A little surprising, but Chuck Grassley is honoring blue slips for the U.S Attorney's offices in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (I honestly thought he would not). (For those wondering which New York Senator did not return the blue slip-it was Schumer).
A little surprising, but Chuck Grassley is honoring blue slips for the U.S Attorney's offices in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (I honestly thought he would not). (For those wondering which New York Senator did not return the blue slip-it was Schumer).
Chairing a committee is one thing. However, Grassley got elected to the Senate the same year that Reagan was first elected as POTUS, 1980. Being an institutionalist fits him considering how many decades he's been in Congress.
That said, Grassley also bankrolled the Iraq War from the beginning and did not provide one iota of accountability until after the 2006 midterms (like many of the wimpy Republicans). Quite honestly, he doesn't have a spine unless it's about Iowa and its energy.
But we're talking about Grassley, who provided ZERO accountability whereas many Democrats (except Joe Lieberman) did after the Iraq War happened. This includes Joe Biden and John Kerry well before the 2006 midterms.
Point being is that Grassley along with Lindsay Graham and others blindly supported the Iraq War and gave Bush & Cheney a blank check. Absent of the 2002 Iraq War Resolution, after the Iraq War started, the Democratic Party in the Senate, namely at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were very critical of Bush’s handling of the Iraq War from the beginning. The GOP by contrast only got critical of Bush after the 2006 midterms.
Anyway, Biden and Kerry are no longer in the Senate. Grassley is. I can’t understand why I’m recent Senate elections both Democratic Senate Candidates have not attacked Grassley over his Iraq War record/
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/28/congress/grassley-blue-slips-ny-judges-00313271
A little surprising, but Chuck Grassley is honoring blue slips for the U.S Attorney's offices in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (I honestly thought he would not). (For those wondering which New York Senator did not return the blue slip-it was Schumer).
Grassley is awful in many ways but he's still (somewhat of) an institutionalist.
Whoever succeeds him will likely be far worse.
If Grassley was the institutionalist you are claiming he is, he would not be chairing a Committee in the Senate.
Chairing a committee is one thing. However, Grassley got elected to the Senate the same year that Reagan was first elected as POTUS, 1980. Being an institutionalist fits him considering how many decades he's been in Congress.
That said, Grassley also bankrolled the Iraq War from the beginning and did not provide one iota of accountability until after the 2006 midterms (like many of the wimpy Republicans). Quite honestly, he doesn't have a spine unless it's about Iowa and its energy.
Neither did most of the Democrats (in fact, Joe Biden never did).
But we're talking about Grassley, who provided ZERO accountability whereas many Democrats (except Joe Lieberman) did after the Iraq War happened. This includes Joe Biden and John Kerry well before the 2006 midterms.
Point being is that Grassley along with Lindsay Graham and others blindly supported the Iraq War and gave Bush & Cheney a blank check. Absent of the 2002 Iraq War Resolution, after the Iraq War started, the Democratic Party in the Senate, namely at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were very critical of Bush’s handling of the Iraq War from the beginning. The GOP by contrast only got critical of Bush after the 2006 midterms.
Anyway, Biden and Kerry are no longer in the Senate. Grassley is. I can’t understand why I’m recent Senate elections both Democratic Senate Candidates have not attacked Grassley over his Iraq War record/
Why is Iowa so conservative/Republican if clean energy is so big there?! 😲
Market based solutions are what conservatives are in favor of.