We cats were thrilled by Douglas High student Emma Gonzalez's entire "We Call BS" speech yesterday — a tour de force if there ever was one — but we were particularly happy that she called out Iowa's Republican senior Senator, Chuck Grassley, for his mendacity on the mentally impaired, guns and the FBI.
It was Grassley's own legislation last year that not only made firearms more available to the mentally ill, it forbade the FBI from being alerted to the sales. Yet one day after the Parkland school shooting, Grassley was screaming on TV about how those names need to be in the FBI's database.
This contradiction has been pointed out by others, but Gonzalez had a unique platform yesterday. With the eyes of the world upon her, she slammed Grassley for his hypocrisy and lies.
So, let's revisit an Iowa Senate race, shall we? Not Grassley's re-election — but the 2014 race to replace the retiring Tom Harkin. The Democratic candidate, Bruce Braley, was slammed up one side and down the other when he said that flipping Harkin's seat from Democratic to Republican (in this case, to Joni Ernst) would also be a vote for Grassley — "a farmer who never went to law school" — to chair the Judiciary Committee. People went crazy, and he was forced to apologize.
Okay, we're the first to admit that Braley was an imperfect candidate. But he'd be a thousand times better than Ernst (who has an "A" rating from the NRA). And God knows he was right about the losing the Senate majority — and that Grassley is a moron. Take a bow, Bruce. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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