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Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley Doesn’t Want New Yorkers Making ‘Us Midwesterners Look Bad’

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Republican Senator Chuck Grassley was having none of his colleague Sen. Chuck Schumer‘s attitude on the Senate floor today. Asked if he would yield to a question after speaking against the elimination of the Bush-era tax cuts, Grassley acceded, but not before chastising Schumer for being one of those “New Yorkers” who “think you can make us Midwesterners look bad.”

It seems Sen. Robert Menendez was not the only one a bit cranky at today’s special Saturday legislating session. Sen. Grassley appeared irritable during the end of his time on the Senate floor, when, after appropriating time, Sen. Schumer asked if Sen. Grassley would yield for a question. He did, but not without snapping, “yes, because you New Yorkers think you can make us Midwesterners look bad.” It is unclear whether any prior incidents during the day evoked that remark or whether it was as much of a non-sequitur as it sounds.

Sen. Schumer’s question was what made the tax cuts more important than spending on unemployment benefits, a point Sen. Grassley insisted he had made “very clear”: “taxpayers are smarter than we in Congress are,” and they know, he continued to argue, that the government would spend frivolously.

Coverage of the exchange via Fox News below, and below that, the full question and answer exchange:




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  • Ricia

    This is why they are not getting anything done! It’s all about their fifteen minutes of infamy!

  • skyfet

    Someone like Grassley is making his own people in Iowa look bad by repeating the useless claim that the plug was going to be pulled on grandma. What a shame, to represent the nice people of Iowa.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: If the bill was 20 thousand pages it would have passed without reading it right demoshits!

  • timzank

    skyfet said:
    Someone like Grassley is making his own people in Iowa look bad by repeating the useless claim that the plug was going to be pulled on grandma. What a shame, to represent the nice people of Iowa.

    What is it with you and the death panels thing? You know it’s true, why keep denying it? Move on already

  • Nahu Tuk

    skyfet said:
    Someone like Grassley is making his own people in Iowa look bad by repeating the useless claim that the plug was going to be pulled on grandma. What a shame, to represent the nice people of Iowa.

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obama-names-health-czar-who-favors-rationing

    bona fides

  • kabmn00

    FUCK CHUCK

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: The only thing Chuck Grassley said that Midwesterners Look Bad if you call them Bill Adkins or Paul Westlake!

  • Elaine B

    Just4thefacts:

    Fact: The dumbest ass on this blog is you.
    Fact: You don’t know your dumb ass from a hole in the ground.
    Fact: If you ever got a brain you would be a danger to yourself.
    Fact: You a stupid old bigot
    Fact: You constantly try to be funny but you come of as a sick jerk
    Fact: You never, never get your FACTS STRAIGHT!
    Fact: I am SICK and tired of you saying FACT.

    And that is a fact!!

  • Elaine B

    Chuck Grassley should be ashamed of himself but that would take having a conscience. What a heartless despicably game they are playing.

  • disenlightened

    Good for Grassley. The man is finally coming around.

  • BlackWidow

    Chuck Grassley is an idiot. Another no class Republican.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    In case no one has noticed, the dumbocrats have yet to understand the election results.

  • BlackWidow

    timzank said:
    What is it with you and the death panels thing? You know it’s true, why keep denying it? Move on already

    The crazy Arizona Governor has stopped organ transplants in her state. That is a real death panel. I haven’t heard anyting from PALIN about that. As usual when it is a Republican then it is fine with Ms. Bendystraw.

    Oh by the way KO’s show has raised over $100,000 for two reciptents waiting for transplants and still counting. Oh my bad because Bill O and Hannity and Beck give all kinds of money to charity don’t they? So KO may not have as many viewers but at least his viewers are human.

  • BlackWidow

    gordonbloyershow said:
    In case no one has noticed, the dumbocrats have yet to understand the election results.

    Blower go back to your mother’s basement. Please

  • disenlightened

    BlackWidow said:
    The crazy Arizona Governor has stopped organ transplants in her state.

    No money means no money. Why don’t Democrats understand that? Maybe if Arizona weren’t overrun by illegal immigrants who are draining the budget, the state could find the money for things like transplants. But no, libs want it both ways.

  • Elaine B

    gordonbloyershow says:

    In case no one has noticed, the dumbocrats have yet to understand the election results.

    Hey dumbshit, What is the matter with you? Do you have a cyst on your ass like your Rust Lintball? Is this your excuse for being a stupid jerk like it was his for getting out of the army.

    I bet he is your hero … LOL Right! too funny ! I bet the cyst on your asses must have hurt him and you a lot…

  • Elaine B

    BlackWidow says:
    December 4, 2010 at 11:34 pm BlackWidow(Quote)
    Thumb up 1 Thumb down 14

    gordonbloyershow said:
    In case no one has noticed, the dumbocrats have yet to understand the election results.

    Blower go back to your mother’s basement. Please

    LOL good one!

    But, what will happen when the Republican understand the results of this election! WOW, what a eye opener that will be…. YOU HAVE BEEN SUCKERED BY YOUR OWN PARTY!!

  • The Count

    AH AH AH AH AH AH !

  • Elaine B

    ** I just have to comment on this crazy Arizona Republican Governor, Talk about death panels!!! She is creating them all by herself in Arizona, as well as debt prisons.

    Keith did a special the yesterday on a young girl who was refused a lung. It was very moving and there are a lot who are donating to her transplant now from that program alone, I know, I am one. But what is disgusting is that this is actually going on and the poor are going to not get the health care they need there.

    What was once a great country that cared about those who had less, is becoming a thing of the past. Where is the American heart, soul, love of country and people we used to have. Greed and survival is taking over.

    Where in our humanity, what kind of civilization are we becoming?

  • Elaine B

    So there we are! So where are we?

  • skyfet

    @Nahu Tuk
    Have they pulled the plug on you or grandma? Son’t be a useful idiot.

  • Elaine B

    Don’t worry about me. I can protect myself. It is you I am worried about.

  • Elaine B

    Oh my gosh, I sure love being here!! It get so much love from you all :)

    I bet ya more people hate me on fox then they would if I blogged on MSMBC… but you know what? I love being hated by you! kiss kiss hug hug

  • Elaine B

    A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike
    English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

    ‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’ ‘Pencil,’ however, is masculine: ‘el lapiz.’

    A student asked, ‘What gender is ‘computer’?’

    Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups,
    male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer’
    should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four
    reasons for its recommendation.

    The men’s group decided that ‘computer’ should definitely be of the
    feminine gender (‘la computadora’), because:

    1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;

    2 The native language they use to communicate with other computers is
    incomprehensible to everyone else;

    3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible
    later retrieval; and

    4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half
    your paycheck on accessories for it.

    ===============================================================

    The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine
    (‘el computador’), because:

    1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;

    2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves;

    3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE
    the problem; and

    4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a
    little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

    The women won.

  • Elaine B

    A preacher said, “Anyone with ‘special needs’ who wants to be prayed over, please come forward to the front by the altar.”
    With that, Leroy got in line, and when it was his turn, the Preacher asked, “Leroy, what do you want me to pray about for you?” Leroy replied, “Preacher, I need you to pray for help with my hearing.”

    The preacher put one finger of one hand in Leroy’s ear, placed his other hand on top of Leroy’s head, and then prayed and pray. He prayed a “blue streak” for Leroy, and the whole congregation joined in with great enthusiasm.

    After a few minutes, the preacher removed his hands, stood back and asked, “Leroy, how is your hearing now?”

    Leroy answered, “I don’t know. It isn’t until next week

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Elaine B stuck on stupid loop stutters her way to Lunatic asylum.

    Fact: Liberals have a genetic brain disorder that allows them to lie about their real surroundings that no medication can cure the proper neurons to fire. This disorder allows them to know so much that isn’t so, hear so much that isn’t said. Causes kleptomania for other people belongings just because they believe they deserve it. The liberal disease Causes severe lack to want to work for a living and a need and desire to want to live off others incomes.

    Fact: Left nut liberal D-bagger that post things nobody believes or listens to.

  • bigbrainbrad

    gordonbloyershow said:
    In case no one has noticed, the dumbocrats have yet to understand the election results.

    you mean just like the republicans failed to understand the ’08 election results

  • Just4thefax

    bigbrainbrad said:
    you mean just like the republicans failed to understand the ‘08 election results

    Fact: Republicans found out about the hopey and changey bullshit and placed in a new order in 2010!

  • BatBoy

    Elaine B said:
    A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike
    English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

    I like it!

  • Pablo

    BlackWidow said:
    The crazy Arizona Governor has stopped organ transplants in her state.

    No, she hasn’t. Why must lefties lie?

  • Pablo

    Elaine B said:
    Where in our humanity, what kind of civilization are we becoming?

    We’re becoming the kind of civilization where people who depend on the government for their healthcare find themselves very disappointed.

  • Patrick Henry

    Elaine B said:
    Fact: The dumbest ass on this blog is you.
    Fact: You don’t know your dumb ass from a hole in the ground.
    Fact: If you ever got a brain you would be a danger to yourself.
    Fact: You a stupid old bigot
    Fact: You constantly try to be funny but you come of as a sick jerk
    Fact: You never, never get your FACTS STRAIGHT!

    Uh, no, in each case that would be you. “You a stupid old bigot”-you still can’t understand when to use “you”, “your”, or “you’re”, can you?

  • Patrick Henry

    Elaine B said:
    Do you have a cyst on your ass like your Rust Lintball?

    Wrong again! That would be you.

  • notsofast

    Schumer the schmuck back at it.

  • notsofast

    Man, that Elaine B is one massive cretin and lib retard.

  • skyfet

    @timzank
    If it’s true why the hell are you running away from it. Have they pulled the plug on your grandma? You betcha!

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    @timzank
    If it’s true why the hell are you running away from it. Have they pulled the plug on your grandma? You betcha!

    Ask Paul:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZTntL13ZY

  • hgovernick

    “Grassley acceded, but not before chastising Schumer for being one of those “New Yorkers” who “think you can make us Midwesterners look bad.”

    There are FEW LIVING who can make Midwesterners look worse than GRASSLEY – the ancient decomposing sack of depraved compost, the cantankerous stack of licentious leprosy scabs, the quarrelsome office clerk who rides horses bareback in the sushi-bars of Osaka, the filthy bag of dim-witted frog fat – the uncultured drum of inedible rhino carcasses, the wrinkly bucket of rotund aardvark effluent.

    He’s a self-centered narcissist whose friends always made fun of him from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

  • hgovernick

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: If the bill was 20 thousand pages it would have passed without reading it right demoshits!

    FACT: In childhood you were a barrel-scraping pickpocket who got drunk with a baboon in a mental hospital.
    FACT: You are a rambunctious toilet-full of steaming dead gerbils.
    FACT: You are a grotesque mass of unruly used toilet paper.
    FACT: You are an ancient vat of boorish pimple pus.
    FACT: You are an antisocial tub of hypocritical silage.
    FACT: You are a pointless wheelbarrow-full of blunt dog barf.
    FACT: You are an atrabilious shred of subhuman hippo vomit.
    FACT: You are a bizarre cup of drivelly maggot guts.
    FACT: You are a psychotic box of flea-infested rabbit raisins.
    FACT: You are a whiny truckload of decomposing carrion.
    FACT: You have Van Gogh’s ear for facts.
    FACT: You are a raunchy bag of obstinate bowel movements.
    FACT: You are a CRUDE APOLOGY for Republican hemorrhoids.
    FACT: You are a constipated blob of loutish rectal hair.
    FACT: You are a putrefying barrel of freeze-dried Republican promises.
    FACT: You are an asinine load of Grassley’s flabby sinus drainage.
    FACT: You are an industrial-strength tub of perfidious Grassley entrails.
    FACT: You are an ill-bred shovel-full of unsterilized Chuck Grassley armpit hairs.
    FACT: You hold the Guinness record as owner of the largest collection of Grassley navel lint.
    FACT: You wouldn’t know a fact if you found one on the floor of the lingerie section at Wal-Mart – your favorite shop-spot.

    May 28 terrifying Democratic male belly dancers watch television while dancing in your nightmares.

    Your mother should have thrown you away and kept the stork.

    I will defend, to your death, my right to my opinion.

    And you can quote me on that.

  • hgovernick

    gordonbloyershow said:
    In case no one has noticed, the dumbocrats have yet to understand the election results.

    And neither have you, if you believe what happened on November 2 will benefit the decent people of the United States.

  • hgovernick

    Elaine B said:
    But, what will happen when the Republican understand the results of this election! WOW, what a eye opener that will be…. YOU HAVE BEEN SUCKERED BY YOUR OWN PARTY!!

    Even when the results of the election are made clear, the Republiturds will not understand them. The same “power of persuasion” that allows them to be suckered in the first place keeps them from ever understanding what happened after the damage is done.

    That’s why they can vote for someone like George W. Bush TWICE, and not bat an eye. They are empty vessels. Selfish sloths. Soulless, blood-sucking vampires. Lost and voiceless. I’m almost at the point of giving up on trying to help them.

  • hgovernick

    Elaine B said:
    Where is our humanity, what kind of civilization are we becoming?

    The very fact that your comment elicited so many thumbs down only verifies the truth of your concerns. This country is ripe for the reckoning of the rest of the world – thanks to the greedy power-lust of the Republiturds, as well as some turn-coat Democrats.

  • CarmanK

    So, Grassley’s reasoning for allowing the Bonus tax cuts for all those millionaires and billionaires is that the “government will waste the money” they collect. Interesting idea for a republican who participated in the growth of the deficit in order to enrich the very wealthy. He has no problem taking away SS benefits from the elderly, increasing the cost of Medicare for the elderly and disabled, depriving the long term unemployed of needed benefits to feed, cloth and shelter their families, but wants to allow the wealthy to escape paying their fair share for the needs of the country. We know that the growth in the deficit is fueled by supporting two wars, but Grassley doesn’t think the rich should pay their fair share in protecting the nation? We know that conservatives of today, have no social conscience. Grassley and those midwesterners and their southern allies believe that Social Darwinism is the future for their america. The repuglycons want everyone to fend for themselves as evidenced by their immoral adoption of the Futile Care Law in TX which creates DEATH PANEls AND OF course there is the condemning to death of the 100 people in AZ awaiting transplants in order to balance the budget. And who could ever forget in TN where first responders stood by while their neighbor’s home burned to the ground killing the family pets because he failed to pay a service fee. And of course, there is no real moral standard expected of GOP candidates for office. In FL, they just elected a governor whose company bilked medicare out of millions and admitted to Medicare fraud paying a billion dollars in fines. He should have gone to jail). And of course, it will be interesting, now that he has the power, to see if the Elderly abuse charges against another of his companies is fully investigated. Just what is it that Midwesterners haven’t approved of that they could possibly be embarrassed by?

  • hgovernick

    Elaine B said:
    … but you know what? I love being hated by you! kiss kiss hug hug

    I agree. Being hated here is a badge of honor. Being hated here is a confirmation that everything I believe about the Republican party is true. I love being hated here. Keep those thumbs down coming, Republiturds.

  • hgovernick

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Republicans found out about the hopey and changey bullshit and placed in a new order in 2010!

    FACT: Stupid is as Stupid does.
    FACT: “hopey” and “changey” are Sarah Mascara cliches, long worn out by now. But Stupid is as Stupid does.

  • hgovernick

    Pablo said:
    BlackWidow said:
    The crazy Arizona Governor has stopped organ transplants in her state.

    No, she hasn’t. Why must lefties lie?

    Oh, right. So sorry.

    CORRECTION:

    The bat-shit, soulless, paid puppet Arizona Governor has allowed the death of people in need by claiming their is no money available for organ transplants in her state – which is a documented, outright lie.

  • The Count

    AH AH AH AH AH !

  • hgovernick

    CarmanK said:
    Just what is it that Midwesterners haven’t approved of that they could possibly be embarrassed by?

    Great post throughout. Even when confronted with indisputable facts, I won’t be surprised to see your comments receive many thumbs down by so many of the empty vessels reading these comments.

  • disenlightened

    hgovernick said:
    I agree. Being hated here is a badge of honor. Being hated here is a confirmation that everything I believe about the Republican party is true. I love being hated here. Keep those thumbs down coming, Republiturds.

    We now have the biggest piece of shit to ever post here. They say that after all these years his 43 year old baby sister still won’t talk to him because of what he did to her. His parents threw his photographs away years ago. His father left his mother for a gay relationship and ended up committing suicide. He’s ugly and pays for women in the worst parts of town. He was kicked off the police force and now works as a security guard. He bites his nails and sometimes finds himself pausing in front of the big window at Abercrombe & Fitch to look at the posters of bare chested teenage boys. He’s the biggest piece of shit to ever post here.

  • disenlightened

    hgovernick said:
    Oh, right. So sorry.

    CORRECTION:

    The bat-shit, soulless, paid puppet Arizona Governor has allowed the death of people in need by claiming their is no money available for organ transplants in her state – which is a documented, outright lie.

    I’ve got nothing against baldness, but it’s always funny when you run into a bald guy named Harry.

  • hgovernick

    disenlightened said:
    We now have the biggest piece of shit to ever post here.

    => Coming from a blank slate like you, that’s a compliment.

    They say that after all these years his 43 year old baby sister still won’t talk to him because of what he did to her.

    => Your mother was a geeky bit-part actress who endlessly recited Monty Python sketches in a home for the permanently baffled.

    His parents threw his photographs away years ago.

    => Your father was an inadequate latex fetishist who used to do funny dances in large vats of whipped cream.

    His father left his mother for a gay relationship and ended up committing suicide.

    => Between acting jobs and street walking, your mother was a mild-mannered toilet cleaner who made other ladies of the night blush in kinky sex clubs.

    He’s ugly

    => True.

    and pays for women in the worst parts of town.

    => You’re a big-nosed window cleaner who hides in empty warehouses and assembles plastic scale models of Dick Cheney to pray to six times a day.

    He was kicked off the police force and now works as a security guard.

    => You were arrested for performing lewd acts with your next of kin in the back of the church after riding naked in hot air balloons over Crawford, Texas, hoping to catch a glimpse of your idol, G.W. Bush, so you could achieve orgasm.

    He bites his nails and sometimes finds himself pausing in front of the big window at Abercrombe & Fitch to look at the posters of bare chested teenage boys.

    => You’re a waxy-eared fraudster who has your warts removed in pawn shops.

    He’s the biggest piece of shit to ever post here.

    => Coming from an empty vessel like you, that’s the biggest compliment to ever appear here. My sincere thanks.

  • hgovernick

    disenlightened said:
    I’ve got nothing against baldness, but it’s always funny when you run into a bald guy named Harry.

    A bald guy who has you so flustered you had to go searching the Internet to find out his first name. I’m impressed.

    It probably took you 5-9 hours to figure out that the “h” in my user name here – which gordon-empty-headed-bloyers says is a fake name which I hide behind – stood for “Harry”. Then you saw the hundreds of results in the search engines when my name is entered.

    Then “bingo” – you posted the most unoriginal attempt at a joke ever posted on this blog.

    But I’m impressed you found it worth the time to try to put me down. Flattered, actually. You can try for the rest of your life, but you don’t have the class.

  • disenlightened

    hgovernick said:
    A bald guy who has you so flustered you had to go searching the Internet to find out his first name. I’m impressed.

    It probably took you 5-9 hours to figure out that the “h” in my user name here – which gordon-empty-headed-bloyers says is a fake name which I hide behind – stood for “Harry”. Then you saw the hundreds of results in the search engines when my name is entered.

    Then “bingo” – you posted the most unoriginal attempt at a joke ever posted on this blog.

    But I’m impressed you found it worth the time to try to put me down. Flattered, actually. You can try for the rest of your life, but you don’t have the class.

    I didn’t even bother reading that long piece of trash you responded with. It’s not worth the time, oh Danny boy. I’ll bet I got you so upset you didn’t sleep last night. Chewed those nails down until your fat little fingers bled.

  • disenlightened

    hgovernick said:
    A bald guy who has you so flustered you had to go searching the Internet to find out his first name. I’m impressed.

    Hey, Harvey, we need a bald guy for two lines. Short, kinda feminine looking, and old. Got to be old. Winter of his life. What was the name of that guy who had a three second bit role opposite Bill Murray? Glovernick? Yeh, Harry Glovernick. What a stooge. Call him, he’ll work for free. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

  • hgovernick

    disenlightened said:
    Hey, Harvey, we need a bald guy for two lines. Short, kinda feminine looking, and old. Got to be old. Winter of his life. What was the name of that guy who had a three second bit role opposite Bill Murray? Glovernick? Yeh, Harry Glovernick. What a stooge. Call him, he’ll work for free. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    You don’t need to write much to expose yourself as a complete fool.

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