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Sen. Chuck Grassley to Senate Republicans: Use Props

December 20, 2008 12:36 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print

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Senate = pre-schoold ?!

People like Sen. Grassley should go and teach in pre-school, they seem to be good at it.

The way he shows his props makes me wonder that, either he thinks that Senate is a bunch of kids in need of illustrated tale telling or Senate is indeed a bunch of preschoolers who lack imagination... Though I need to note that real kids are much smarter, they do not lack an imagination...

Anyway, I see people are concerned about taxpayers money, how do you think Sen. Grassley paid for his Groundhog Day posters? I do not think his staff made those using his own money. It takes a bunch of people to make those props... What a waste...

And I do really hope that Senate is smarter than that...

How about a joke?

Since Grassley is from Iowa how about a joke... like ETHENOL from CORN!!! that's a joke perpetuated on the American people as an alternative to fossil fuels Or how about farm subsidies They are a joke. Billions of tax dollars go to rich farmers to produce crops nobody needs and nobody wants. Or how about "TAX CUTS" They are a joke. There is NO SUCH THING as TAX CUTS while running a deficit. It's called BORROWING You know from those people we live for "the children" you know the same ones we won't pay for health care or a decent education. Yes we have a service economy...LIP SERVICE!!!

If it gets the job done

any thing that breaks the log jam up in congress - the senate is a great thing! I don't care who thinks of it! Fix what needs to be fixed - less government in our private lives please. Regulate that which otherwise human greed would otherwise take advantage. Lastly and perhaps most importantly - if you must "bailout" with taxpayer money DO NOT GIVE THE MONEY TO THE SAME EXACT PEOPLE WHO MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE. They should be the very first people to lose their jobs because they are in fact the cause of the mess. This is business 101 - don't let them mess it up again with the taxpayers (OUR) money. (shaking my head, wondering why...)

Here's an idea

Why not replace all the Senators with cartoon characters?

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