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Chuck Grassley, King of Pork

His swinish war on American pocketbooks continues.

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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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Taxes, Education, Health Care, Barack Obama, Business, Earmarks, Environment, NATO, Conservatism

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Matt Kibbe is president of the grassroots organization FreedomWorks and author, with Dick Armey, of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto.

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…with busy skeduls/even workinWKEND. (Capitalized, you see, to highlight the abject unfairness of having to stay in the infernal Babylon for an extra few days. It’s hard out here for a agricultural pimp.) As if this weren’t enough to keep us proles amused, Grassley shortly followed up his Wildean wit with another tweet: Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said ‘time to delivr on…

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