Iowa
Related: About this forum"Iowa's lead paper: 'There are invertebrates that have shown more spine than Sen. Charles Grassley'"
from dailykos: 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 (my bolding & italics)
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 its nothing to get worked up about.
In fact, the senators spokeswoman, Beth Levine, says the issue of judicial vacancies is a manufactured crisis.
On Trump's racism:
Grassley didnt seem at all perturbed by Trumps 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.
I think they used to like Chuckles.
Gothmog
(154,535 posts)rurallib
(63,200 posts)So far he has been invaluable to the effort.
keep it up, Chuck
47of74
(18,470 posts)The Teabagger Herald I think still loves the guy.