Grassley warns Obama not to attack Republicans tonight

[sabra]

Source: QCTimes

Hours before President Barack Obama is to give a high-stakes health care speech tonight, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, warned him to steer clear of attacking Republicans.

On a conference call with Iowa reporters this morning, Grassley said Obama was elected to "lead this effort."

"It would be a mistake tonight for the president to blame Republicans for not going along with legislation that puts the government in charge of health care and adds to the deficit," he said.

Grassley is one of three Republicans in a group of six who are trying to come up with a bi-partisan health care reform bill.

Read more: http://www.qctimes.com/news/national/article_396810c0-9d60-11de-9c24-001cc4c002e0.html

[polichick]

1. Well, I'll give them this - Republicans have balls. nt

[polpilot]

61. 'First to-nite, to everyone who enjoys Medicare & Medicaid..thank a Democrat

Thank the Democratic President Johnson who fought the Republicans to get you your healthcare..Thank a Democrat'.That would be a good opening.

[Blandocyte]

66. And some sort of brain disorder

:evilgrin:

[Bleacher Creature]

2. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Who cares. Grassley is only relevant because jackasses like Max Baucus made him relevant.

[cliffordu]

3. I hope grassley gets heartburn and hemmorhoids

And a rash

What a fucking asshole.

[TheCoxwain]

37. and a particularly nasty case of 'Flatulence'..

Oops ! .. he suffers from that already ! ... just happens to be at the wrong end!

[WCGreen]

4. Fuck this ass hole...

What is he going to do, not favor any presidential initiatives.

Well, isn't that what they are already doing?

[Howardx]

34. i like "grasshole"

it fits.

[meegbear]

5. Better watch out of they won't vote for any of his bills ...

:eyes:

[Beetwasher]

6. Or What?? They'll Vote No On His Legislation??? They'll Call Him A Commie???

They'll question his citizenship??? They've already gotten as viciously nutty as I've ever seen and they'd never vote for any Dem legislation anyway. They've played their hand, they got nuthin' but crazy. Are they going to get MORE crazy?? Cool. I'm' down to see that.

[Cha]

30. They won't let their kids hear his speech on Education

in the public school system? hmmmmm.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Or else what? n/t

[Journeyman]

8. With us or against us, Grassley -- that's the operative phrase, isn't it?. . .

[Jennicut]

9. Will Grassley be using Twitter tonight? It might provide some entertainment later on.

Of course, tweeting while the President gives a speech is kind of rude but Grassley has show he is a piece of crap.

[d_b]

10. no worries, grass

I'm sure he won't say a peep.

[Cha]

32. We'll see what the fuck

he says.

[Iowa]

51. Yep... the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

What Obama should do is apologize to the nation for allowing something as important as health care reform to languish in the hands of a lightweight like Grassley and his ilk for the sake of some naive, bullshit, Pollyannaish notion he has about "bipartisanship". And then he should proceed to rip out Grassley's throat in front of a national TV audience. And in the spirit of the bipartisanship he likes so much, he should then proceed to excoriate Max Baucus for being the corrupt man he is.

But he won't. A lightweight like Grassley wouldn't dare to issue such a condescending command on the eve of such a speech if Obama had it in him to stand up and fight the good fight. But who knows? Maybe Obama will make a 180 degree turn and cast off his Caspar Milquetoast persona for this one speech. Anything is possible, I guess. I'm expecting a lot of smooth rhetoric with either a wimpy endorsement of the public option, or perhaps even a stern lecture to progressives to back off. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, but maybe he'll surprise us. We'll see.

[dipsydoodle]

11. Oh Lord.....

[sabrina 1]

12. Why would he need to attack them?

All he has to do is tell the truth about them. They work for the Insurance Industry and their job is to to prevent any reform that provides access to decent healthcare for all Americans because that would cut into the profits of his bosses. There's no attack there, just the simple truth.

[progressivebydesign]

57. bingo, Sabrina! Truer words have never been written here. n/t

[mac56]

62. Like Harry Truman said, "I don't give the Republicans hell...

I tell the truth about them, and they think it's hell."

[sabrina 1]

65. How things have changed. Van Jones told the truth

about them and he was forced to resign. There is no spine in DC, or maybe it's worse than that. They are on board with everything we thought they were against and just needed a majority to get things done.

[fascisthunter]

13. he doesn't need to... you make yourselves more irrelevent everyday

by opening up your yaps.

[monmouth]

14. Grassley and Saxby...I have no words..honestly....n/t

[MurrayDelph]

46. I have PLENTY of words

but I am typing this at work, so I shouldn't use them on the company network.

[Kahuna]

15. Really, Chuckles. I'm sure that the Pres is shaking in his boots.

NOT!

[myrna minx]

16. Or what? He won't vote for the bill he's already vowed he won't vote for?

:crazy:

[Mr. Sparkle]

17. ah diddums, corporatist Chuck Grassley must be feeling a bit "delicate" at the moment.

it must be from all the cash the healthcare industry is throwing into his back pocket.

[Hawkeye-X]

18. Or what?

You'll have your insane rabid reichwingers come after Obama, thinning the GOP gene pool significantly?

[liberal N proud]

19. The nerve of these assholes

Warning the President that he had better not this and better not that.

Fuck them, they lost, they can suck on it.

[PearliePoo2]

20. Well...well....the rat bastards sure are into issuing orders lately

Grassley says don't you dare attack Repukes and Chambliss says Obama must show humility.
Message to RePukes....fuck you and the elephant you rode in on. (apologies to elephants that are getting used here.)

[Texano78704]

21. All the more reason to go for the throat

Republicans know they are the ropes. Their only hope is for Obama to throw in the towel over the public option.

[peace frog]

22. Just for that

Obama should tear the GOPers a new one. Dictate this, asshole!

[joeycola]

23. the wars add to the deficit also. Any concern about these wars Mr. G?

[damntexdem]

24. And when exactly did he warn Republics not to attack Obama?

I'd like to see Obama whack the Republics hard.

[harun]

25. I would like Obama to tell the truth about the Repukes and attack them aggresively.

[roody]

26. We should only add to the deficit with WAR spending.

[bemildred]

27. He sounds scared witless. nt

[Cass]

28. ROFLMAO

Grassley warns Obama not to tell the public that republicans are being hypocritical obstructionist assholes! And if he does rat them out, they'll show him by not voting for his socialist death panels!


:rofl:

[Cha]

29. Republicons are full of shit...that's all they do is whine and

act like pissy little victims.

Fucking cowards.

[Enrique]

31. Grassley should run for president

then he can give speeches that are nice to Republicans.

[Froward69]

33. FUCK YOU grASSley

I hope President Obama draws and quarters them tonight.

grassley is one of the hypocrites who will vote no on anything President Obama proposes.

He has NO business warning the president of the United States against offending his delicate sensibilities.

[Blue For You]

35. "Grass"ley is a weed that needs trimming with the Obamamower.

[depakid]

36. He'd be a fool not to go after them in general

and Grassley in particular for his lies over the summer.

[Javaman]

38. grassley is one amusing toad.

I hope obama comes out on the first sentence of his speech with, "if it weren't for the republicans being obstructionists for 60+ years..."

[CKennedy16]

39. Grassley? Alright, there's gotta be a shrub joke here somwhere.

[quiet.american]

40. Amidst his arrogance, Grassley still can't help lying.

"It would be a mistake tonight for the president to blame Republicans for not going along with legislation that puts the government in charge of health care and adds to the deficit," he said.

Lies. Lies. Lies.

[Triana]

41. Someone needs to inform that arrogant schmuck that REPUBLICANS are in the damned minority

right now - and to STFU.

WHO ASKED YA, ya self-important nincompoop?

[Zorra]

42. No, Senator Grinchley, it is the veritable truth that Republicans are rejecting a public option.

And therefore, the President can righteously blame republicans for doing so.

[rocktivity]

43. It might PROVE to be amistake (for THEM)

but it certainly wouldn't be an inaccuracy.


rocktivity

[BootinUp]

44. unfluckinbelieveable, lol. nt

[Overseas]

45. Cuz golly gee, Chuck's been so good to you with his Pull the Plug on Grandma stuff.

Wouldn't want to offend him now, would we?

Republicans only had 12 years to fix our cruel, broken, Pay-to-Play healthcare system that left over 40,000,000 of our fellow citizens uninsured, and let millions more go bankrupt from medical bills and didn't do it.

But no no no-- don't blame them.

Appeasement feels so much better to them.

Never mind the 77% of us that want a public option. Kiss up to the guys who said NO NO NO.

[Kingofalldems]

47. "I'm warning you!"---------Larry Fine

[BootinUp]

53. lol nt

[bamacrat]

48. Fine don't attack, but point out who has spread all the lies and fears.

Explain to them how lying about what a government option would mean and scaring people who would benefit from a govt option is cruel immoral and above all unAmerican. What's best for the most is beat for the country, when the least are benefitted at the cost of the many we all suffer.

[RobinA]

49. By My Understanding

of the english language, This:

"'It would be a mistake tonight for the president to blame Republicans for not going along with legislation that puts the government in charge of health care and adds to the deficit,' he said."

makes no sense. I thought the Repubs were making it a selling point that they are blocking legislation that "puts government in charge of healthcare and adds to the deficit." Why suddenly do they not want to be associated with this stance? Of course, it may not be an accurate representation of the legislation, but that IS their oft-stated position, is it not?

[jeffbr]

50. (Nov 08) Grassley warns Obama not to win election

[dae]

52. What a sackless Fuktard! What he really means is, "don't yo'

be talkin' bout yo betters Boy".
Repubs, born with one ball and one brain cell.

[Bluzmann57]

54. I AM SICK OF THAT SONOFABITCH

Grassley that is. I am an Iowan and he certainly does not represent me. Nobody I know has enough money to be represented by him. He is up for re-election next year and there will be a lot of people working against him, including me.
Please excuse the caps in the subject line, but I can't take much more of that fool. The only time he should be in the media is if he utters those two magic words, "I quit". A guy can dream can't he?
On edit-I had a ltte published in the QC Times today. Subject was the RWers losing their collective minds. I just noticed the OP was from the QC Times, my hometown newspaper.

[aikanae]

55. What a CHICKEN. If the shoe fits - wear it!

I have not yet heard or seen a Republican that is actually proud of what they do or don't do.

Obama's biggest failing is his "looking forward" stance and not holding people accountable for obvious lies and errors. I thought he was being a diplomat at first, but he's staging his own hanging by not calling them on their bull. They did the same with Clinton. They will eventually find SOMETHING and SOMEWAY to get him. Obama can't even order a hamburger or give a speech to school children without someone on the right complaining loudly.

He has got to start holding people accountable.

[progressivebydesign]

56. Yeah.. fuck you Grassley. You have no problem calling the President names..

and your henchman have said and done the most vile things, and yet YOU warn him not to be mean to republicans? We're not mean enough, asshole.

[Doctor_J]

58. He's too timid to attack. Grassley is just rubbing our noses in the fact

that Obama is weak and, after tonight, irrelevant

[ima_sinnic]

59. beat me to it. The chance of repukes being "attacked" is zero.

Esp. after Grassley has said this. Obama must be rewriting right now, striving not to "offend" any of those delicate widdle repukes he loves so much. It must be hard to keep up with their ever-changing demands.

[Doctor_J]

60. They're going to lambast his speech anyway. It's painful to see him cower

from these fucking sociopaths.

[sendero]

63. Why would he worry?

Obama isn't going to say jack squat about Republicans.

[TankLV]

64. Well - I guess THAT suggestion went over well...

NOT!!!

HA!

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