad. I suspect it's a bit of both.

[rurallib]

17. Besides that, Chuck is only a farmer in passing

having been as he himself said "sucking at the government teat" since 1959 or nearly 60 years.

Nope, Chuck is a person who knows how to exploit the system to max out "contributions" while playing the down home neighbor at home. In short he is about the ultimate phony with only old Chuck as his main concern.

[Frustratedlady]

18. I agree, totally.

Isn't he grooming his grandson for his job? I thought I read that a year or so ago.

I wonder what his true worth is?

[rurallib]

21. Let us just say that grandson Pat has been working on following Grandpa's footsteps

Much speculation that when Grandpa finally becomes a farmer, Pat will be ready to pickup the nameplate that says "Senator Grassley."

Pat is a state rep currently. Grandpa is pushing for Pat to be Iowa's new secretary of Agriculture when Northey moves on. Having a statewide office like that would burnish them creds for a statewide US senate race in 2022.

BTW - even though Grassley isn't really a farmer, he does pick up a nice little subsidy check, as does his son and grandson:
https://farm.ewg.org/addrsearch.php?search_input_text=grassley

Subsidy Total
1995-2014
1 Robin Grassley New Hartford, IA 50660 $ 985,072.27
2 Charles E Grassley Arlington, VA 22202 $ 338,203.47
3 Patrick Grassley New Hartford, IA 50660 $ 20,873.85

Edit to add:
As far as senators go, Grassley is relatively poor. According to http://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/net-worth?cid=N00001758&year=2016
Grassley has about $3.5 million.

[Frustratedlady]

24. Wow! Robin isn't doing too badly, either.

I'm sure Chuck has consistently kept those subsidies as high and regular as he could, which would enhance his senator's salary. Too bad he isn't as generous to the rest of us.

I'd love to be relatively poor. I wouldn't even be greedy...say, $1M? <grin>

[bluestarone]

30. exactually this type of shit

is whats wrong with this country the way i look at it

[Bettie]

19. Yeah, he loves to talk about small government

but he sure likes it big enough to keep him rich and not having to work too hard.

[Orangeutan]

15. My father is a Kansas farmer

He's a brilliant man in many respects having to do with mechanics and jerry-rigging practical, homemade solutions to the everyday problems that arise on a farm, using the tools at your disposal like some Midwestern MacGyver. But he's incredibly uninformed when it comes to politics. For instance, when I complained about Trump stepping all over the Hatch Act, he countered that it was improper for Obama to speak at campaign rallies for Hillary. I pointed out that Obama was the leader of the Democratic Party and it is a matter of course for every sitting president to campaign for his party's nominee to succeed him.

[mnmoderatedem]

29. do you enjoy eating per chance?

if so, thank those stupid dirt farmers from my home hick state of Iowa.

[Abouttime]

40. Seriously?

Iowa grows mainly corn and soybeans. Iowa is #1 in the world for animal confinement agriculture.
Corn and soybeans are used for feed for confined animals, what's left over is used to make highly subsidized, inefficient fossil fuels, the confined animals go into processed fast food.
Iowa is a living embodiment of everything wrong with modern agriculture and the harm we are doing to our planet, in other words the place is toxic. The soil is ruined from a century of monoculture, the air reeks of animal waste which they pour right back onto the soil, the water is the most polluted in the nation and the people are the most overweight and unhealthy in the entire world. Why anyone would want to live there is beyond me.

[Scruffy1]

32. he was never a farmer.

Chuck Grassley has survived by being aligned with the Insurance Companies and bankers. If you are in Iowa you will never see anything bad about him in the newspapers or on radio or TV. After all they can't afford to piss off the banks or insurance companies.

[SharonClark]

37. Wow! You don"t know much about famers or Iowa. What state are you from?

[Turbineguy]

2. Chuckie got new orders from

Vlad.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. And money.

He's a lame duck, he can afford to sell out.

Back at the beginning, he was fine with looking for the evidence.
Now that so much of it has been found, he sings a different tune.
Only money or scandal would make someone like him change his mind.

IMHO, of course.

[riversedge]

3. He has a vindictive personality, just like Trump.

[DURHAM D]

5. This

plus senility.

[OnDoutside]

4. I can only think he's trying to hold the line for the Reps. By slowing/stopping any investigation

through his committee, it puts off the day when Donnie comes down. All the senior ReThugs must be incensed that at a point where they control all 3 branches of Government, they've got nothing done. The other possibility is they are trying to hide the Russian money their campaigns got.

[GeorgeGist]

7. He's a Republican. eom

[oberliner]

10. Pretty standard Republican

Doing pretty standard Republican things.

[JI7]

11. Old white guy like general kelly are trumps base

They sympathizewith his bigotry

[Bleacher Creature]

12. He's a cranky old white guy from Iowa.

I'm only surprised that he's not more of a jerk.

[Bettie]

20. Oh, he's a giant jerk

of course, given how much the dickhead bar has been raised lately...

[Bleacher Creature]

22. Well, at least he hasn't attacked any grieving widows (at least that I know about).

Not sure it's physically possible to move the bar any lower.

[Bettie]

23. Yeah, he can also

put together a coherent sentence every so often.

And he knows where every Dairy Queen in Iowa is (really, that was one of his campaign ads).

The fact is, he thinks he's a king. He's even declared that when he retires, his grandson will be his successor.

[Azathoth]

13. Chuck "pull the plug on granny" Grassley has been a disgrace forever nt

[bobbieinok]

14. I remember when he was first elected

(Ancient times)

He ran on a platform of fighting gross over-spending in the Pentagon...reported
$300+ screwdrivers, etc.

IIRC he was a reasonable Republican untill mid to late 90s when GOP became ever more right-wing. I saw him then repeating one of their talking points on tv; he looked very uncomfortable. At the time I thought it was a case of 'go along to get along.'

When he 1st ran for senate, my now ex said he would win 'because he sounds like Will Rogers.'

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Same here,

as you have said,he does sound like the ah shucks type. And that sells in the Upper Midwest. We used to call Chuckie,the Senator from Phizer.

[Scruffy1]

33. I forgot that.

Between the drug companies, bankers, and insurance companies he has it made..

[Wellstone ruled]

35. Chuckie aranged for Millions to

build a Tropical Rain Forest on the Iowa U Campus,this was to be a Phizer Research Facility. To this day,don't know if it ever happened. Do know the Local AM Radio Station was having a real interesting time with it.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

26. Just look at him - CONSTIPATION! n/m

[dlk]

28. Does Grassley Have Alzheimer's?

[Sneederbunk]

31. Doturd?

[Scruffy1]

34. My sisiters in Iowa call him Schmuck Assley.

but his will rogers like talk is good enough to fool the voters.

[blueinredohio]

36. He's always been an ass will die an ass

[Tatiana]

38. He is protecting his buddy McConnell.

He knows the Party of Traitors will lose everything they've worked so hard to steal if the truth of their actions ever sees the light of day.

[peggysue2]

41. Why is Grassley acting squirrely?

He's a Republican. They're up to their eyeballs in the Trumpster's muck. Dark money from foreign donors flowed through the party's coffers. They knew it, they willingly invited the donors in, jumped on the train then stuffed their weasel pockets because . . . ?

Well according to Paul Ryan this morning, he keeps himself calm through meditation, his repeating mantra--tax reform, tax reform, tax reform. Behind the podium, he actually tipped his head back, spread his arms, hands posed in a meditative gesture. And then chuckled because Paul Ryan is such a funny guy.

We're going to hear plenty of excuses from those involved, directly and indirectly. Guaranteed circling of the wagons.

[oasis]

42. Grassley is a two faced, forked tongued abomination. nt