John, did you see this?

Republican Senators, who work about half the year, are complaining because they have to go to work.

Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who is running for his EIGHTH TERM, and would be 95 years old when it ends if elected, tweeted out his anger at the fact he has to be in Washington for a job he just can't seem to quit, voting on truly groundbreaking legislation.

This is what he tweeted this last Friday: “Each Dec Schumer puts out schedule for Senate I set Grassley family reunion based on schedule. For 2nd yr in row I won’t be at reunion I’m in DC to fight Dems irresponsible tax&spend bill. Need a Republican majority hv schedule we can count on & a RESPONSIBLE FISCAL AGENDA”

Are you kidding me? Can you imagine if any of us whined about a job where we work 171 days of the year--including every Friday off--the way Grassley does here? We'd be fired, of course. 

If poor Chuck, who first got to the Senate in 1980, when the Rubik's Cube came out, John Lennon was shot and The Empire Strikes Back was released, hates this job so much, why is he running for another six-year term, just like the past seven times?

We need Admiral Mike Franken in Washington. Can you give $2, $5, $10 or whatever you can afford to help send him to Washington and Chuck Grassley back to Iowa where he'll be far from electoral college certification and can attend all the family reunions he'd like?

Worse yet the bill Grassley is complaining about--the Inflation Reduction Act--includes the biggest step ever taken by the U.S. to fight climate change, allow Medicare to finally bulk negotiate for prescriptions, saving many seniors thousands of dollars every year, place a minimum tax on big corporations so they can't get away with paying little to nothing and will crack down on wealthy tax cheats. Grassley, who voted for Trump's ludicrous budget-busting tax cut, is set to vote against this while talking about a "responsible fiscal agenda." 

Grassley, of course, was also suspiciously close to Trump's coup, tweeting out on January 6th that he'd be certifying the electoral votes, something historically done by Vice Presidents. Why didn't Grassley expect Mike Pence to be there? What did he know that we didn't? I sure hope the Jan 6th Committee gets to the bottom of it.