The American Spectator

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Chuck Grassley, King of Pork

By Matt Kibbe on 6.10.08 @ 12:07AM

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Yet Grassley remains a leading Republican with the power and status of an established Senator. That's too bad, because what he offers isn't conservatism, or principled leadership of any kind. It is instead the worst kind of self-interested deal making, based solely on convenience, with utterly no consideration of the public good.

Economist Thomas Sowell once said, "the assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse."

And in every tax hike, ethanol mandate, and wasteful earmark Grassley pushes, that assumption survives today. If conservatives are serious about reestablishing their fiscally responsible brand, they'll need to do better than big-spending oinkers like this senior senator from the Hawkeye State.

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