Senator says Obama 'got nerve' to push lawmakers

[Old Coot]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says that President Barack Obama "got nerve" to go sightseeing in Paris while telling lawmakers it's time to deliver on a health care overhaul.

Grassley, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, is key to any bipartisan health care deal. Using Twitter — the Internet-based social connection service allows users to send mass text messages called "tweets" — the Iowa Republican issued two angry "tweets" Sunday morning as the president wrapped up an overseas tour.

For months Obama had left the details of health care legislation to Congress, then inserted himself firmly into the debate in recent days, including using his weekly radio address Saturday to declare "it's time to deliver" on health reform.

Grassley's first tweet: "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: "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."

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gap9wCaolRYguYQesA2i2Yr98yLgD98LUSA01

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Grassley sounds like a horse's butt.

[NJmaverick]

1. So much for the rule that you don't attack the President while they are out of the Country

then again repukes don't follow any of the rules of civil society

[Abq_Sarah]

37. Uh, that rule went out the window

In the last decade.

[ashling]

50. Inhoffe already shattered that one

After the Cairo speech the I-man said he was unAmerikkkan.

[EFerrari]

2. There's no way he sent that. The man wears button down collars.

lol

[Captain Hilts]

3. Sen. Grassley's done got himself all wrapped up in 'stupid'. nt

[ecstatic]

4. Such a disgusting lack of respect

Key word PRESIDENT Obama, get it, Grassley?! Yes, he's your boss and he can tell you what to do, asshat!

[WriteDown]

34. Uh...

Grassley is a moron, but the POTUS is not the boss of anyone in the legislative or judicial branch.

[AlbertCat]

49. Yes, he's your boss

No he's not. WE'RE his boss....and the president's.

This "the President's the boss" crap is a leftover of Right Wing thinking from the Bush Years. Get a grip people. The 3 branches of government are SEPARATE and EQUAL.
The president cannot just tell Congress what to do. For several years we had the Vice President telling a rubber stamp Congress what to do and it worked out great, didn't it?

[Wizard777]

5. Obama should have remembered his own call for bipartisanship.

He should have told the democrats to deliver on health care and told the republicans they're Unpatriotic and Unamerican if they don't deliver on health care because terrorist diseases are trying to kill Americans. That way everyone is on the same page.

:sarcasm:

[zbdent]

6. was Grassley complaining during the 97 percent of the term that Bush was on vacation?

[sniffa]

7. I had no idea Chuck is actually a teenager

[WePurrsevere]

8. Um'kay... I had to look up Grassley's age.

I would have thought by the age of 75 and being in politics he'd be a bit more mature and diplomatic... apparently not. :eyes:

Last time I checked Obama was there for a very good diplomatic reason. There's no reason he shouldn't do a bit of sightseeing when he has a few moments of downtime. Honestly how many vacations did Bush take again? :crazy:

[jeanmarc]

52. u nailed it

[MO_Dem]

9. If Sen. Grassley doesn't want to work, he should RETIRE

Maybe there's an energetic DEMOCRAT in Iowa that would be willing to take over for poor exhausted Grassley? :evilgrin:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. Grassley is teh 1337 haxz0rs

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Pwned!

U r0X0rs! :rofl:

[Dogmudgeon]

11. Praise Jesus for Twitter!

It allows all these professional ninnies to really strut their stuff -- no matter how silly it makes them look.

--d!

[47of74]

12. I'm hoping we here in Iowa can get someone next year...

...who'll put up more than token opposition to Grassley. Hopefully we can unseat Grassley, but even if not remind him that he serves at the pleasure of the people of Iowa.

[Arkana]

13. Congratulations, ladies and gents of Iowa--this is the turd you elected

to represent you.

Thank God Harkin's the other Iowa senator--I bet he's not whining about "workinWKEND", whatever the hell that means.

[John K]

14. Senator Grassley you may not be a nail, but you are a pinhead!

What a fool. If he thinks that Obama has no role in the health care debate, he should stop smoking crack. He also should give up on twitter. What an idiot.

[CLANG]

15. Oh yeah?

Well, Grassley is a dick, a dunce, a dork, and a damned traitor! I guess two can play the name calling game, eh Chuck?

Why must we suffer these dimwits? :mad:

[4lbs]

16. Sightseeing in Paris? Attending the 65th anniversary memorial of the D-Day Invasion is sightseeing?

Yeah, ok. :eyes:

[Baby Snooks]

24. No but....

His wife and daugters are remaining in Paris to "do a little shopping." Which means two planes were sent to Paris. One of them just so they could "do a little shopping." Which means the taxpayers paid for two planes and two round trips to Paris for the Obamas. Just so they could "do a little shopping." On the heels of the "date" in New York.

Perhaps shopping for more $540 Lanvin sneakers at a discount that can be sneaked in without paying duty? Maybe some Lanvin gowns at a discount?

Obviously the first lady doesn't make a pit stop through customs like the rest of us.

The Obamas as consummate consumers. Really beginning to leave a bad taste in the mouth as they say.

[Alcibiades]

27. how many planes went back and forth to crawdad, tx?

STFU.

[4lbs]

28. Looking hard for something to be outraged about I see.

Never mind that they said they will reimburse the government for any non-government related expenses. That means the plane to fly Michelle and the kids, the hotel stay, and any goods purchases.

They also will reimburse for the New York date.

However, don't let that stop you from complaining that President Obama is a greedy capitalist consumer.

[Baby Snooks]

31. Nancy Reagan said a lot of things too..

When the IRS nailed her for not declaring borrowed gowns she kept Nancy Reagan said a lot of things. No one knows if she returned the gowns or returned the gowns and then had them shipped on to Los Angeles later and just simply didn't tell the IRS she kept them. Plus some jewelry. Plus some this. And some that. Quite a bit of this and that.

This isn't just about the Obamas. Congress rips us off as well. I have yet to see the media or any of the "watchdogs" really tally it all up but I bet if they did there would be few Americans regardless of political affiliation who would be happy with it any more than than they were with the matter of the "pork barrel" which is still a nice little barrel that benefits the politicians because it benefits their major supporters in most cases. Billions of our tax dollars. While millions do without. Some without food. Some without homes.

I look forward to seeing the copy of the check the Obamas send in to reimburse the government.

[4lbs]

33. It may not be a check so much as an agreed docking of a portion of his $400K annual salary. (n/t)

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[Moonwalk]

36. And Nancy Reagan and Michelle Obama have so much in common! Why, they could be twins!

I can so see why you're comparing the two. Or, were you comparing Barak to Nancy? They, also, are very much alike, I sometimes can't tell them apart. I mean, the way Nancy lived her life before she got into the White House is a carbon copy of how Barak Obama lived his up till he got there. Their values do seem very similar. Surely, we can use Nancy as an accurate barometer of what Obama will do when he promises to repay the government for such things. Yes, indeed, we can compare that apple to that orange. Makes perfect sense not to trust the one now because the other fibbed so badly back in the 80's....

:sarcasm:

[Baltoman991]

39. Oh boo hoo

The tax payers are paying for nothing. Obama has stated the money for the extra flight will be paid for by HIM AND HIM ALONE. Funny how so many Liberals on this board somehow cherry pick information the same way conservatives do.

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[Telly Savalas]

46. Given the high volume of brush that needs clearing in Eastern Texas

it is completely inexcusable for the president to be in Europe.

[shadowknows69]

17. Well he can't sign anything until you morons write it.

So stop bitching and get busy.

[bitchkitty]

18. Had to have been drunk or crazy.

Probably both. What an idiot.

[roody]

44. He is a Baptist. His idea of heaven is being able to drink in public.

[d_b]

19. i meen hoo duz that negra thenk he iz?

[Garbo 2004]

20. Heh. Bush treated Congress like hired help and the Repubs in Congress had no problem with that then.

Now it's all about the separation of powers and a President has no right getting all up in ur bidness, right Senator?

Asshat.

[Swede Atlanta]

21. Grassley needs to go back to the Dimentia care facility .......

He escaped and they have been looking for him

[tavalon]

22. I was going to call him a jackass but horse's butt works.

[BR_Parkway]

23. Where's the stink about talking bad about POTUS while he's overseas?

Didn't the RW noise machine overdue that one to death during the last admin?

[lady lib]

25. Sounds like the cat from I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER.

Maybe he IS the cat from I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER. You never know...

[aquart]

26. Guess George let them vacation when he did.

I can see why he'd be upset at a president who thought he ought to do his job.

[sendero]

29. Bush spent a third of his presidency..

.. on vacation. Shut the fuck up.

[and-justice-for-all]

32. Chuck Grassley, blow it out your arse you goon..

This fuck and the rest of the repuke bastards, did not say a damn word when shrub and McCant were having cake while people in New Orleans were DYING.

[crossfade]

35. Grassley Idiot

Give it a rest, Grassley. Here's another example of self-important republics that should rather sit down and shut the hell up.

[Vincardog]

38. Grassley does not sound like a horse's butt. He is a horse's butt.

[RBInMaine]

40. Grassley can go piss up a rope ! What a bunch of whining BS artists these RUSHubLickin' pukes are.

[Zech Marquis The 2nd]

41. he needs to STFU

Where was this old geezer when Boy George was fiddling around his fake ass ranch in Crawford? Or how about when * fiddled while New Orleans was literally drowning? :argh:

[rainbow4321]

42. Looks like he almost set himself on FIRE..burning stuff in windy conditions

Way to go...I'm sure your "good naber" kept the entire neighborhood from being engulfed in the flames that you stupidly started as the winds picked up.



Work on farm Fri. Burning piles of brush WindyFire got out of control. Thank God for good naber He help get undr control PantsBurnLegWound
9:44 PM Apr 10th from txt

Latest diagnosis of my burn fr farming accident is that I won't need skin graft
8:59 AM Apr 20th from txt

[rasputin1952]

45. It is Congress' job to pass legislation...

not the president's.

Grassley is a jerk, he can't come up w/anything viable for the Bill, so he prods the president. Damn old fool that can barely speak anyway. He's always been little more than a jughead, and couldn't get out of a wet paper bag w/ a sharp knife. By far, one of the biggest clowns in the Senate...:eyes:

[thelordofhell]

47. So we're supposed to believe...........

1. A 75 year old conservative male uses twitter.

2. A 75 year old conservative politician would phrase something like that on twitter.

Folks, this is either some aide to this old fart or a hoax.

:wtf:

[WePurrsevere]

53. It's not a hoax... I checked that much before posting..

If you go to his site and do a search it talks about attending a TweetUp and meeting others who use Twitter.

Apparently he's quite proud of the fact that he Twitters (and has since Nov 2007). Here are a couple of articles from March and April of this year where he (and a few others) talk about being high tech/techno-savvy:
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10587016
http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090403/NEWS/704039936/1002/NEWS

Considering his political opinions, it's probably his only positive as far as I'm concerned. ;)

[LuckyLib]

48. As we heard this on the news this evening, my SO says "Fuck you, Chuck!"

Just once I'd like some of these congressional idiots to imagine that they were elected to do what's best for the country.

[jeanmarc]

51. Grassley is a joke

'u' 'skedul' are not words, Mr. Grassley.

What did Grassley do before becoming a Senator? I'd like to know because I might want to be a Senator too. Or I mean 2.

[Blandocyte]

54. Dumb as a doorNAIL

Pres is working his job representing us in Paris and elsewhere, and Grassley's bitching about having to do his job. Grassley, if you can't hack the workload anymore, freakin' retire and let someone else who actually wants to serve do the job!

[madokie]

55. he is a horse's ass

no doubt about that.

[snooper2]

56. Did the get a 13 year old to teach him how to twitter?

Grassley's first tweet: "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: "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."


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