Grassley Should Be Recalled

Here's a YouTube video clip containing Iowa Senator Grassley's call for AIG executives to commit suicide.



I thought the Senate was supposed to be the country's "deliberative" body. These remarks by Grassley are reprehensible and inappropriate for an elected federal government official.

Yesterday, on Glenn Beck's Fox News program, psychologist Drew Pinsky decried Grassley's outburst as signifying a dangerous populism more akin to the French Revolution than our own, more reasoned and principled American Revolution.

I find Grassley to be tremendously irritating. From his grandmotherly rasping voice and similar glasses to his annoying Iowan farmer's perspective, his naivete, which the Senator mistakes for common sense, he has become, for me, emblematic of what is wrong with Congress.

Grassley demands corporate contrition for the US financial sector woes, but conveniently sidesteps his own and his colleagues' culpability in allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to swell to dangerous sizes, as well as forcing banks to make CRA mortgage loans which contributed to the current dilemma.

Perhaps the Senator will favor us all with a live demonstration on himself of how the AIG executives might follow up on Grassley's demand.