be very worried about dealing with senator grassley now? in a sense grassley views he just put his finger in the dike, that doesn t sound like a very good position to be in. if you are a republican senator. right? that sounds like the dam is about to break. look, grassley look. you don t know what grassley s position is when he is negotiating behind closed doors. and what he s doing when he s being a populist senator in front of his constituents and playing to the crowned. inside game and outside game. we don t know how what the gap is between the two of them. roger, does this sound to you like an iowa senator in iowa saying what his audience wants to hear, ready to go back to washington and work hard in the back room on health care reform? it sounds to pea like an iowa politician playing to the crowd. he doesn t need to scare seniors in iowa. it is what he is doing. to put it in context, iowa in terms of the age of the population is one of the oldest states of th