Senator Chuck Grassley's comments about Obama pulling the plug on grandma have given him a lot of attention the last couple weeks! The lead Republican negotiator on health care in the Senate was involved in the Super Old Man Twitter War with Senator Arlen Specter, and has been hounded by the press for his comments about grandma.

But apparently, as a paragraph buried on the second page of a Washington Post article noted, Senator Grassley doesn't actually believe what he's been saying about the Obama plan:

Grassley drew strong rebukes from Democrats after he seemed to suggest at one
town hall that conservatives were justified in worrying that a provision in the
House version of the legislation that pays for end-of-life consultations would
lead to the federal government playing a role in deciding when to "pull the plug
on Grandma." Grassley says he opposes that counseling as written in the House
version of the bill, but a spokesman said the senator does not think the House
provision would in fact give the government such authority in deciding when and
how people die. The House bill allows patients to decide for themselves if they
would like such counseling.

This week also had Joe Scarborough, conservative talk host on MSNBC's Morning Joe, admitting that "the public option is not a government take over of health care." Now that the public option isn't actually looking like it's going to survive, some Republicans are trying to look reasonable on this issue, and hopefully we'll all just forget their silliness of that last few weeks.