The Senate Budget Committee was discussing the budget legislation yesterday when an exchange occurred between Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) that proved the latter to be quick on his feet and the former to be an overgrown ten year old: 

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.

That is how ingrained the mentality of silver spooned Bible thumping cum schoolyard bully is in a large portion of the Republican Party. Instead of responding to Conrad with wit- or even just telling him off- Grassley tried to make him look like “less of a man” by joking about sleeping with his wife (as Melissa points out, wife=property in RepubliSpeak). 

I didn’t write anything when Grassley made those comments about the AIG executives killing themselves because it was fairly obvious he was speaking metaphorically. But maybe the good Senator should stop trying to show off for his buddies and start working to improve our government.