The tidetime folklorist wonders when if ever in the next 5 decades we’ll again start asking why not.
The Platter: For You For You by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders (from the first year of a Senatorial lifetime’s quest, as yet unfulfilled)
The Bait: The Chuck Grassley Slim Shaky Worm (a no nothing lure, full of baloney, wrapped in a tissue of lies)
What’s more puzzling is why the President and the Democratic Party don’t call these folks and the political party they belong to what they are: demagogic, amoral, and racist.
When contemptible idiots like Chuck Grassley and Sarah Palin are treated as serious, thoughtful people, you know health care isn’t going anywhere anytime some.
Gorilla says: “Spreading hatred of the other is the new post-partisanship, and as old as the hills”.
Chuck Grassley, last seen defending the free market monopoly of health insurers in Iowa, is now protecting the heavily subsidized ($853 million in 2006) corn farmers of Iowa from Brazilian ethanol competition.
He does this by putting a hold on the US Ambassador-designate to Brazil’s nomination, apparently because of remarks suggesting that the tariff on Brazilian ethanol one day might be repealed.
Gorilla says: “In this age of cannot do bipartisanship, at least you can count on Republicans to defend home grown socialism right up to the water’s edge!”
