True Blue - Senator Grassley of Iowa

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Jim Kunstler's latest article...

Years ago, President Nixon nominated a legal nonentity named G. Harold Carswell for a seat on the supreme court. Derided by the newspaper columnists as "mediocre," Carswell was defended by a conservative Nebraska senator, Roman Hruska, who said, memorably: "There are a lot of mediocre people in America who ought to be represented."

Now Hruska has been reincarnated in Senator Charles ("Chuck") Grassley of Iowa, who said the following a few days ago:
"You know what? What makes our economy grow is energy. And Americans are used to going to the gas tank (sic), and when they put that hose in their, uh, tank, and when I do it, I wanna get gas out of it. And when I turn the light switch on, I want the lights to go on, and I don't want somebody to tell me I gotta change my way of living to satisfy them. Because this is America, and this is something we've worked our way into, and the American people are entitled to it, and if we're going improve (sic) our standard of living, you have to consume more energy."

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2005/11/true_blue.html

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1. O we're so proud of this guy here.

Can't beat him either because he always seems to have billions of dollars for his re-election campaigns. A true bugger. Luckily we also have Harkin. How come being in the Senate seems to be a life appointment for Repugs but not for Dems, by the way?