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Only since the recent rise in popularity of our favorite 140-character messaging service do we actually get to see what some of our most influential leaders are thinking as the thoughts pop into their heads. Inside the head of Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, these thoughts are brutal, banal, and generally make us glad that he doesn’t control America’s nuclear football. Below, five of our favorite Grassley tweets:
The Tweet: Ran 3miles w 5 delegate of the30th annual DsM Partnership at 515am. Barb had oatmeal for all.
The Analysis: I’m glad that a 75-year-old-man can still run 3 miles, but do I really give a crap that your wife knows how to make OATMEAL? Is this something to brag about?
The Tweet: My carbon footprint is abt 25per cent of Al Gore. I’m greener than Al Gore. Is that enuf?
The Analysis: Really, his carbon footprint is greener than a person? Strunk and White are rolling over in their grammarian graves.
The Tweet: Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us”time to deliver” on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND.
The Analysis: FoxNews looked into this Tweet most carefully and Grassley stood by it 100%. I wouldn’t exactly call Obama’s trip abroad — where he marked the 65th anniversary of D-Day and visited the sites of other World War II atrocities — a sightseeing journey. And for the record, George W. Bush spent 487 days at his ranch in Texas during his presidency…
The Tweet: My office softball team beat my Chr Baucus softball team last nite.
The Analysis: This is the guy who criticized Obama for sightseeing in Paris? Get your lazy staff back to work!
The Tweet: Met with new crop of sumer intrns today 1st of 2 6 week sessions I offer in DC office If ur interested in being an intrn ck my website.
The Analysis: I could think of few people who would be more fun to work for than a man who Tweets with as much mindless vigor as Chuck Grassley.
[h/t to my buddy Jim Newell and others at Wonkette for first drawing attention to this Mad Tweeter’s lack of style.]
