Chuck Grassley Expresses Frustration With "Centrist" Dems Refusal To Commit To Filibuster

[TomCADem]

Republican Chuck Grassley is expressing frustration with the unwillingness of certain "centrist" Democrats to commit to filibustering Health Care Reform. Grassley may have to take Ben Nelson to the woodshed soon:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/62039-grassley-no-shot-at-stopping-health-bill-without-centrist-dems

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Grassley: No shot at stopping health bill without centrist Dems

Grassley, who is the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, claimed that Republican opponents of the bill needed to turn centrist Democrats' fears about the legislation into solid "no" votes on cloture in order to stop the bill if and when it reaches the Senate floor.

"If these folks aren't willing to stand and say that they're not going to vote for cloture until such and such changes are made, then I don't think it's going to have much of an impact," Grassley said in a news conference with Iowa reporters.

Grassley named Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Evan Bayh (Ind.), Ben Nelson (Fla.) Mark Pryor (Ark.), Jim Webb (Va.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) as potential opponents of healthcare reform legislation on the other side of the aisle.

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[Ardent15]

1. Some Senators have a consicence, Chuck...

I know that you don't, but that doesn't mean everyone else doesn't either.

[NewJeffCT]

2. Hey Chuck - go suck it

why don't you resign or something.

[Vincardog]

4. +1 Chuck goes off and sucks something. Maybe a tail pipe Do it Chuck the Honorable thing

[mdmc]

3. These dems never had the courage to filibuster when they were

in the minority. Why would they now?

[Inuca]

5. Webb?

I did no tknow there are potential problems with him. McCaskill either, unless it's not budget neutral, which Obama says it must be in any case.

There is always the possibility that Grassley is just making stuff up, I guess.

[Botany]

6. Hey Chuck we won and you lost get over it

And it is going to just get worse for you too. But by all means keep fighting against what 70 to 75% of the American people
want. You will be 77 in 2010 when your are up for re-election and your work against what the majority of people in Iowa
want all but assures an ass kicking coming up for you.

[bluescribbler]

7. Boo Hoo

Does the gentleman from Iowa want some cheese to go with his whine?