by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Franklin D. Roosevelt had been President less than six months when the skies opened over New Hartford, Iowa, on September 17th, 1933, and a bawling baby boy, Charles Grassley, descended upon the world. Today Grassley, who will soon be celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday, is a United States Senator from his home state. When Orrin Hatch leaves office in January, Grassley will become the senior Republican member of that cringe-worthy body and will become President Pro Tempore of the Senate - and thus third in line to the Presidency. He is also the chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, a post that gives Grassley great sway in the selection of federal judges.
It is in Grassley's role as Judiciary chairman where he has been making news this week. The still-bawling senator passes every litmus test established by his party. He is pro-guns, anti-abortion, anti-free health care, anti-marijuana, anti-gay rights - all great positions to help him with the selection of candidates to serve life-time terms on the federal bench.
But if the Senate falls into Democratic hands, as it possibly could do this fall, Grasssley would become the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a lower perch with much less influence.
Anticipating this possible pending demotion in stature and political power, Charles Grassley has begun a campaign to nudge any Supreme Court Justices who might be even remotely considering retirement to step down now so that the Republican Senate can have time to secure their replacements. Grassley, who sat by grinning as a Republican Senate kept President Obama from filling Antonin Scalia's spot on the Supreme Court, knows full well how easily the Senate can thwart the will of the President.
It's time to drive some of those old gray dinosaurs off of the Supreme Court - and who better to do it than Tyrannosaurus Chuckie!
Enjoy your power while you still have it Senator Grassley. Sooner or later everyone's ticket get pulled.
Citizen Journalist
Franklin D. Roosevelt had been President less than six months when the skies opened over New Hartford, Iowa, on September 17th, 1933, and a bawling baby boy, Charles Grassley, descended upon the world. Today Grassley, who will soon be celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday, is a United States Senator from his home state. When Orrin Hatch leaves office in January, Grassley will become the senior Republican member of that cringe-worthy body and will become President Pro Tempore of the Senate - and thus third in line to the Presidency. He is also the chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, a post that gives Grassley great sway in the selection of federal judges.
It is in Grassley's role as Judiciary chairman where he has been making news this week. The still-bawling senator passes every litmus test established by his party. He is pro-guns, anti-abortion, anti-free health care, anti-marijuana, anti-gay rights - all great positions to help him with the selection of candidates to serve life-time terms on the federal bench.
But if the Senate falls into Democratic hands, as it possibly could do this fall, Grasssley would become the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a lower perch with much less influence.
Anticipating this possible pending demotion in stature and political power, Charles Grassley has begun a campaign to nudge any Supreme Court Justices who might be even remotely considering retirement to step down now so that the Republican Senate can have time to secure their replacements. Grassley, who sat by grinning as a Republican Senate kept President Obama from filling Antonin Scalia's spot on the Supreme Court, knows full well how easily the Senate can thwart the will of the President.
It's time to drive some of those old gray dinosaurs off of the Supreme Court - and who better to do it than Tyrannosaurus Chuckie!
Enjoy your power while you still have it Senator Grassley. Sooner or later everyone's ticket get pulled.
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