Iowa Cafe Serves #DoYourJob Menu In Honor Of Grassley-Garland Meeting

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

The Ritual Cafe in Des Moines, Iowa served up a hot breakfast to customers Tuesday morning that commemorated its senator’s meeting with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, affectionately calling the menu the “Chuck Grassley #DoYourJob.”

The cafe served up dishes including “obstruction oats,” “Supreme Court scrambled eggs,” “needthenine.org burrito,” “justice delayed bowl,” “Constitution quiche” and “Garland’s granola,” and drinks like a “confirmation coffee,” “Article 2 iced toddy” and “advice and consent cappuccino.”

The owner of the cafe, Denise Diaz, told TPM in a phone interview that she had been approached by Progress Iowa, a progressive advocacy group, about changing her menu for a few hours the morning of Grassley’s meeting with Garland. Diaz said she thought it was a good way to remind patrons what their senator was up to in Washington.

She said she then worked with Progress Iowa to iron out new titles for some of the cafe’s breakfast mainstays. “Why Courts Matter,” an advocacy campaign for the Center for American Progress, also helped. The menu ran for a limited time only, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tuesday.

“We have had a great response from customers,” Diaz told TPM. “I do believe people have thought this out. People believe in the same cause. I have not had any naysayers.”

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  1. Great example of “the people’s voice”. Too bad Grasshat won’t be listening.

  2. Well done! Keep up the pressure. I like that he feels compelled to comment every day. He’s just digging deeper.

  3. Bwahaha. I wear my “Mitch Please” Shirt to the gym.

    =)

  4. when do we get to see Mr SnodGrassley’s answering video a la Rick ‘Skeletor’ Scott… will it show him puking in an alley claiming it was the food?

    btw… did the menu include corn fed chuck steak? and a couple shots of corn whiskey to stiffen Mr SnodGrassley’s spine?

  5. LOL, good job! (and their food looks pretty good, too!).

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