We Don't Need Non Attorney Types As Comittee Chairmen...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Well by gosh, unless you're a lawyer you apparently can't represent your constituents or handle ethical and complex issues properly. At least according to Iowa democratic senate candidate Braley. What is more likely, and certainly a lot more truthful is that we have too damn many lawyers and shysters in the senate already. The remarks by Braley, a trial lawyer and congressman who is running in the high-stakes open race for retiring U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s seat, quickly caught fire on Twitter and various national news sites, as politics watchers predicted that this incident will bruise a campaign that they’ve been confident would see victory in November. And Grassley’s staff pulled no punches in responding this today, National Agriculture Day, when a statue of an Iowa ag hero was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol. “If you help me win this race,” Braley says in the video, posted online by a donor after the Jan. 23...