#chuck grassley

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Corn shucking fuckhead.

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[saywhat-politics]

Tempers flare as few Republicans hold in-person town halls | CNN Politics

Republicans faced frustrated constituents at town hall meetings Tuesday, offering a glimpse at the building anger over Donald Trump’s sweepi

Republicans faced frustrated constituents at town hall meetings Tuesday, offering a glimpse at the building anger over Donald Trump’s sweeping overhaul of the federal government among portions of the electorate — and, in the face of it, the deference GOP lawmakers continue to show the president.

In Iowa, Sen. Chuck Grassley was repeatedly urged to stand up to Trump and push back against the executive branch.

“We would like to know what you, as the people, the Congress, who are supposed to rein in this dictator, what are you going to do about it?” one man asked Grassley.

GOP Sen. Grassley faces frustrated Iowans at town hall: ‘Are you proud of Trump?’ | CNN Politics

A room full of frustrated Iowans urged Sen. Chuck Grassley to stand up to President Donald Trump and push back against the executive branch

[hale-my-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Senate Tradition May Survive Trump !!!

Attached "A Senate blue slip from 1917 for U.V. Whipple, a candidate for district judge for the southern district of Georgia, signed by Georgia Senator Thomas Hardwick, who wrote that 'I object to this appointment—[Whipple] is personally offensive and objectionable to me, and I can not consent to the confirmation of the nominee'."

[etheltempest]

this came to me in a dream

[erik-even-wordier]

I used to think this meme was about Senator-for-Life Chuck Grassley. I mean, it says Iowa right there.

But now it's about Mitch McConnell.

[juicetrump2]

Democrats Gain Key Republican Ally in Holding Kash Patel Accountable

Members of Congress want more details on the FBI director’s spending habits.

[clonebrainrot]

I made a poll about a week ago asking if Bernie was too old to run for president around 60% of people agreed or would not have voted for him for other reasons. But there is one ticket I would accept Bernie on and that’s as Vice President

Like an AOC as president and Bernie as Vice president would be a baller ticket. Look I just don’t care no matter what if you’re over 75 you shouldn’t be running for president.

Vice president fine, but Bernie’s time as a presidential candidate was honestly over before even 2016 he was cutting it close at 74

We desperately need an age cut for politicians that they can’t run past 75 or even 70 I don’t care if it would take Bernie out of the running for both Vice president and president and senate it needs to be done and should have been done decades ago

[deadpresidents]

Do you think there should be age limits on politicians?

I think that age limits would be ideal and reasonable -- I mean, as we recently saw, even the Catholic Church has an age limit (80 years old) for the Cardinal electors eligible for selecting a new Pope during a Conclave. I just don't know what the target age should be because people age differently than one another. I also don't know what the mechanism would be for instituting an age limit on politicians. Would it apply to office-holders in all branches of the federal government? How would that work with someone who has a lifetime appointment, like members of the Supreme Court? It seems like there would first need to be term limits across the board, and then maybe some sort of age cap.

But it's clearly unhealthy to the governance of the country for all three branches of the federal government to effectively be a gerontocracy. We've seen the issues with President Biden and now President Trump holding the most powerful office in the world at advanced ages. But I don't think most Americans even realize that the person who is third in line to the Presidency -- the president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, Chuck Grassley -- will be 92 years old in September. He's been in the Senate since 1981 -- practically my entire life and in Congress since the Ford Administration. And here's an even crazier fact: Grassley, who again is third in line to the Presidency, was first elected to the Iowa state legislature during the Eisenhower Administration (1959)! The president pro tempore is usually the longest-serving Senator in the majority party, which means the person who is third in line to the Presidency (after the Vice President and Speaker of the House) is usually one of the oldest members of Congress. Strom Thurmond was third in line to the Presidency when he was 98 years old (in 2001, just a few months before 9/11 when continuity of government was genuinely threatened). Robert Byrd was third in line when he died at the age of 92 in 2010. It's crazy to think one of the highest-ranking leaders in the federal government is routinely someone north of 90 years old. But that will likely never change because it would require politicians to vote against their own ambitions and self-interest, and that's not something that American political leaders do.