Grayson Health Care Apology to the GOP in Congress

[MulaMan]

that is, the dead - as in republicans - Ron Paul excepted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoITVLWpKB8

[Jay]

Re: Grayson Health Care Apology to the GOP in Congress

that is, the dead - as in republicans - Ron Paul excepted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoITVLWpKB8

Wow, he calls it a "holocaust in America" at the end. Got to give it to him, he doesn't mind saying F you to those who think their crap don't stink.

[Master Shake]

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that is, the dead - as in republicans - Ron Paul excepted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoITVLWpKB8

What an ass.

His party doesn't need any Pub votes to pass any bill. He and the Dems should STFU, pass whatever bill they want, and suffer the consequences of their actions.

[we_are_toast]

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His party doesn't need any Pub votes to pass any bill. He and the Dems should STFU, pass whatever bill they want, and suffer the consequences of their actions.

Couldn't agree with you more!

[Jim Nickerson]

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Here's an essay that suggests Grayson is exactly the sort of elected representative this country sorely needs, unless one thinks what we have now is just fine and dandy.

"Too rich to be bought off, Grayson's been fuckin' with the powerful for a few years now."

I doubt Republican's or Libertarians will be able to read the entire piece, but those of you who have a sense of concern about the your futures in America should enjoy it.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/rep.html

10/01/2009

Rep. Alan Grayson May Just Fuck Your Shit Up:
It's too soon to tell, but there's a good chance that Representative Alan Grayson, he of the "Die Quickly" Republican health care plan, will end up ******* your shit up. Too rich to be bought off, Grayson's been ******* with the powerful for a few years now. As an attorney, he represented whistleblowers, going after the hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud committed by contractors and others in Iraq. He told CNN in April 2006, "The development fund of Iraq was looted by war profiteers and war whores." Check out the huge ass article on him in Vanity Fair from 2007 (and check out that goatee). He went after Halliburton and KBR; he fucked with Dick Cheney. You think a man whose name is a homophone with "boner" is gonna trouble him?

Look, let's be clear: Grayson of Orlando, Florida, is something of a drama queen. Defeating an incumbent Republican in a previously solidly Republican district as part of the Obama wave in 2008, he's an attack dog straight out of old school progressive politics. Here he is in January on President Obama's stimulus plan: "It shelters the homeless, and it heals the sick. It helps us to look forward to a day when we beat our swords into plowshares, our spears into pruning hooks, and when a nation does not lift up a sword against nation anymore." It's a bit over the top, like his Holocaust remark yesterday and his demand that AIG's CEO "name names" of those who received bonuses.

But sometimes those kinds of dramatics can be absolutely energizing, like the second shot of cheap tequila, as when Grayson said, "Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers."

And this dude knows how to apologize to right-wingers. Pushed by Michael Steele to beg forgiveness from Limbaugh like so many Republicans did, Grayson offered, "I’m sorry Limbaugh called for harsh sentences for drug addicts while he was a drug addict. I’m also sorry that he’s bent on seeing America fail. And I’m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being."

Grayson was the member of Congress who authored the grandly symbolic bill attacking executive compensation in the financial firms now owned by all of us, also known as the "Pay for Performance Act," currently somewhere on hold in the Senate after passing the House in April. This would be back when "populist anger" was actually about people against corporations, which, of course, meant conservatives thought it was wrong. Grayson said, "You should not get rich off public money, and you should not get rich off of abject failure...This bill will show which Republicans are so much on the take from the financial services industry that they're willing to actually bless compensation that has no bearing on performance and is excessive and unreasonable. We'll find out who are the people who understand that the public's money needs to be protected, and who are the people who simply want to suck up to their patrons on Wall Street."

The bill caused Fox "news" host Neil Cavuto to lose his shit on the air with Grayson, to the point where Grayson said that Cavuto was conjuring a "paranoid fantasy" about the implications of the bill. Cavuto cursed and spat while Grayson looked like he was wondering if he was going to have to grab Cavuto's jaws to keep him from biting.

Since Grayson said that the Republican plan for health care is "Don't get sick" and "Die quickly," Grayson has become this week's punching bag for conservative wads of fuck who want to equate his words with Rep. Joe "Insert Banjo Music" Wilson's loud "Don't lie" fart during the President's health care speech. Beyond the hypocrisy of the death panel people saying someone's being too mean, it should also be pointed out that Grayson didn't just bray out of nowhere like he was getting fucked by a donkey. He was recognized and speaking in turn. Robert's Rules of Order don't say anything about whether or not a speaker can drip with savage sarcasm.

Yesterday, on The Situation Room with Wolf "Bow Down Before the Sartorial Magnificence of My Beard" Blitzer, the gathered CNN superfriends couldn't comprehend Grayson, as if anger and honesty coming from a Democrat is some unknown species of rhetoric. "They should apologize to America," Grayson said of Republicans calling for him to beg forgiveness. He may as well have said, "Suck my balls."

The best part was when designated Republican Alex "Douche 'Stache" Castellanos asked Grayson which people does the Congressman think he wants to die. Grayson went right back at him, calling Republican ideas "amorphous nonsense," and "Do you really think that tort reform is going to take care of 47 million people?" By the point that Grayson said Republicans were just using the "usual cliches," Castellanos had the look of a straight man who was just shown the **** that was going to fuck him.

It was truly something beautiful because Grayson walked into Wolf Blitzer's house, drank his whiskey, and took a giant shit on CNN's floor. The pundits from Carville to Castellanos to Borger didn't know what the fuck to do with this guy who wasn't going to play by the usual rules of suck up and pander and call for bipartisanship like other Democrats. The closest they've gotten is the occasional Barney Frank appearance, but Grayson is something different, a Democrat who not only has his own balls, but is ripping the nuts off others. "They've been dragging their feet. These -- these are foot dragging, knuckle dragging Neanderthals who think they can dictate policy to America by being stubborn. And I think it's -- the time is over. We had an election. That's it. Now we have to move ahead in just the way the president wants us to," Grayson said, and, oh, the sputtering that happened.

James Carville asked Grayson at the end if he was ready for how his life was going to change. What ought to be happening is that Democrats should be using Grayson as their point person, sending him out to take a wrecking ball to the stick houses of arguments Republicans keep constructing. Republicans have never known how to deal with it when someone fights back with the same brutality they use. Grayson just pointed out that motherfuckers fuck their mothers. It's that simple.

[ricket]

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What an ass.

His party doesn't need any Pub votes to pass any bill. He and the Dems should STFU, pass whatever bill they want, and suffer the consequences of their actions.

Have you watched any of his videos grilling people? This guy makes lifelong attorneys talk themselves into a corner. I could sit and watch this guy slice into people (especially those at the Federal Reserve) all day.

While he's technically a Democrat, if we could get a few more people like him with various flavors of idealogy (slightly conservative, libertarian, etc), but the same level of balls, our country would be alot better off.

[Master Shake]

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Have you watched any of his videos grilling people? This guy makes lifelong attorneys talk themselves into a corner. I could sit and watch this guy slice into people (especially those at the Federal Reserve) all day.

While he's technically a Democrat, if we could get a few more people like him with various flavors of idealogy (slightly conservative, libertarian, etc), but the same level of balls, our country would be alot better off.

I have and he is "The Man" on that front. His health care speech though, while somewhat amusing, is pure BS.

And this from Jim's link,

Here he is in January on President Obama's stimulus plan: "It shelters the homeless, and it heals the sick. It helps us to look forward to a day when we beat our swords into plowshares, our spears into pruning hooks, and when a nation does not lift up a sword against nation anymore."

makes me want to puke.

[audrey_girl]

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watching this guy for a year now -

seems very smart - reminds me of huey -

very populist, very good orator, even dresses like him down to the ties .... here huey is describing difference between dems and republicans

[Master Shake]

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seems very smart - reminds me of huey -



You think Huey Long someone to admire?

[cjppjc]

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He has made the rounds on this site. I would add my approval to his words and actions. Fred has a different theory. He says Grayson is what the banksters want. Someone who can not be taken seriously. I think he can and will be taken seriously. Unless he cheats on his wife.:eek:

[ricket]

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He has made the rounds on this site. I would add my approval to his words and actions. Fred has a different theory. He says Grayson is what the banksters want. Someone who can not be taken seriously. I think he can and will be taken seriously. Unless he cheats on his wife.:eek:

I wonder why. If he gets enough people angry enough against the banksters' policies, why would they support him? Perhaps because he makes the counter-agenda look ridiculous?

[Jim Nickerson]

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I have and he is "The Man" on that front. His health care speech though, while somewhat amusing, is pure BS.

And this from Jim's link,

Here he is in January on President Obama's stimulus plan: "It shelters the homeless, and it heals the sick. It helps us to look forward to a day when we beat our swords into plowshares, our spears into pruning hooks, and when a nation does not lift up a sword against nation anymore."

makes me want to puke.

Well, MS, if you really need to purge yourself, you should perhaps find and take the time to read "the huge ass article on him [Grayson] in Vanity Fair from 2007." I have no idea how much in that 8 page article is true, but supposing more than 50% or so is true it shows just how screwed up, dishonest, costly can be the relationships between government and some apparently favored contractors to the Defense Dept. Whether such is a failure of government, or a triumph of capitalism, I guess any reader will have to decide.

My impression is that the current political system and its operation is irretrievably out of control, and I lack the imagination to even begin to see how it will end. Grayson by my standards, if he is truly what he appears to be, is what Congress needs, only multiplied by 540--which isn't going happen probably during this century.

[cjppjc]

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Grayson was on with Chris Matthews last night. Not about anything other than his speach on healthcare. Matthews really seemed to want to marry him. Maybe this will be the start of more appearances and a shift to other topics. The time seems about right.

I'm sure when LW is done changing diapers he can embed the piece.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL5Hjn6xMmU

[Ghent12]

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Grayson strikes me as a run-of-the-mill politician with populist tendencies. He enjoys the limelight of standing up for the little guy, and genuinely does from time to time. However, he's no saint, and is completely in favor of using the coercive force of government to "help" out his political interests. While he can take pop shots at the FED from time to time, which makes him somewhat popular with Ron Paul supporters, he is also in favor many different kinds of "regulations" on businesses, such as forcing a minimum vacation time, etc.