Hmmm ..... Seems Chuck Grassley can't just throw out statements and have them picked up and published without question anymore.
Good summary below the fold
The week started off with Chucks' attempt to claim both sides of the fence on health care. His strategy was called by the Des Moines Register, Iowa's biggest daily.
Then he gets into a little war of words via letters to the editor on the Cedar Rapids Gazette and gets little sympathy.
Great summary here:
http://www.blogforiowa.com/...
Let me just quote the Register' thistle old Chuck earned:
The Des Moines Register:
A thistle to Sen. Chuck Grassley for wanting to have it every which way on health-care reform. First he worked as part of the Gang of Six to craft a bipartisan bill, and got plenty of his own provisions included. Not long after, he began railing against the bill and ultimately voted in lockstep with Republicans against it. Now Grassley is talking up all the good things he put in the law - a law he didn't help pass and worked to defeat. And Grassley's sudden conversion gives lie to the Republicans' plaint that they were frozen out of the process by Democrats.