Iowa's lead paper: 'There are invertebrates that have shown more spine than Sen. Charles Grassley'

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/8/1536064/-Iowa-s-lead-paper-There-are-invertebrates-that-have-shown-more-spine-than-Sen-Charles-Grassley


Iowa's lead paper: 'There are invertebrates that have shown more spine than Sen. Charles Grassley'
By Joan McCarter
Wednesday Jun 08, 2016 · 11:24 AM EST


The Des Moines Register is not happy with Iowa's senior Sen. Chuck Grassley, not one bit. Just check out the headline to this op-ed: "Grassley ignores judicial crisis and Trump's racism." On judicial emergencies created by longstanding court vacancies:

Grassley is in a position to fix it and ensure that criminal and civil cases are being heard on a timely basis. Unfortunately, he appears to have no interest in doing so and his staff argues it’s nothing to get worked up about.

In fact, the senator’s spokeswoman, Beth Levine, says the issue of judicial vacancies is “a manufactured crisis.”

On Trump's racism:

Grassley didn’t seem at all perturbed by Trump’s remarks about Judge Curiel, which have been widely denounced and described even by House Speaker Paul Ryan as the “textbook definition of a racist comment.”

The best Grassley could muster was this: “I would not say what Trump said.”

As Edmund Burke said, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. And when it comes to Donald Trump, there are invertebrates that have shown more spine than Sen. Charles Grassley.

Grassley stubbornly maintains that it's perfectly normal to block President Obama's nominees for basically ever in order for a potential President Trump to supplant them with his own. He just doesn't seem to grasp that there's a huge problem with both of these propositions for the folks back home. Maybe he'll get it by November.

[LonePirate]

1. No lies were told with that headline!

[Initech]

2. Next week in "People Who Somehow Got Elected"...

[rurallib]

3. posted this at almost the same time over in Iowa group

I am filled with hope that maybe we can finally get rid of this cancer on Iowa.

Looks right now like Grassley is doing all he can to defeat Grassley this round.

As James Carville once said "When your opponent is drowning throw him an anchor." I hope Patty Judge has a good supply of anchors and some good folks to help her throw them to Grassley

He is painted in a corner. If he gives Garland a hearing, then the repugs won't vote for him. If he keeps doing what he is doing no one but repugs will vote for him.

[angrychair]

4. Lol...Chuck don't care

Sitting members of Congress have a 91% re-election rate, despite Congress having some of the lowest approval ratings in history.

So, what do members of Congress and honey badgers have in common?
Neither gives a shit what you think.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Manufactured crisis manufactured by . . . . . GOPeers