Grassley Mocks Obama In Bizarre Tweet: Paris Attack ‘Just A DomEstic Crime?’

In this June 11, 2013, photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley says the Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 mil... In this June 11, 2013, photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley says the Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts. He says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to pay the bonuses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) took a swing at President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the terrorist attack Wednesday in Paris that left 12 dead.

The dig came in Grassley’s trademark bizarro Twitter-speak.

In his remarks on the attack, Obama referred to the killers who attacked the Parisian satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo as “terrorists.”

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  1. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Grassley

    Poster -dolt for domestic stupidity…

  2. Avatar for xyxox xyxox says:

    They spoke perfect French with no accent whatsoever which indicates they were born and raised in France. Sounds like an act of Domestic Terrorism to me.

  3. As a humorless fundamentalist himself, Grassley should be keeping his head down at times like this. But you just can’t teach shame.

  4. That’s why he’s known as “Classy Grassley” to no one.

  5. Haiku for Grassley:

    Senators Twitter!
    Creaking thumbs tap out nonsense
    The grands showed 'em how

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