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Iowa, fair or not, every four years we gather in various high school auditoriums and help select the President — the other three we gather in the same places to stage musical salutes to Meredith Wilson.
Otherwise, Iowa is not famous for memorable characters. This has been particularly true of its senior Senator Charles Grassley who has spent a long career reinforcing the stereotype of the dour Iowegian made famous by American Gothic. However, as Digby noted Grassley has suddenly developed a hankering for bad comedy.
…buried within the hours of debate in the Senate on Thursday is an exchange you’d be more likely to hear in a locker room than a congressional hearing.
Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) was on the receiving end of this one, after telling Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), "Oh, you are good."
"Well, your wife said the same thing," Grassley responded.
This comes on the wake of recommending suicide for bankers. But little reported and even more disturbing, Grassley has started twittering — and it’s embarrassing — even by text messaging standards his spelling is atrocious. It’s like watching my father sing in a Prince cover band.
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Rite ahn, man.
The daughter’s look of embarassment: “Aaawww, Dad!”
There’s a trivia question begging to be asked
Good morning, pups. It’s Krugman solo this morning, as Roger Cohen is off today. Prof. Krugman, in “America the Tarnished,” says these days America is looking like the Bernie Madoff of economies: for many years it was held in respect, even awe, but it turns out to have been a fraud all along.
Here he is:
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. What happened to the weekend? I could have sworn there was a weekend scheduled for some time around now… Did I miss it, or did it really fly by that fast? Have a great day.
Wiki has made trivia much too easy! I guess maybe only New Yorkers are familiar with the name.
From the Department of Nobody Could Have Predicted:
Somebody needs to tell the Sunni Awakeners that the brothers Kagan promised this wouldn’t happen.
morning everyone. Swim’s up.
Grassley & Bachmann are one in the same: TOO STUPID TO BE IN GOVERNMENT, BUT YET, KEEP GETTING ELECTED DESPITE THIS SETBACK.
Morning pups from Paris.
OT Re: downstairs post on Obama making America more like France, I can testify now from personal experience that most Americans would love the emergency medicare they give here, even to outsiders. I arrived with an (unknown) case of shingles in my scalp that got into my eyes, where it prsents a risk to the optic nerve and the cornea. I went to the emergency entrance at Hotel-Dieu, which is just beside Notre Dame Cathedral, and saw a doctor in an hour and a half; waited another or so to see an opthalmologist. Returned two days later when I thougt things were getting worse and again yesterday when I lost vision in my left eye. Today I went to the top specialist centre in France at La Pitié. There’s a small charge, (which will reimbursed by my Canadian public health plan). The main thing, though is the incredible competence of the organization. Everything moved smoothly, and might I had cheerfully. It helps of course to be fluent in French. Like everywhere else, a smile and a nice line can take you a long way. But the basic point is that the system works. No waiting. And it wasn’t as if I arrived in an ambulance.
And the disease will clear itself up witbin a month. Tough reading and preparing lectures right now, but feasible. So much for socialized medicine.
Actually the models Grant Wood used for American Gothic were brother and sister, not father and daughter.