Sen. Grassley Gets Nasty In Budget Debate: "Well, your wife said the same thing."
By Nicole Belle Friday Mar 27, 2009 5:00pm
(h/t CSPANjunkie)
You stay classy, Chuck Grassley:
Marking up budget legislation can be a brutal affair, often beginning early and lasting long into the night.
But buried within the hours of debate in the Senate on Thursday is an exchange you'd be more likely to hear in a locker room than a congressional hearing.[..]
The back-and-forth came after Grassley, the ranking Republican on the finance committee, pressed Conrad to include an amendment of his. "I'd like to suggest to the chairman that he might want to support this because, you remember, you asked me two years ago not to take a vote on it and you said if we did take a vote on it you might not get your budget resolution adopted. So I did not ask for a vote on it and you said it was a very statesmanlike thing for me to do at that particular time and so I would hope that you would return the favor," said Grassley.
"You know, I used to like you. Let me just say: Oh, you are good," said Conrad.
"Well, your wife said the same thing." [responded Grassley]
Conrad didn't miss a beat. "She did, she said you were the biggest hit of all the speakers at the event," he replied.
What in the hell is going on with the Republican Party? Sure, they're effectually leaderless--because Rush Limbaugh doesn't dirty his fingers with actual details like the budget--but is it too much to ask that they not devolve into lame insult comics while doing the people's business?
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Grassley's the one who said the AIG execs getting bonuses should committ suicide. I don't like the AIG execs, either....but suicide?
Real classy, Grassy.
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Now we're reduced to an MTV show? He's getting either more bitter or senile every day
Mother jokes for Grassley.
You're momma so fat when they yell Koolaid she comes crashing through the wall.
Yo momma teeth so yellow, she's working at a movie theatre spitting on the popcorn.
That's for Grassley
I'm surprised someone didn't yell, "Well, you're momma put the UGH in 'Ugly'".
when she hauls ass, she has to make two trips.
Please turn off the c-span embed. Very annoying. Thank you.
oh hell we got plenty of money , bailouts , shovels, wars , its all good , no need to worry,
We thought the GOP was a gang of buffoons but this takes the cake - a budget WITHOUT numbers! That's one for Ripley's, folks.
These idiots are even more unorganized and unintelligent that anyone of us had originally thought. The GOP will soon be no more and they deserve it.
Just when you thought they couldn't get any lower in the minds of americans, the GOPers continue to stun and amaze beginning with Mr. Gaffe Machine, RNC Chair Steele and his "planned gaffes" (yeah, right!), followed by "No Show Sarah" infuriating her legislature and going "telephonically" (that's a word, Sarah?) - maybe in her lame brain it is....and now this nonsense on the podium.
You've got Eric Cantor who has become a bona fide "Groupie" following Britney around the globe and Lady Mitch Double Waddle McConnell blowing off the meeting on Afghanistan.
Does it get any worse than this for them?
What was Darth Cheney's lowest numbers before exiting with his tail between his legs? Low teens?
That's where this GOP is headed right now. Each week they illustrate to each of us precisely WHY they're not competent to govern EVER again.
What was Mr. Byrd saying when he interrupted Grassley?
This whole scene at the end of the clip was surreal.
every time is refresh?
I love C&L and come 6-8 times a day, but if I have o scroll down to find a clip and turn it off, it drives me crazy. I woke up my roommate this morning, and I'd already turned this clip off 4 times last night.
Also, part of the reason I love you guys is so that I don't have to watch a 3-hour C-span video.
it starts up when I log into the site, again when I click on the article, and again every time I click out of another article.
This is important but there are limits.
Thanks!
At what point is this exchange?
Any way to make it stop? It's really annoying.
Every time I refresh the page or return to it from checking out another article, the CNN Video starts again. The volume is loud as hell and it's quite startling. And annoying. Please, please, please fix the link or post a link to it instead of embedding it. Thanks!
although it's a pretty friendly exchange and no where near as snyde as the way it reads....02:30:50
QSE32
The constant screaming repitition of the CSPAN video seems to now to officially be (I'm gonna scream constantly until you don't want to do what you are doing) material.
All my friends and family who frequent this site are flipping out about it.
It is so putting-off. GOOD GOD. Every time a random person stops onto C&L it is this stupid and repetative C-Span SCREAM. Stop it and let the user control the content.
UGH.
Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. The video proves that this was a friendly exchange between two senators (which they jokingly referenced again a few minutes later). It sounds like whoever started flogging this story only looked at the transcript. That's a mistake Republicans always make (such as when Obama had a teleprompter malfunction during a speech and JOKED at the end, "thank you, President Obama" but Republicans took it seriously as some wild gaffe or sign of arrogance, as if Obama meant it).
Republicans do so many stupid and malicious things for real that it's unnecessary to overdramatize incidents that clearly don't rise to that level.
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Somebody please turn this thing off! It's running automatically, eating my bandwidth and I can't turn it off.
this STILL playing through my next door neighbor's window. It's bellowing across the courtyard from two houses away at 5:24 AM.
You can hear it echoing by some person who must be sleeping with their windows open in these spring-like days.
Closing my window and turning up the fan.
TURN IT OFF.
Where is the sitemonitor when you need him? This thing still hasn't been fixed, and people have been complaining about it for hours!
for CSPAN since 1979!! I get it! By reading the posts, everyone else gets it. It's a flash vid. Please make it go away now. Please. Pretty please. Pretty please with Republicans wearing diapers on top.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! IT'S SLOWING DOWN MY CONNECTION!!!!!!!!
This is what we've come to expect from the "party of family values".........
....and going (CSPAN, since 1979).
the G-damned embed player off!!! This is not the first time I have visited this site only to be welcomed by some screaminly loud video automatically playing. Don't you guys check this crap before you post?
[It doesn't play for everyone. Like me. And none of the team have said it plays for them. For me, it says "Press Play to watch video." It's your browser settings, and the site can't address that. I DO think someone is getting a new version, but it may take awhile-Sitemonitor]
I thought it was a lighthearted moment taken out of context. Grassley spoke the night before and Conrad's wife was in attendance and did say that.
I love you guys, but this is nitpickery like rethugs do. We're better than that.
Lighten up!
Warmest regards,
Sailor.
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