DISQUS

ellie · 5 months ago

"skedul/even workinWKEND."

Is he a Senator or a teenager? Please.

Catdance, I couldn't agree more.

Oval12345678 · 5 months ago

Senator Charles Grassley (R- HMO) has a lot of nerve accepting free socialized health care from the Federal government.

GaLiberal · 5 months ago

Too bad you are completely clueless about federal healthcare programs. It isn't free and it isn't "socialized." Do the research before you run your mouth.

MNUSA · 5 months ago

I think Oval was being facetious.

Bleu Demon · 5 months ago

I love Twitter-it removes all filters between Republicans and the idiotic things that pop into their brains-how long until someone claims they mistwittered?

GoBlue · 5 months ago

What did Grassley do for the cause of health care reform when Clinton was president? What has he done since? Yeah, I thought so.

GaLiberal · 5 months ago

Grassley highlights what is really wrong with Congress; congressmen that don't know their job. President Obama is well within his rights to set the agenda (healthcare reform) and the due date. It is Grassley's job to put together the package. If Grassley doesn't want to do his job, then he should resign and quit blaming others for his failure. I think this is just a smokescreen for him and his Republican cohorts to drag their feet and obstruct the will of the majority. It is good when Republicans openly expose their hypocrisy for everyone to see and read. I hope Grassley keeps them tweets a-comin'.

JosephP · 5 months ago

It's a shocking thing for thinking people to realize that we have Senators in the U.S Congress that really believe the talking points that are echoing about. I suppose I was hoping for a less damning (but still bad) conclusion that those politicians were just giving lip service to these ridiculous talking points but were secretly laughing at the gullibility of the public in taking them seriously. But the cluelessness of many Rebublicans evidently goes right to the top.

This talking point that Obama is overspending tax money on site seeing trips to New York and Paris seems crazy with respect to George W. Bush's excessive vacations to his Texas ranch (three times the distance from Washington, D.C. as New York City, and the most time spent on vacation of any president). And remember Bush's victory landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln, where he expended expensive military support costs for a needless flight in a Viking fighter plane just so he could strut around in a flight suit. He could have just taken a helicopter, as the ship was within sight of the San Diego coastline (the camera angles were carefully staged to conceal this).

catdance · 5 months ago

I'd like to thank whoever it was in the Republican Party who suggested that they should embrace Twitter.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 5 months ago

hmm... 'got nerve' to go sightseeing in Paris, while on a foreign relations tour.

but I suppose it was okay for bush to take five months off in his first year in the WH.

HereinDC · 5 months ago

Saturday is a weekend, right? Wasn't President Obama at the D-Day Ceremonies Saturday June 6th?

mtiffany · 5 months ago

Actually for the GOP the weekend is Friday through Monday. Remember the three-day Congressional workweek when the GOP controlled Congress? Of course Grassley's cranky. He may not have to do anything to earn his government paycheck, but he still has to show up. I can see that Republicans would find that burdensome and tedious.

Bryan J. Blumberg · 5 months ago

I got the impression that Obama actually was working long hard hours.

It was Republican Bush who took more vacation than any president in US history, and it was Republican McCain who expected to win the election, but still took a nap every afternoon as well as weekends off.

shell · 5 months ago

I'm sorry. I know the subject is serious. But I can't help but laugh at Grassley's "tweets." He tries so hard, yet is so lame. Just the misspellings is hysterical. Yes, I know you abbreviate some words, but look at what he wrote. Makes no sense. (And one time, he forgot to put "u" instead of "you.")

Bill Jenkins · 5 months ago

Obama's "bi-partisanship" is not real. He says those words without meaning them, and then people like this author believe that bi-partisanship means the republicans just following along with what Obama says.

Bi-partisanship is working together to come up with solutions both sides can agree on. And with a democrat majority Obama has that Bush didn't even get (soon to be 60 senators), he doesn't need it.

The author of this piece needs to focus elsewhere rather than whine about one guy in the minority party because he isn't in lockstep with the most socialist president in US history.

GaLiberal · 5 months ago

Bush talked a lot about "bipartisanship" and all he did was steam roll any opposition with a bunch of loyal Republican thugs and liars. President Obama is actually practing what he preaches even if it is to his determiment. People are demanding results, so what do the Republicans do? They drag their feet over the economy and healthcare. They whine these programs are costing too much, but offer no alternatives except for more tax cuts. Yea, cut taxes to 0 and see what happenes. The Republicans under Bush wasted TRILLIONS on the unnecessary and reckless Iraq war that has ZERO return. I would much rather spend TRILLIONS on healthcare and save some lives and prevent crushing debt. Let's get our priorities straight here.

jane · 5 months ago

C'mon...its all about the schadenfreude......dance rethug pigs, dance.....

Jim Olson · 5 months ago

srsly, cld Sen Grassley not tweet?

mamazboy · 5 months ago

This doesn't sound like Grassley - "you got nerve"? "skedul"? "u sightseeing"? Sounds like somebody hipper impersonating that old fool.

henrythefifth · 5 months ago

Wow, George Will could write a book about how that single Grassley Tweet destroyed the English language as we know it!

Grassley iz 2 kewl for skewl!

Lynn Dee · 5 months ago

I'm waiting for Grassley to tweet: "Ur not tha boss of me, bho!"

MNUSA · 5 months ago

I would think the "family values" party would be supportive of President Obama spending some time with his family.

Someone should inform Sen. Grassley that Americans are working longer hours to make ends meet. Why should our representatives be any different?

xjn · 5 months ago

its funny, that sad sack had to wait until Obama was out of the country to start talking shit...