Irked Grassley Tweets Vacationing Obama, "You Got Nerve Sightseeing in Paris"

[bigtree]

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said that President Obama has "nerve" to tell lawmakers that "it's time to deliver" on a health care overhaul while he spent Saturday in Paris.

Grassley, the top Republican on the Finance Committee -- a key panel as Congress considers Obama's demand -- issued two angry text messages on Twitter on Sunday morning as the president wrapped up an overseas tour

Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to call on Congress to enact legislation to reform the health-care system.

Grassley responded by texting, "Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us 'time to deliver' on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND."

A short time later, Grassley sent, "Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said 'time to delivr on healthcare' When you are a 'hammer' u think evrything is NAIL I'm no NAIL."


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/07/irked_grassley_tweets_vacation.html?wprss=44

[malaise]

1. Did Grassley ever complain about all those Bush vacation days

I didn't know Obama was required to work on Saturdays and Sundays.
Did this all change on January 20th?

[XOKCowboy]

11. If it was Bush in Paris...

Grassley's little tweet would be lost in the news about the thousands protesting his presence, his latest gaffe or his latest "Bring 'Em On" speech. Of course Grassley'd also have been touting the BOLD vision Bush showed those pesky Europeans and Ayrabs.

Be thankful...

[malaise]

23. Good point

:hi:

[kestrel91316]

21. Them darkies don't GET no days off.

[Lorien]

24. Grassley gets a boatload of vacation days too

they all do.

[KittyWampus]

2. If Grassley's so freaking busy- why is he wasting time "tweeting"?

[rosesaylavee]

3. Sure, of course, why honor the veterans who gave their lives

at Omaha Beach? Saturday was only the 65th Anniversary of that historic event that saved humanity as we know it. Obama's not going would look odd as all the other leaders from that NATO alliance were in attendance.

Grassley, you are a dope.

[ejpoeta]

7. and how dare he do sightseeing while he's there!! at least he was there.

how many vacations did dumbass take!! on OUR dime!! but that was ok. that was just hunky dory. Obama has been working his ass off for how many months. he deserves to take a day and spend time with his family. i'll bet bush figured out a way for US to pay for his family to take a trip, while i am sure obama is footing the bill for his family to be there.

[rosesaylavee]

14. After the ceremonies President Obama went to

Notre Dame with his family late afternoon/early evening. Spent the latter part of the evening with his family at the embassy. Early this morning went to the Pompadou Center (sp?) and I believe he was leaving for DC right after that. So, some vacation of 12-15 hours.

Grassley is a dope. Wait, did I already say that??

[ejpoeta]

31. these guys are idiots. and they make me so sick!! when obama gets a ranch

and stays there even after some big calamity... then i might have something to say. give me a break!! when bush was on his numerous vacations, the response from these jerks was that he is always working even on vacation and that he always has access to what he would be doing at the white house. when did that change?? now all of a sudden he can't do anything unless he is at the white house and the president shouldn't be taking vacations.

[EFerrari]

42. He also spent three hours visiting wounded soldiers at a base in Germany, iirc. n/t

[rosesaylavee]

48. Crazy vacation fun right there.

I think Grassley needs to be called out for his callousness toward and disregard of our veterans... past and present.

What a dope.

[EFerrari]

51. Handing out Purple Hearts - every European vacation should come with that.

[rfranklin]

29. ACtually, almost two years of vacation...

George Bush spent more than a quarter of his tenure on vacation? That inluded 879 days in Crawford, which required more than 77 trips at a cost of about $262,000 per trip (that's the minimum cost for the trip in the big airplane) for a total of approximately $17,400,000. Of course, we should not forget that on August 6, 2001, a CIA officer warned George Bush that "bin Laden is determined to attack in the U.S." probably with airline hijackings. George's response...another month of vacation!

[EFerrari]

45. I myself have always been grateful for every vacation day George Bush took.

The alternative would have been much more dangerous.

[ejpoeta]

55. personally, i think the guy was on vacation even when he was working.

i think of 'office space' and peter, who confessed to the bobs that he only did about ten minutes of actual work a day. sounds about right for ol' dubya... who probably never did a day of actual work in his life!

[donco6]

4. So, now they want Obama to write the plan?

Because, I'm sure he'd love to. But he probably thinks it's Congress' job, SINCE IT CLEARLY IS.

[peacebird]

5. Senator Grassley is trying to look "relevent" - the aides who did the tweeting

should have realized that a Senator should - even while tweeting - spell correctly.

Who else here doubts that Grassley does his own tweets?

[EFerrari]

6. This has to be a joke.

Grassley?

LOL

[CoffeeCat]

12. That's what I thought...

It's written in netspeak...with the abbreviations, etc.

I doubt Chuck Grassley knows netspeak. Hell, I'm on FB, Twitter (and here!) and I don't
even know it!

It will be interesting to see what my very own Senator Grassley has to say about this...

[rosesaylavee]

15. Maybe call his office in the morning and ask him?

What a goof. And how unpatriotic that he didn't want Obama to honor the veterans.

[bigtree]

32. it's him - it's his tweeting style

from Politico in March: http://themodernmajorgeneral.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/politico-covers-chuck-grassleys-twittering/


At first blush, the irascible, frugal, cranky — take your pick — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) doesn’t seem the type who gladly suffers lobbyists. Recently, upon disagreeing with a Grocery Manufacturers Association lobbyist, the senator wrote a scathing letter about the lobbyist and mailed it directly to the guy’s boss.

However, all that aside, he Twittered — it pains us to say it — in the wee hours of Friday morning: “Attention Ia legislative business lobbyists: I visit w many Repbli can REPs and Sntors. Don’t take ur frends 4granted.U spend all time w Dem.”

[EFerrari]

41. LOl! Yeah, right. There's probably an intern somewhere laughing her @ss off.

[anigbrowl]

33. That was what I thought, but apparently not. Here's a suggestion...

If you're on Twitter, look up his stream and add something in the same spirit, like 'LOL dignity fail'. I find it hilarious that one of the 100 most powerful people in the country thinks the key to success is to imitate a pissy 13 year old.

Mind you, I can't help hoping for '@Grassley LOL I trolled u xxx Preznit'.

[Cha]

8. Wouldn't it be amazing if

the republicans had something to add and a legitimate whine?

[MADem]

9. Let's follow the asshole. Anytime he does anything that's not work related, let's rip him.

"You've got some nerve golfing at the Army-Navy club."

"You've got some nerve having drinks at Hawk n Dove."

"You've got some nerve having dinner at Citronelle Restaurant."

Speaking of hammers and nails...what a fucking tool.

[PretzelWarrior]

10. it this is real, then Grassley and GOP don't realize tech doesn't mean bad abbreviations

seriously, I hope this is a prank or something. Well, actually I don't. But the GOP should. So typing on Twitter means you have to type like a 6th grader?

"Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us 'time to deliver' on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND."

[ErinBerin84]

13. tweet-whining is so passive aggressive

[mitchum]

16. Fuk u, senA2R

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. Twitter was invented so Republicans could wryt w/o bean laffed @.

[mitchum]

18. Nicely done!

[BlooInBloo]

19. *Who*?

[DinahMoeHum]

20. Twitter Twaddle

n/t

[BeyondGeography]

22. Obama refuses to be a miserable human being

which does anger a lot of miserable Americans.

[lamp_shade]

25. If he's smart he'll apologize... quickly.

[graywarrior]

26. And the hits just keep on coming!

It's like the devil makes them say these things. I love it.

[bluestateguy]

27. Are they going to allow him any down time at all?

Will he need their permission every time he takes a few hours off? Will he have to reimburse the government every time his wife and kids come aboard AF1? I don't recall that standard being applied to any president in the past.

I'm starting to wonder if this is subtle race thing: can't have the black president enjoying too much bling bling in the White House, you know. I don't ever recall the Republicans even beating up on Clinton for him taking vacations or off days.

[malaise]

54. Ding ding

We have a winner

[Skinner]

28. omg

hw cld prz BHO go2 Frnce tht h8 usa thn tlk bad abowt usa?!!11 pwn3d! xo, Zen. Grazzlee

[bigtree]

34. oh shit

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

43. Job wntd: frmr Grazlee intrn.

lol

[Trocadero]

30. Grassely, drunk on a Sunday morning. Disgraceful.

[ecstatic]

35. Grassley is acting like a child

who SHOULD be told what to do. Tweeting and using kid's lingo to complain about doing the job people elected him to do!? What a jackass! GROW UP!

[Captain Hilts]

36. Tough shit. Was he ever upset with all the trips to the 'Praire Chapel'????

[Trocadero]

37. Um, it's his daughter's 8th birthday...

[TahitiNut]

46. Yup. Happy Birthday, Sasha!!!

[CTyankee]

38. Might I remind you, Senator, that GW Bush was ON vacation and STAYED on vacation

when he received, and ignored, the PDB saying that OSL was "determined to strike in the U.S."?

Maybe this is a joke. Is it a joke?

If not then Sen. Grassley has got to be the STUPIDEST Senator in the entire U.S. Senate...

[pepperbear]

39. "Bush, u got sum nerve playing gtr and campaigning while a mjr US cty drowns" n/t

[Sal Minella]

40. I've heard Grassley on Iowa Public Radio laboring to put coherent sentences together

during interviews and sry, but I simply do not believe he wrote those tweets. Sounds NOTHING like his style.

Maybe the guy who used to read a hundred books a year for *W* is now writing tweets for Grassley.

[zbdent]

44. and Gingrich tweeted from his research trip in a Nazi Death camp

(hmm, Gingrich ... isn't that Germanic?)

He was there to get pointers on what to do with non-whites ...

[47of74]

47. Those of us here in Iowa...

...are just sooooo proud of Chuck!

[MrScorpio]

49. I've seen rappers on Twitter tweeting with much better English

Grassley must have been plastered at the time

[jwirr]

50. Grass-ass as soon as you make a reasonable statement about

all the vacation time *ss spent during his administration THEN you can say something about a good man taking his family out to see Paris during his free time between working events.

You bunch of pugs are just jealous that none of you have a real family life.

[That Is Quite Enough]

52. Obama is the hammer, and the Republicans are the anvil.

"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil." French proverb, I believe. And the Angry Sniper's motto. Not quite the same thing as a nail, but I still like it.

[foxfeet]

53. "Grassley: Kiss my Presidential Ass"l

Short and sweet and within the limit for number of characters.

[Psychic Consortium]

56. He is not just sight-seeing, he is repairing the damage caused by Bush.

Obama honors other countries when he visits, by seeing
the cultural, historical and religious sights.