{"id":91168,"date":"2017-09-14T13:29:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/chuck-grassleys-daca-deal-tweet-is-a-postmodern-work-of-art.html"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:29:20","slug":"chuck-grassleys-daca-deal-tweet-is-a-postmodern-work-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/chuck-grassleys-daca-deal-tweet-is-a-postmodern-work-of-art.html","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Grassley&#8217;s DACA &#8216;deal&#8217; tweet is a postmodern work of art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Nobody tweets quite like Chuck Grassley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The senior Iowa senator and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee proved that again Thursday morning with an avant-garde Twitter retort told in a short-hand uniquely his own, responding to reports that President Trump struck a deal with Democrats to protect Dreamers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> Morn news says u made deal w Schumer on DACA\/hv ur staff brief me\/ I know u undercut JudiCimm effort 4 biparty agreement,\u201d Grassley, R-Iowa, tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just pause for a moment to diagram and translate this tweet:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorn news\u201d = morning news<\/p>\n<p>\u201chv ur staff brief me\u201d = Your people need to call my people<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudiCimm\u201d = Judiciary Committee<\/p>\n<p>\u201cbiparty agreement\u201d = bipartisan agreement<\/p>\n<p>Grassley, 83, has a social media reputation for unorthodox abbreviations, often taking the \u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d approach, seen here, in which vowels might as well cost money.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, for his part, denied Thursday morning that any such deal with Democrats was struck, after having dinner with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. He voiced interest in negotiating on a bill to protect DACA recipients \u2013 young illegal immigrants whose protected status would be rescinded as he rolls back the 2012 Obama-era policy \u2013 while insisting that border security would have to be included in any agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\t<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/p12d4KI86i4\/chuck-grassleys-daca-deal-tweet-is-postmodern-work-art.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody tweets quite like Chuck Grassley. The senior Iowa senator and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee proved that again Thursday morning with an avant-garde Twitter retort told in a short-hand uniquely his own, responding to reports that President Trump struck a deal with Democrats to protect Dreamers. \u201c@realDonaldTrump Morn news says u made deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-91168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}