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GOP Senator Pushing For "Bipartisan" Health Bill Calls Dem Plan "Idiotic"

Media Matters | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Chuck Grassley made an absurd straw man argument to support his claim that Democratic proposals for health insurance reform are "idiotic."...

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Grassley Uses Kennedy's Brain Tumor To Spread Fear Of Rationing

thinkprogress.org | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, has taken the lead role in negotiating the health care reform bill for the...

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Republicans, Healthcare and Money

Stu Kreisman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Max Baucus, Mark Sanford, First Amendment, Dick Armey, President Obama, Jeff Bingaman, Charles Grassley, Bobby Jindal, Olympia Snowe, Tea Baggers, Single Payer, Big Pharma, Politics News, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, John Enzi, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Care, Birthers, Rick Perry, Health Care Reform, Kent Conrad, Pharmaceutical Industry, Politics News
Stu Kreisman

All but three Republicans voted against the stimulus, yet they all are gladly taking the money. Seeing a trend here?

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Sen. Grassley To Vote Against Sotomayor Confirmation

Des Moines Register | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said today he planned to oppose the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court when the Senate Judiciary...

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Grassley: GOP Will Take Blame If Health Reform Fails

Quad City Times | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

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Republicans calling for the defeat of President Obama's health-care reform plan may not like the outcome if they are successful, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grass...

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At Sotomayor Hearings, Some Like it Simple

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Gop, Charles Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor Confirmation, Jeff Sessions, Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley, Jon Kyl, Republicans and Race, Race Relations, Republicans and Sotomayor, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Any judgment that differs from mine, to the extent it differs from mine, does not reflect reality. I am White Guy.

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Grassley Cracks Sex Joke At Hearing: "People Always Say I Have The Ability To Turn People On"

Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Grassley Joke, Sonia Sotomayor Hearing, Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing, Chuck Grassley, Charles Grassley, Politics News

Congratulations to Senator Chuck Grassley for cracking what may be the best one-liner so far at the Sotomayor confirmation hearings; best of all, it w...

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For This Wise African American, Sotomayor Hearings Reveal the Heart of Race Conflict in America

Eric Deggans | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, U.S. Senate, Charles Grassley, Glenn Greenwald, Sonia Sotomayor, Jeff Sessions, Samuel Alito, Race, Confirmation Hearings, Politics News
Eric Deggans

The GOP decries Sotomayor's statements about heritage, but in 2005 another Supreme Court nominee told the Senate that in discrimination cases, he often takes into account his own family's history.

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Republicans Complain: Obama Never Woos Us Anymore

Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

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GOP leaders have a new complaint about President Obama: He's not reaching out to them nearly as much as he did earlier this year, when he road-tested ...

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Grassley: Bipartisanship On Health Bill Means No Public Option

Think Progress | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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On MSNBC this morning, Norah O'Donnell asked Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, "what needs to be in"...

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GOP Senators Equate Public Health Plan With "Government Takeover"

Wall Street Journal | Patrick Yoest | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, Charles Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Health Care Reform, Government-Takeover, Barack Obama, GOP Senators, Politics News

Republican members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee criticized proposals to create a public health insurance option to compete with private insure...

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The Detention Election Game

Anne-Marie Cusac | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tom Coburn, Presidential Election, Charles Grassley, War on Terror, Prison, Oscar Goodman, Terrorism, Prolonged Detention, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, Politics News
Anne-Marie Cusac

Obama wants to win in November 2012. It's never too early for a campaigning Democrat to get tough on crime.

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Obama's Supreme Pick: No Drama, No Bomber

Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Obama Court Nominees, Joe the Plumber, Rush Limbaugh, Charles Grassley, Bomb Throwers, Bomb-Throwers, Obama and Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, Obama Supreme Court Nominees, Socialism, Chuck Grassley, United States Senate, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

when Republicans actually come face-to-face, or even voice-to-voice, with the actual Obama, they can't help but be reassured -- or is it disappointed? -- that he's not the bogeyman they've made him out to be.

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Grassley to Limbaugh: Keep Distorting Health Reform

Lester Feder | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Comparative Effectiveness Research, Harry and Louise, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Grassley, Charles Grassley, Health Reform, Politics News
Lester Feder

Though the Senator called for bipartisanship, he paradoxically encouraged conservative commentators to keep launching smear campaigns against the health care provision.

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Jason Linkins

Colbert Will Hunt Down AIG Bonus Babies With Pitchforks (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

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"Nation," Colbert urged, "follow me, and I will make us a mob so big, it cannot fail." We'll all remember having this good laugh as the world collapses around us!

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Grassley: AIG Execs Should Quit Or Commit Suicide

AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Sen. Charles Grassley wants AIG executives to apologize for the collapse of the insurance giant _ but said Tuesday that "obvio...

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The Taxpayer and the Tax Collector

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

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Christopher Brauchli

Senator Grassley would obviously prefer to have 60 people in the private sector doing an inefficient job of collecting taxes than to turn the job over to the more efficient public sector.

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Grassley Warns Reid: Don't Interfere With Health Care

Talking Points Memo | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Grassley, Charles Grassley, Senate Finance Committee, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Health Care, Health Reform, Schip, Politics News

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) is vowing a rapid push on health reform this year, telling reporters yesterday that he would intro...

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Dems Play Hardball: Target Republican Senators For Stimulus Support (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Senator Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Charles Grassley, Olympia Snowe, Judd Gregg, Barack Obama, Politics News

Democrats are planning to aggressively target vulnerable Republican Senators on the stimulus package passed by the House Wednesday night without any G...

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Jason Linkins

GOP Lawmaker Up In Arms Over Porny Scientists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: National Science Foundation, Video, Charles Grassley, Online Porn, Stephen Colbert, Porn, Colbert Report, The Colbert Report, Funny Videos, Media News

Iowa Senator Charles Grassley is going on a hunt -- a hunt for perversion! -- and he's got the National Science Foundation square in his sights. What'...

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Jason Linkins

Turbo Tax Blamed For Geithner's Tax Payment Fail

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media

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It looks as though the makers of Turbo Tax will have to rush out a "Geithner-proof" edition of their tax-pay software between now and April 15, 2009. ...

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NPR Embarrassed by Psychiatrist Host: Bad Apple or Bad Barrel?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Psychiatry, National Public Radio, Charles Grassley, Health, Npr, Frederick Goodwin, American Psychiatric Association, Heath Ledger, Joseph Biederman, Bruce E. Levine, Media News
Bruce E. Levine

NPR announced that it had fired psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin. Goodwin was released after NPR learned that he had received at least $1.3 million from drug companies between 2000 and 2007.

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Senator Uses Barnyard Examples To Explain Credit Crunch

ABC News | Z. Byron Wolf | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Economic Stimulus Package, Charles Grassley, Senate Finance Committee, Stimulus Package, Overseas Markets, Recession, Recession Fears, Business News

With overseas markets tumbling and the U.S. economy in the midst of a downturn, possibly headed into a recession, wading through the econ jargon on Ca...

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