A twittering Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said Sunday that President Obama has no right to tell Congress “to deliver on healthcare” because the president is chilling in Paris while lawmakers are working away to resolve the issue.

"Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us 'time to deliver' on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND," an angry Sen. Charles Grassley fired off in one of his mass text-messages, which he calls “tweets." 

He then pecked out a second, similar tweet: "Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said 'time to delivr on healthcare' When you are a 'hammer' u think evrything is NAIL I'm no NAIL."

A spokesman for Grassley confirmed that the senator indeed sent the message, according to CNN.

Ironically, David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser, had said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that Grassley was one reason that the administration was holding out the hope that a bipartisan deal, to extend coverage to some 50 million Americans, could be hammered out.

"I would hope people of both parties would get together. I was encouraged by Sen. Grassley's comments in the last few days suggesting that he thought we could get there," Axelrod said. "So I think we'll be able to build a bipartisan support for it. But we have to move forward with it, I think it is a critical situation for the country and our economy and our future."