Way to go Grassley

Hello again. I saw on the news today that Bush put out a budget proposal labeled Dead on Arrival by the legislature. Our very vocal senators from Iowa blasted it also. Iowa is a tale of two parties. There is Senator Harkin, a democrat, is often in the news for various things including criticism for government needless spending of office supplies years ago and an annual steakfry near my hometown where celebrity politicians are viewed. By his quotes read on TV, I think he hates Bush as much as me. He greatly criticized Bush over wanting them to ok a blank check to spend on Bush Wars. Today he objects to many of Bush's cuts and then wild spending in the military and home security, my words not his.
The other is Senator Grassley, a republican, who visits all 99 counties in Iowa yearly. One day over 10 years he came to speak at my high school. My Dad said once to vote for the republican senator, even though my Dad often says to vote only for democrats because the watch out for the poor, since he will win anyway because everybody knows his name. When President Clinton was nearly impeached, our senators voted with their party as usual. Grassley was no fan of Clinton.
Today I saw Senator Grassley first give a vague statement to a reporter outside the capitol about the budget, then during an interview criticized the budget plan calling it "disportionate to the farmers". Way to go Senator Grassley. He objected the cuts in education and farming subsidies. He should if he wants to keep his job.
I think there was also a loophole closed today which allowed large corporations in farming industries money from the government. I ask you why do multi-million dollar corporations need govenment subsidies equal to the struggling farmer trying to stay afloat so he can pass down his land to his children? I'm glad the legislature agreed with me for once. Though I find it amusing that a president who signed a "No child left behind" act without funds to raise standards demanded from it, now wants to chop funds for education. I guess my former manager will be still buying office supplies for her son's school secretary like she did when I worked with her a couple years ago. Nothing has changed. My sister the school librarian is a witness in that.