Summary of Grassley horrible, horrible very bad week in Iowa

[rurallib]

Poor ol' Chuck is having a hard time denying what was caught on video.
Here is a very summary of poor Chuck's horrible, horrible very bad week in Iowa.
Remember that Chuck is showing real vulnerability in the polls:
http://www.blogforiowa.com/blog/_archives/2010/4/7/4499213.html
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The Des Moines Register:

A thistle to Sen. Chuck Grassley for wanting to have it every which way on health-care reform. First he worked as part of the Gang of Six to craft a bipartisan bill, and got plenty of his own provisions included. Not long after, he began railing against the bill and ultimately voted in lockstep with Republicans against it. Now Grassley is talking up all the good things he put in the law - a law he didn't help pass and worked to defeat. And Grassley's sudden conversion gives lie to the Republicans' plaint that they were frozen out of the process by Democrats.

Grassley's response to the Des Moines Register thistle

The Register's March 28 Thistle misses the point. I worked extensively to try to improve access to affordable health care without expanding the size and influence of the federal government.

Unfortunately, not even the Grassley measures kept in the bill, and there were a number of them, will save taxpayers from the massive debt and unfunded liabilities that will result from the new health care law.

Your thistle also implies that the only way to get things done is partisan, which is a poor reflection on the Register.
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[opihimoimoi]

1. His mis adventures into the Land of Hypocracy does not bode well for good DEMOCRACY

Grassely is of Negative Polarity along with the rest of the GOP....absence of Clarity and Sanity

He will die a thousand mental cuts as time fleet through this stage of his...

The GOP is infected with flawed plans and agendas....

They will lose this NOV

[rurallib]

2. They have a lot of damaging videos out there to explain

Old Chuck sure ain't doing a very good job.

[opihimoimoi]

3. His story covering his ass ani't worth shit...the Sheeple can spot crap from 20 kilos

Wait till his peeps find out they been had by him and the GOP...they will come for his ass with pitch forks and torches

[Frustratedlady]

4. He has passed his period of usefulness.

He sealed his fate when he gave the speech about pulling the plug on Grandma.

I say, "Pull the plug on Grassley, and put him out to pasture."

I know I won't vote for him again.

[quiet.american]

5. And Grassley still slings B.S. and lies even while accusing his truth-telling constituent of lying.

It's hard not to barf reading Grassley's apparently Fox News-approved rebuttal:

Grassley: "I write to let Tim O'Brien of Fayette (regarding his March 30 letter) know that I support prohibiting insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions. I spent most of last year trying to put together a bill that would set strong rules and regulations for private insurance, including banning annual and lifetime limits and not allowing insurers to cancel a policy once you get sick.

The effort for a bipartisan bill to achieve this reform and others with broad-based support was derailed by those who wanted to push through a $2.6 trillion health care bill (LIE) that includes the biggest expansion of Medicaid in history, creates two new entitlement programs with the false promise that it can be funded by more than $500 billion in Medicare cuts and more than $500 billion in tax increases. (LIE. CBO concluded otherwise.)

The Medicare cuts address Medicare's needs despite its fiscal troubles. The tax increases are job killers.(LIE - oh, and speaking of job killers - Republicans voted a couple months ago AGAINST legislation that would have created thousands of summer jobs for teens) And the bill's financing is riddled with budget gimmicks that mean more government spending than supporters admit today. (LIE.)

Separately, I never spoke of death panels. (LIE.) I gave Iowans information about unintended consequences with government health care programs when they are forced to ration care.("In other words, I LIED.") I'm committed to informed dialogue and straight talk as part of the process of representative government. (LOL!) That includes identifying a false statement like the one made in Mr. O'Brien's letter." (WRAPS IT ALL UP WITH REQUISITE SMEAR ATTEMPT.)

[unhappycamper]

6. I would love to see Grassley and King shown the door.

Both are republican douchebags. (I grew up in Sioux City which is why I know of these two.)