Two blistering letters to the editor were printed in today’s Des Moines Register opinion section. Senator Chuck Grassley wrote a letter last week trying to explain his support for some of the economic policies that blew the Clinton-era budget surplus like a 15 year old with mom and dad’s credit card.
Iowans aren’t having it. Two letters today describe his pleas “sophomoric” and “disingenuous” by trying to pass the buck.
Take a gander:
‘Everybody’s doing it’ lame excuse for vote
Sen. Charles Grassley made Iowans proud when he entered the Senate and began demanding accountability for expenditures by the Pentagon. How things have changed. His letter in the March 2 Register is nothing more than typical political buck passing.
GOP cut taxes twice using reconciliation
Sen. Charles Grassley’s letter of March 2 on the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts was more than just a bit disingenuous, as he tried to shift the blame for the nation’s devastating debt. If there was such broad support for the 2001 cuts, why did the Republicans make use of the budget reconciliation process to pass them?
…this $500,000 debt per American citizen falls right at your doorstep and those of your fellow Republicans. You gave us tax cuts for the rich and 45,000 American deaths each year for lack of health care.