Senator John Grindl: stand the devil side by side with The President and the Devil comes across as a class act

Seantor John Grindl (D - East Dakota)

Reacting to President Chavez of Venezuela's United Nations denunciation of President Bush as "the devil," Democratic U.S. Senator John Grindl (D - East Dakota) concurred with Chavez's assessment. "In fact," the Senator said in a press conference, "President Bush is even more heinous than The Great Deceiver himself." A reporter asked how that was so, and he replied "Let's face it, the Devil tempts people to do evil, whereas Bush actually performs evil. Senator Pelosi and Congressman Rangel have leapt to The President's defense, and it is strictly political expediency. The Devil is known to lure people into evil ways. The President actually performs evil acts under the mantle of his office. He performs them in our name. I can't even recall the last time the Devil was blamed for the state of the world. You can't say that about President Bush."

"The bottom line: stand the Devil side by side with The President and the Devil comes off as a class act."

Asked by an Associated Press correspondent why he bucked his party, the Senator responded "Pelosi and Rangel know the score. They know Bush is evil incarnate. But being party regulars, the last thing they want to do is to offend the centrists by denouncing 'POTUS.' They know Bush is a worthless piece of s***. But as loyal partisans, they are muzzled. You may hear them speak the truth after the mid-terms, but I wouldn't hold out much hope."


click to enlarge photograph of President Hugo Chavez

Following his inflammatory remarks, the Senator's conservative East Dakota constituents reacted predictably with demands for his resignation, and talk of a recall. Reached later in the day by a reporter from All This Is That, the Senator told her that "this is all predictable. There's a reason I am the Senator and my constituents are not. Have you ever been to East Dakota? It's not exactly the Berkeley of The Plains. Sure, they're pissed today, but this will blow over and I will be vindicated. Or not. Maybe they'll elect some cracker knucklehead to curtsy to the President, but that's not me. The bottom line: stand the devil side by side with The President and the Devil comes off as a class act."

Democrats reacted predictably as well, by denouncing Grindl as a rogue and a loose canon. "He no more speaks for the Democratic Party," said Senator Patty Murray (D - Washington) "than President Chavez does." Democratic insiders on The Hill told All This Is That that Senator Grindl would be immediately and brutally taken to the woodshed.

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