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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 10:29 AM Aug 2012

Sen Charles Grassley (R-IA) calls Romney a 'stupid back stabber'

Responding to Romney's plan to kill energy production and thousands of jobs in Iowa, long time conservative Senator Chuck Grassley called Romney "stupid" and a "back stabber" at two town hall meetings.



In his unabated campaign to piss off every possible voter, Mitt Romney called for the cancellation of tax credits for wind energy, a move that would kill 37,000 good paying jobs nationwide.

In Iowa alone, 7,000 people are employed in the wind energy sector, producing a quarter of the state's electric power.

Why would Romney do something so heartless? To pay for tax cuts for the rich, naturally.

At a town hall meeting in rural Iowa, Chuck Grassley, Iowa's conservative Senator for 32 years, said,


"I'm the author of the wind energy tax credit of 1992, and there were people from outside the state came into Iowa and issued a press release that the Republican candidate for president was opposed to wind energy, and I felt it was just like a knife in my back".
Calling Romney's proposal an insult, Grassley continued his attack on the Republican standard-bearer at a different town hall meeting:

"when you think at a time of 8.2 percent unemployment there would be any question that you wouldn't want to lay off 4,000 more people in the state of Iowa and probably 25,000 people nationwide, but that's kind of what's at stake here."
Grassley concluded by saying,

"I don't know who's behind it and I'm going to find out who's behind it, and expose them and tell them how stupid their policy is."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/16/1120714/-Republican-Senator-Calls-Romeny-a-Stupid-Back-Stabber

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Sen Charles Grassley (R-IA) calls Romney a 'stupid back stabber' (Original Post) WI_DEM Aug 2012 OP
Dumbass Grassley just woke up to the fact that his party is owned by Coal and Oil? Ikonoklast Aug 2012 #1
The Koch brothers, specifically. Heavily invested in fossil fuels. nt DCKit Aug 2012 #4
On August 9th I wondered if Romney had lost his mind over the issue. grantcart Aug 2012 #2
As to this statement.... madmom Aug 2012 #3

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
1. Dumbass Grassley just woke up to the fact that his party is owned by Coal and Oil?
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 11:08 AM
Aug 2012

Shocked! Shocked, I say!

Renewable sources of energy are this country's future, period, The quicker we transition off of coal for electricity generation the better off our country, our planet will be.

The biggest fight of the next generation of Americans will be that of the fossil fuel industry desperately trying to retain the stranglehold it has on this country's political and economic system.

The amount of money at their disposal is staggering.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
2. On August 9th I wondered if Romney had lost his mind over the issue.
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 12:32 PM
Aug 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014183554#post16



6. He has lost his mind.

Even if that is what you want to do it you don't tell people.

Are they not aware that tens of thousands of rural farmers pick up extra money with wind turbine placements?

Really these guys have to get off the golf course.



They really have no idea what is happening 4 yards beyound their field of vision. They could well have lost the election on this one stupid statement, and to what advantage? It is mind numbing stupid from a purely strategic point of view. Even if you are going to stab all these people in the back for no good reason you don't actuallyl tell them that ahead of the election.

madmom

(9,681 posts)
3. As to this statement....
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 12:43 PM
Aug 2012

""when you think at a time of 8.2 percent unemployment there would be any question that you wouldn't want to lay off 4,000 more people in the state of Iowa and probably 25,000 people nationwide, but that's kind of what's at stake here."


You would if you wanted Obama to be seen as a failure!

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