Before Hillary Clinton was slated to give a speech bashing the Senate GOP for its blockade of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley used her email controversy to preemptively dismiss the criticisms in an interview with Politico.
“With all the troubles she’s getting on email, and the FBI’s going to question her, I would imagine she’d want to change the tone of her campaign,” Grassley told Politico.
Grassley appeared to be referring to a report by the Los Angeles Times that federal officials, who are investigating whether classified information was mishandled on a private email server Clinton used as secretary of state, have begun contacting Clinton aides in order to conduct interviews.
According to previews of Clinton’s speech, scheduled for Monday afternoon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the former Secretary of State and ex-Senator plans to call out Grassley in particular while attacking Republicans’ refusal to consider Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland.
The Senate Judiciary Committee traditionally hosts hearings for Supreme Court nominations. Grassley and the other Republicans on the committee signed a letter vowing not to hold any hearings on Obama’s nominee because, they argued, the confirmation of a successor to late Justice Antonin Scalia should wait until after the next president is elected.
The White House and its allies have taken some Republicans’ wobbling on that hard line as a sign that cracks in the blockade are growing. Grassley held firm in his interview with Politico, however.
“I want to spend my time on doing things we’re going to accomplish and you know ahead of time that this isn’t going to be approved,” Grassley said. “So spend your time on things that …we can do in a bipartisan way instead of in a partisan way.”
LOL. That pic cracks me up. He so obviously thinks he 's smarter than he is.
If anyone is looking for a place to send that old dildo they never use anymore…
Chuck Grassley
135 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224 - 3744
Fax: (202) 224-6020
Do what in a bipartisan way? Block the SCOTUS nomination?
This old frog gets crazier by the minute.
You know, at some point Hillary needs to SUE one of these bastards for claiming “The FBI is going to question her.”
I know she is a “public figure” but I would LOVE a court to demand Grassley explain where he gets his FBI information from if it is true, and to publicly retract those statements and pay out the nose if he admits he is lying about it.
A juvenile counter attack is pretty par for the course with Republicans. However, the fun aspect of this is that it arises from the pressure Grassley is feeling as senators run away from his stance and other republicans are pointing out that it is self destructive and stupid.
I was in Iowa last week and the Grassley Groupies are flooding the airwaves with lies (ads) attacking Obama and defending Chuckie’s refusal to do his job.
This hypocritical fool started his political career in 1959, making a name for himself in the state legislature with a crusade against sex education in public schools. Once a douchebag, always a douchebag.