(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Chuck Grassley- 2023 Update [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-09-30 In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, an octogenarian who has served in Congress since 1975, and been a U.S. Senator since 1981. We shared the hilarity of Grassley's Twitter feed, with brilliant examples of wordsmithing like, ”N”, ”Work on farm Fri. Burning piles of brush WindyFire got out of control. Thank God for good naber He help get undr control PantsBurnLegWound”, ”Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville. After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm. Assume deer dead”, and "Windsor Heights Dairy Queen is good place for u kno what”. Oh, and the time on Twitter he compared President Obama's foreign policy to Poland's foreign policy that led to Hitler invading in 1939. Our main beef with Sen. Grassley was that as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and therefore gets to decide on confirmation of judges and Supreme Court nominees, and goddamn has been partisan and obstructive in that role. Merrick Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama but Grassley, more than anyone in the Republican Senate, is responsible for shirking their Constitutional duty to appoint a successor to the late Antonin Scalia and admitted the logic was purely political. We also took issue with Sen. Grassley’s behavior regarding the Trump/Russia investigation, as on multiple occasions over the past year and a half, Grassley has gone out of his way to either cast doubt on the mounting evidence, such as when he tried insinuating that the Steele Dossier was the REAL fake news planted by the Russians, or even when he released a statement to blame the FBI for not telling the Trump campaign that Paul Manafort was leaking information from the Trump campaign to Russian oligarchs (which ignores how they probably should have been aware when one of them sent agents to Trump Tower to meet with Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump, Jr.). His allegiance to Trump has become so cancerous that Sen. Grassley flat out refuses to conduct Senate hearings on political appointees if he thought that they in some way participated in the Mueller investigation. At this point, Grassley is doing more to aid the Trump administration in a coverup than preventing future Russian interference. We can't say we don't also take issue with Grassley's voting record during the Trump administration, as he voted to confirm every member of Donald Trump's Cabinet of Horrors, and saw his obstruction against Merrick Garland… If there were any doubt anyone still had about how utterly partisan Chuck Grassley is, it was during the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, who made his career investigating the Clintons during Whitewater and trying to foment conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton murdering Vince Foster… a guy who perjured himself in his confirmation to be a federal judge multiple times…. THAT was the pick. And Sen. Grassley knew… KNEW all the dirt that’s out there on Kavanaugh. It’s why he and the Trump White House refused to make documents about Kavanaugh’s work unavailable to the Senators who would vote on them, and why he literally opened the hearings shouting over the reasonable requests by Democrats to release those documents and allow Kavanaugh’s record to be legitimately reviewed. So it looked like the final vote on Kavanaugh would go through strictly along partisan lines, 51-49… until a woman emerged to accuse Kavanaugh of attempting to drunkenly rape her when she was 15 and he was 17. Now, you’re really seeing how single-minded and gutless Chuck Grassley is, as he wanted to “investigate” the matter by not letting the FBI look into it, and conducting a sham hearing where only two witnesses will be called, Kavanaugh, and ONE of his accusers, and Senate Republicans could harass a woman already traumatized decades ago by her sexual assault. And that upon learning of a second accuser, Grassley and his colleagues actually tried to force the vote FASTER, and blocked the second accuser, Deborah Ramirez from testifying or having the FBI investigate her claims. After trying to open the hearing with 15 minutes of grandstanding, Sen. Grassley forgot to introduce and thank the witness, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, for coming forward, and after his time to speak was up and he ceded to the late Sen. Diane Feinstein… he interrupted her after SHE introduced Ford to insist he didn’t forget. But through all that, do you know who Chuck Grassley thinks the victim in all this is? CHUCK GRASSLEY. Yes, in an interview Grassley whined about how he didn’t like when it’s mentioned that he’s so old, and feels that he is being DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. You’re pushing ninety now, Chuck. You’d think you’d have developed a good calloused hide by now. His voting record, just since 2020: No deer that Chuck Grassley posted about killing on Twitter has had one of their family members come to avenge them, so now, in the year 2022, Grassley won re-election to an eighth term in office at 89 years old, and while we’d like to know how much Sen. Grassley knew about the coup attempt Donald Trump attempted on January 6th, 2021, especially given the post he made about stepping in when Mike Pence “does not show up” to certify the vote on Jan 5th… (and boy, John Eastman got reeeeeal nervous when asked about it by investigators) we’re watching for the predictable moment when his grandson works to slide into his grandpa’s seat in Washington, D.C. whenever Chuck does shuffle off the mortal coil based on name recognition alone. We’re already at forty years of having a Grassley in the Senate from Iowa, and it’s looking like Pat is going to try to extend that streak even further when the time comes. One Year Ago, September 29th, 2022: Chuck Grassley (IA)… 2022 Update Two Years Ago, September 29th, 2021: Chuck Grassley (IA)… 2021 Update Three Years Ago, September 29th, 2020: Chuck Grassley (IA)… 2020 Update Four Years Ago, September 29th, 2019: Chuck Grassley (IA)… 2019 Update Five Years Ago, September 29th, 2018: Chuck Grassley (IA)/E.W. Jackson (VA)… 2018 Update Six Year Ago, September 29th, 2017: Chuck Grassley (IA)… 2017 Update Seven Years Ago, September 29th, 2016: Chuck Grassley (IA)… Original Profile Eight Years Ago, September 29th, 2015: E.W. Jackson (VA)… 2015 Update Nine Years Ago, September 29th, 2014: E.W. 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