Posted on 09/23/2018 2:03:52 PM PDT by conservative98
At 85 years old, Chuck Grassley is among the oldest members of the United States Senate. He is not the absolute oldest, though — that honor goes to Dianne Feinstein, who was born a few months before Grassley.
Charles Ernest Grassley was born on September 17, 1933. He recently celebrated his 85th birthday. The Iowa Senator was first elected to the US Senate in 1980. He has been serving in the Senate for the past 38 years. He is now serving his seventh term in office.
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Grassley has been in office continuously since he was elected to the Iowa House in 1958, so 60 years in the IA House and Senate and then U.S. House and Senate.
His handling of this could hardly have been worse unless he was Chuck Schumer himself. The Democrats got everything they demanded.
"Thank you sir! May I have another …"
I respect my elders, or at least I try to, but at 85, Mr. Grassley should not be in the center of this national storm.
That’s too much pressure for an old person, when it doesn’t have to be this way. Surely there are other competent members of congress to take on these duties. To me, it’s like directing an 85 y/o driver onto The Autobahn in Germany.
That seems both impractical and almost cruel. His timing is likely to be off. This may account for his ever-moving deadline ultimatums. Put somebody else in that Hot Seat.
If Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, even Marco Rubio were there, this would never have been allowed to string itself out in such a way. Nikki Haley is too busy with the UN. She too seems capable of cracking that whip when you have to.
[The man did everything Tucker Carlson said he shouldn’t do. Either Grassley is senile, or stupid, or working for the other side ( or he is taking advice from someone working the other side).]
Too old. And too long.
I call people like this parasites. The reason we need term limits.
[That seems both impractical and almost cruel. His timing is likely to be off. This may account for his ever-moving deadline ultimatums.]
Grassley has a near-eidetic memory, even at his age.
He has always sounded like a stumble-mouth when he speaks.
Grassley succeeded the legendary ‘Abominable No Man’ H.R. Gross in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District.
Grassley is dismissive of Constitutional objections to runaway Federal power, but regards its restraint as mere common sense.
I agree with others who have said this- Grassely should be able to control his committee and McConnell should be able to control his caucus on something this important. They have both failed us. This never happens with the Democrats.
[I call people like this parasites. The reason we need term limits.]
Understand that there is a difference between what a pol tells you he is going to do and what he actually does. He is not your personal slave and will tell you everything you want to hear before he gets elected. After getting elected, he’ll give you the OK gesture with an index finger going back and forth through the loop. Unless re-election is a concern.
I don’t understand why anyone thinks that term limits will make politicians more responsive. If your job involved a term limit, would you be more responsive? How about a term limit where, at the end of it, you have to take a job that is miles below your current one in terms of status and pay? Politicians are already term-limited - every few years, they are subject to performance reviews by the voters in their districts called elections. A negative performance review means someone else takes the job.
People talk about how Congress gets negative reviews. Of course it does. Conservatives don’t like that they’re not getting everything they want and liberals are the same way. That’s because their Congressman, whom they like, isn’t a king. He is merely one out of hundreds of votes in two chambers.
Hatch, Grassley, Feinstein,
That looks like a picture of a geriatric ward.
So, basically, he's never had a real job in his life.
Yep. Orrin Hatch 84.
[I agree with others who have said this- Grassely should be able to control his committee and McConnell should be able to control his caucus on something this important. They have both failed us. This never happens with the Democrats.]
That, and our primary system, where pols raise their own funds and get on the ballot on the strength of getting the most votes from primary voters, is why we can only loosely be said to have a party system. European parties dole out funds to their candidates, who don’t raise their own funds, and can strike them off the ballot. The GOP cannot even knock a Nazi off the ballot, just as the Democrats cannot strike a Communist out (not that they would want to).
They both need to be replaced by true LEADERS. Just being old or in the Congress longer than anyone else does not a leader make.
They both need to be replaced by true LEADERS. Just being old or in the Congress longer than anyone else does not a leader make.
He got into office when Republicans were treated as second-class citizens required to sit at the back of the bus. He is not accustomed to leadership and what that entails. He is part of the cabal that did nothing but do as the democrats told them to do for so many years and decades.
All those years in the Senate, and he is only 2nd Trombone.
RINOs = Uniparty = Controlled Opposition Party.
I have seen and learned too much to impute good intentions to any of these old treachers.
Democrats never fail and fade like the so-called Republicans.
Both Grassley and Feinstein are 85 years old. She’s obviously still got some game left in her. Grassley not so much. He got played. Kavanaugh loses, Trump loses, we lose.
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