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
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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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