Time for Grassley to go
Sen. Chuck Grassley has been part of Iowa’s congressional delegation since 1975. Over the course of his career, he’s done a lot of work for Iowans. I think it’s great that he visits all 99 counties every year. I appreciate that whenever I write him, he replies. He’s a friendly man with a servant’s heart. Unfortunately, he’s no longer up to the job.
Grassley has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act over and over, even though the Congressional Budget Office estimated this would add $353 billion to the deficit over the next decade and cause millions of Americans to lose their access to health care. Grassley refuses to acknowledge man-made climate change, even as its effects become more and more obvious. While chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee, Grassley has slowed federal judicial confirmations to a halt. There are currently 81 judicial vacancies and 39 pending judicial nominations; the Judiciary Committee hasn’t been this unproductive since 1953. And as of Tuesday, Grassley has said there will be no hearings for an Obama nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Iowa needs problem solvers in its congressional delegation. We need lawmakers who will expand access to health care. We need need lawmakers who believe in science. We need lawmakers who won’t bring the courts to a standstill for political reasons. Iowa needs lawmakers capable of critical thinking who are able to make decisions based on evidence.
Grassley’s got to go.
Robert Humble
RE: “It takes more than money”
And now that the insider Republicans of the establishment suffer a Donald Trump hangover, they are trying to make go away with a dose of new and improved Robo Boy Rubio Establishment Light. The same kind of Democrats are set to get themselves a Hillary Clinton deal by further stacking the deck.
The old guard of both parties refuses to recognize the American people’s total disgust and anger with the political-economic-media establishment. Rejection of the establishment’s insistence on further dominating Americans lives has so angered Americans from the right to center that they follow along with Donald Trump and from left to center with Sen. Bernie Sanders. The establishment chooses to disregard the history of violent revolution that has come when people from across the political spectrum explode in rage across the short bottom gap between right and left and abandonment futile hope of ever coming together across the middle ground at the top. Thus Americans too long seeing and suffering a bleak future declare NO MORE.
No more go-along, get-along subservient acceptance of the same-O 30-years of trickle-down economics that has so decayed the American Dream that it has fallen in in replacement to empowerment of insatiably greedy hoarders of the nation’s and world’s wealth, The resolve to tolerate NO MORE is now shared across the generations and by me: one of the lifelong Democrats born in the depths of the Great Depression who came of age hearing the fireside chats of FDR challenging Americans to their rendezvous destiny and witnessing and playing a child’s part in the making peaceful progressive at home and in America becoming the Arsenal of Democracy in the violent fight abroad that quelled the threat that Axis Powers had set loose upon the world.
And our elders in doing all of this proved themselves to be a Greatest Generation of Americans that built their way together into being the largest middle class in the most prosperous land ever on Earth.
Thought the trail ahead for us older Americans has grown shorter, for too long we have gone along to just get along, and for the sake of our kith and kin, we and they cannot afford same-O more with a vote for establishment left Hillary Clinton. Time to vote for real progress by casting a ballot for Sanders. And if need be, write Sanders in on the ballot — UNLESS.
Unless it appears that Clinton might win, and then it would be better to vote for Trump to ensure that the inevitable CRASH that comes of more of the same falls in ending quagmire of conservatism in fuel of the phoenix fire that sparks the birth the progressive spirit of another generation that has their rendezvous with destiny via government of the people, by the people and for the people fashions the best of times for all. Best avoid the chancing warming of good from bad, and better FEEL THE BERN of peaceful revolution of together building a better future.
Sam Osborne