What Fucking Year Is It?

So the Senate Budget Committee is debating the budget legislation yesterday, when Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), last seen exhorting AIG executives to kill themselves, brought up a two-year-old exchange with the committee chairperson, Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), in an attempt to coerce Conrad into including an amendment Grassley had proposed.

And when Conrad responded by laughing and mirthfully grousing, "Oh, you are good," Grassley came back with, "Your wife said the same thing."

Grassley: It's going to be a major item that we're dealing with. And I'd like to suggest to the chairman that he might want to support this because, you remember, you asked me two years ago not to take a vote on it, and you said that if we did take a vote on it, you might not get your budget resolution adopted. And so I did not ask for a vote on it, and you said it was a very statesmanlike thing for me to do at that particular time, and so I would hope you would return the favor.
Conrad: You know, I used to like you. [laughs] Let me just say… Oh, you are good.

Grassley: Your wife said the same thing.

Conrad: She did; she said you were the biggest hit of all the speakers at the event.

Grassley: Okay.
Conrad's getting kudos for not missing a beat in his comeback to Grassley (at least by those who aren't praising Grassley for "getting Conrad good," because you know how insulting a man's property wife is an awesome slam against him), but, quite frankly, I would have been more impressed if Conrad had drawn the entire proceeding to a screeching halt, told Grassley he was way the hell out of line, and asked for Grassley's wildly inappropriate and misogynist comment be stricken from the Congressional record.

Instead, it's business as usual at the Old Boys' Club.

[H/T to Shaker Justin.]

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