Chuck Grassley

"The Great Unfinished Business of Our Time": Health Care Reform

September 10, 2009 by MOMocrats

Grassley says Obama tax proposals miss mark

March 14, 2009 by admin

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican tax-writer in the Senate, used the GOP's Saturday radio address to raise warnings about President Obama's tax plans, which Grassley warned would hurt the already-fragile economy.

ANALYSIS: How red state Democratic candidates can defeat GOP Bush rubber-stamp incumbents!

August 7, 2008 by Blue Virginia

Hello Everyone:

I definitely think that Democratic challengers running for the House and Senate in red states can use Bush to their advantage if they are running against a GOP incumbent who has been a Bush rubber-stamp!

I will be using Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn who has been an overall Bush rubber-stamp as an example to illustrate this strategy as far as this post is concerned.

Wadhams: Udall doesn't care about the environment because he supports the troops

July 30, 2008 by johne

There was a very interesting part in a DenverPost story on Monday following the 2nd Udall-Schaffer debate concerning renewable energy:

[Schaffer] even blasted Udall for missing a key 2004 vote to extend a renewable energy tax credit. (Though the Wind Energy Association news release about the vote sent to reporters by the Schaffer campaign also called Udall "vital in gaining this extension" and Udall's campaign said he missed the vote while visiting troops in Iraq.)

Here's a part of that letter:

Dueling Conventions

July 30, 2008 by admin

We've digressed before over to St. Paul in the first week of September. The GOP has reserved 16,000 hotel rooms to host what they claim will be 45,000 attendees. I'm not sure whether that means they will be encouraging unmarried (to each other) attendees to share rooms, or whether even they realize their attendance expectations are wildly optimistic.