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Charles Grassley has a Twitter following for a reason

  April 10, 2012

As a matter of decorum alone, Senator Charles Grassley should have known better than to tweet Saturday that President Obama is “stupid.’’ Yet the Iowa senator’s snippy comments, hardly his first about a Democratic president he clearly doesn’t like, read like awkward excesses on an otherwise fascinating Twitter feed. The 78-year-old Republican could easily do what some of his colleagues do: assign younger staffers to tap out PR messages for him. Instead, Grassley is working out how to use a new communications medium in full view of his constituents.

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