On Face the Nation this morning, Bob Schieffer asked Chuck Grassley about his "pulling the plug on grandma" comment. Here is a summary of their discussion:

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Schieffer also asked Grassley why he alluded to the health care legislation including a clause which would "pull the plug on Grandma" during a town hall meeting in Iowa last week.

The senator said he was responding to a constituent’s question.

"The specific language I used was language that the president had used in Portsmouth," Grassley said.

He said his constituents are concerned that the issue of end of life counseling is being connected with a government run option.

"You are scaring a lot of people," he said. "I know that the Pelosi bill doesn’t intend to do that but that is where it leads people to."

Finally, Grassley admitted that end of life counseling options "will not do that."

He quickly asserted that "doctors giving you some advice at the end of life" comes with an $8 billion dollar price tag.

He also stated that Senator Conrad could back up that he had been worried about putting an end of life clause in the Finance Committee bill back in March because he thought that anything about end of life issues would scare his constituents.

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I guess that Senator Grassley really thinks that many of his constituents are too dumb to understand what a living will or end-of-life directive is.

Sadly Grassley is right, many do not understand, or they would have voted this too old asshole out of office years ago. He is a good example of the need for term limits.

I heard how Grassley tried to cover his s,ah,er tracks this morning