Did Grassley's grandson vote pull the plug on grandma?

[ccharles000]

"U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley today disappointed the vast majority of Iowans when he engaged in the lowest form of political mudslinging by repeating the vicious slur that health reform may ‘pull the plug on grandma.’...

"Senator Grassley should understand the value of this legislation. If he has sincere concerns, he could ask his grandson about the issue. Pat Grassley, who now holds Senator Grassley’s former seat in the Iowa House of Representatives, voted in 2008 for the same legislation that Senator Grassley now calls pulling the plug on grandma.

Iowa State Senator Joe Bolkcom

FACT: On April 25, 2008, Senator Grassley’s grandson VOTED for similar "end-of-life care" legislation in the Iowa Legislature

In 2008 the Iowa Legislature overwhelmingly approved House File 2539, a major health reform bill that was later signed into law by Governor Chet Culver. The legislation included several provisions to help seniors and their families make informed decisions with their end-of-life care.

Pat Grassley, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley’s grandson, represents Senator Grassley’s hometown of New Hartford in the Iowa House of Representatives. On April 25, 2008, Representative Pat Grassley voted with the majority, 93 to 3, to approve House File 2539. It also passed the Iowa Senate with a similar bipartisan majority of 37 to 6.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/12/765862/-Did-Grassleys-grandson-vote-pull-the-plug-on-grandma

[eleny]

1. Olbermann needs to learn this nugget of fact

Rec'd.

[Barack_America]

2. Grassley's grandson wants to pull the plug on him?

Wow. Sounds to me like a public disownment is in order.

[Critters2]

4. Really, can ya blame him?

:hide:

[Barack_America]

6. Not in the least.

I was trying to stir the pot a bit.

;)

[donheld]

9. Tell him to hurry it up!

[WCGreen]

3. Karma's a fucking bitch now ain't it Chuck...

[grantcart]

5. Now if God were to reach over and pull Grassley's plug tonight when he is sleeping

It would be one of the great miracles since Lazarus.

[ccharles000]

7. kick

[annm4peace]

8. sorry, just have to paste this on Grassley and the Family everywhere I see his name

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Yeah, dictator of Somalia. It’s, to me, one of the scariest stories that I found in their archives. I was able to recreate this, because they dumped 600 boxes of papers in the Billy Graham archives. Siad Barre was a—not a likely candidate for Christian right recruitment, called himself a Koranic Marxist. But in the early ’80s, the Soviets had abandoned him. There had been a power shift between Somalia and Ethiopia. He was in the market for a new patron. And working through Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, of course still in office—

Indeed. And Grassley has been involved with the organization for quite some time, since the ’80s, when he traveled to Somalia to join Barre, Siad Barre, in prayer to Jesus. And he brought with him a defense contractor named Bill Brehm.

And Barre was a kind of a cynical character, as you might expect for a dictator. He was very clear. He says, “I’m willing to pray to Jesus, and here’s what I want in return.” He says, “I want my defense budget doubled.” He says, “I want meetings for my officials with the Reagan White House. And I want a sort of a hands-off policy while I crack down on some rebels.” Doug Coe, the leader of the group, wrote back, in essence, “Done, done and done.”

And when we look at history, so it was. And Barre used those weapons, supplied to him in part by the US, to wage a war of almost biblical proportion on his own people, from which Somalia has not recovered to this day. The Family doesn’t consider that a failure; they consider that God’s will for Somalia.