Senator Chuck Grassley posts series of curious chirps about dead pigeon
While the rest of America obsessed Saturday over the course Sen. Chuck Grassley and his colleagues might chart in replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, the Iowa lawmaker fixed his attention on a downed pigeon.
“If u lost ur pet pidgin /it’s dead in front yard my Iowa farm,” Grassley, an inventive speller at age 87, chirped on Twitter. “JUST DISCOVERED.”
The Republican senator added a series of identifiers for the bird before punctuating the tweet: “Sorry for bad news.”
Grassley has gained a reputation for flying funky, oddly punctuated missives onto social media. In 2012, he posted several times about deer he came across.
“Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville,” he wrote in October 2012. “After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm. Assume deer dead.”
Grassley started cooing about bucks on Saturday during his avian exposition too.
“I assumed deer dead bc it was night and no carcas,” Grassley tweeted about two hours after his initial pigeon post.
Three minutes later, he added: “But in case of this pidgin i could actually pick up bird."
Grassley, the former head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held up the comfirmation process of Judge Merrick Garland in 2016, saying President Barack Obama’s choice shouldn’t receive a hearing during the final year of the administration.
On Saturday evening, Grassley didn’t publicly offer thoughts on President Trump’s plans to ram through a replacement for Ginsburg, who died Friday, with Election Day looming in under seven weeks.
But the legislator left no doubt about the status of the doomed bird.
“No life whatsoever,” he tweeted.
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