I’ll take “because he’s an attention whore and really, kind of an asshole” for all the marbles:
In August, Grassley – who is up for re-election next year – heldtown halls
and constituent meetings in 30 counties. While the sessions never got
as raucous as they did in some other parts of the country, Grassley’s
constituents turned out by the thousands to tell him how little they
thought of his efforts back in Washington. One sign in the small town
of Adel read “Thank God Patrick Henry Did NotCompromise.”
Over the course of the recess, Grassley began sounding less like a
potential Obama ally and more like the enemy army. When the Iowa
Senator actually gave credence to the absurd notion that the House
version of the legislation might allow the government to decide when,
in his words, to “pull the plug on Grandma,” Democrats decided he was
past the point of any hope. And then came Grassley’s late-August coup
de grÂce, a campaign fundraising letter. “The simple truth is that I am
and always have been opposed to the Obama Administration’s plans to
nationalize health care,” Grassley wrote. “Period.”[snip]
Grassley believes the raucoustown meetings
of August made it clear that Obama now faces something far larger than
mere doubts about health-care reform. “I was expecting a lot of anger,
but what really surprised me about the town meetings was the fear that
people were expressing – afraid for the country.Health care
was a big issue, yes, and it took up most of the questions at the town
meetings. But it seemed to me it was the straw that broke the camel’s
back. People were bringing up the stimulus bill not doing any good and
[costing] $800 billion. Or theFederal Reserve
shoveling $2 trillion out of an airplane and not seeing it does any
good. And the nationalization of banks and [General Motors].”
And where would they have gotten crazy ideas like that, Chuckles? Certainly not from their elected officials or party mouthpieces, who will happily make the political booty call to the crazies every couple years but shove them back in the closet when it’s time to turn the cameras on, surely. Certainly not from their conservative media, who have been lauded at every turn as ballsy truth-tellers who are necessary to our democracy or some crap. I can’t imagine where those fears came from. You can’t CREATE something and then blame it for your actions. I mean, you can, I guess, if you’re a DOUCHEBAG.
The country is not in danger. The stimulus bill, aside from causing seriously annoying construction near my house, seems to be doing pretty well. Obama’s being about twice as big a puss on health care as most of the country would like him to be, and a few hundred nutballs are shrieking on the Internet, but by and large those of us who still have jobs are getting up every day and going to them and coming home and watching TV and eating burritos. That is all that is going on. Nobody’s in any danger aside from the economic ones health care for all will go a long fucking way to solving, so maybe not so much with the DRAMA. God. He’s a fucking teenager.
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