Shut up, Chuck Grassley

By Michael J.W. Stickings

TPM:

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has long been a vocal critic of the Democrat's health reform efforts, but today he started taking credit for some provisions of the bill, and talking up his own role in crafting the legislation.

You had your chance, Senator, and you chose partisan obstructionism over bipartisan compromise, like every other Republican on Capitol Hill:

Grassley has been among the most vocal opponents of Democratic reform over the past year, but he's also known as one of the biggest flip-floppers on the issue.

At the start of the process, Grassley was expected to be among those Senators working to craft a bipartisan bill. But it wasn't long before he abandoned that effort, and helped to start the "death panel" meme heard at town halls across the country throughout last summer.

And you have zero credibility.

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For more on Grassley and health-care reform, see:

-- A tale of two Republican sentators (on health-care reform and those "death panels");

-- Chasing rabbits;

-- Quotes of the Day: Paul Krugman and Robert Reich; and

-- The truth about Charles Grassley (and health-care reform).