I can’t tell you how awesome this is. I’m sure this is a direct result of the forum that Specter spoke at this morning. During the forum he was asked about Grassley’ spreading disinformation on health care (specifically “death panels”) and he promised that he would call Chuck Grassley right after he spoke. Some people observed and reported that he did, in fact, call Grassley and left him a message. So, I guess Specter (or a staffer) went to Twitter and now a war has broken out.
Earlier today, Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Penn., tweeted under his twitter handle “@SenArlenSpecter”: “Called Senator Grassley to tell him to stop speading (sic) myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.’”
Specter was referring to Grassley’s comment about the end of life care provisions in the House Democrats’ health care reform bill earlier this week in Winterset, Iowa.
“In the House bill, there is counseling for end of life,” Grassley said. “You have every right to fear. You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life, you should have done that 20 years before. Should not have a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on grandma.”
Moments ago, Grassley responded on his twitter account, which is under the name “@ChuckGrassley.”
“Specter got it all wrong that I ever used words ‘death boards’,” Grassley wrote. “Even liberal press never accused me of that. So change ur last Tweet Arlen.”