From Justin at One Iowa: One Iowa has launched an online campaign to encourage Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley to speak out against legislation in Uganda that would endanger the lives of gay Ugandans. The legislation would inflict severe penalties upon gay Ugandans, up to and including the death penalty . As a member of the fundamentalist group "The Family," Senator Grassley has been an influential...
by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz Executive Director, Center for Islamic Pluralism After the recent slaughter at Fort Hood , Texas , commentators and politicians have asked whether political correctness or fear of being criticized as Islamophobic discouraged his colleagues in the military from thoroughly examining the extremist beliefs of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused killer in the military-base...
Dennis Sanders: "The Case For Trying 9/11 Terrorist In New York" The moderate Republican blogger in Minnesota opines : "There has been a lot of talk about how a trial could result in [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] walking free. Senator Chuck Grassley, a politician that [I] respect, has nonetheless come out with one of the most asinine statements, likening the upcoming trial to the OJ Simpson...
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s comparison of civilian trials for terrorists to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson is “false and disrespectful,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Thursday. While questioning Attorney General Eric Holder about the idea of prosecuting five men accused as co-conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks in a federal court in New [...]
Earlier today, Sam Stein reported on Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), taking a new approach to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed terror-trial fearmongering by raising the specter of O.J. Simpson. I gather that what Grassley wanted to convey was an scenario in which the ghost of Johnnie Cochran gets KSM acquitted, because of racism, and then the terrorist is set free, to become some sort of golf-course-haunting...
? IA-Sen/Gov : The newest Des Moines Register poll by Selzer & Co. has some appalling numbers for Democrats. In the Senate race, Chuck Grassley leads Democratic challenger Roxanne Conlin 57-30. And in the gubernatorial race, incumbent Dem Chet Culver trails Republican ex-Gov. Terry Branstad by almost as wide a margin, 57-33 (with Culver also trailing conservative GOPer Bob vander Plaats 45-37,...
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has a 2010 challenger. Here is an announcement from Iowa: Together, I know we can take on the Washington special interests and fight for a voice that gives relief to Main Street, not Wall Street. Help small business grow, instead of shipping jobs overseas. We have the most educated, skilled workforce right here in Iowa, ready to get this economy back on track -- preserving...
Democrats got their woman in Iowa, expanding the Senate playing field a bit: Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin plans to file paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission next week to run for U.S. Senate next year, adviser Mark Daley said today. Conlin, a Democrat, has said last month she is more likely than not to seek the seat held by five-term Republican Chuck Grassley, but had to work out how...
Via Ben Smith, Radio Iowa reports that Christie Vilsack--wife of the guy currently responsible for grading your meat --might challenge Chuck Grassley in 2010. A couple months ago, Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein argued that Obama screwed up by putting Tom Vilsack in his cabinet when Democrats would have been better served by having the popular former Iowa governor run against Grassley. I think Christie's...
As Streiff noted yesterday , the Senate Finance Committee considered Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) amendment on the health care legislation that would require identification to take advantage of medicaid benefits. Senator Grassley’s position, and the logical position, is that if one is not asked to show identification before taking advantage of a taxpayer funded health care program like...
Big ObamaCare Vote on Tuesday - amendment to get public option re-inserted into the bill: Originally the Senate Finance Committee was to vote on the Public Option Amendments today, but it seems that it has been pushed back until Tuesday September 29, 2009. It has been called the beginning of the battle; in an interview Wednesday night, Charles Schumer is quoted saying, “Tomorrow is the opening...
Next year's campaign in Iowa Senate district 37 will be closely watched statewide and may draw some national attention. Republican State Representative Kent Sorenson has decided to challenge first-term Senator Staci Appel instead of seeking re-election to Iowa House district 74. The socially conservative Sorenson made a splash this summer with his open letter imploring Senator Chuck Grassley to provide...
Republicans decided to attack the individual mandate today, specifically hitting the notion of penalties for not buying insurance. WASHINGTON -- Senior Republicans challenged Democratic plans to require nearly all people to carry health insurance, sharpening attacks on the first day of Senate Finance Committee debate over legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system. The criticism underscored...
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