If You Want To Go To War, He'll Take You To War!!!

I gotta say I absolutely LOVE this attack ad. If more Democrats put Republicans on the defense the way they do us, we wouldn't be talking about an enthusiasm gap!!!

Alan Grayson Tells Dick Cheney To Shut The Fuck Up

He couldn't say it on national Tee Vee so I just translated the acronym for him.



We need more of this, truly...

Enough Is Enough

House Republicans still haven't learned not to play around with Alan Grayson. Rep. Paul Broun's best move would have been to just refuse to respond. But instead he opened his mouth and removed all doubt as they say.



What a thing of beauty!

They Don't Wanna See Him

Alan Grayson is the kind of Democrat that we should all hope for to represent us in Congress. There is no way in hell we can let these upstarts come close to touching him next year!

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How They Will Come After Alan Grayson

Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks makes an interesting observation about how it appears the right wing will try to discredit Congressman Alan Grayson, because he has a lot of money. As Cenk points out, it will have absolutely nothing to do with all of the things he is fighting for but they will bank on the mainstream media not noticing. Take a look.

Thank You!

I wanted to take a moment and thank all of those who participated in the Alan Grayson poll the other night. The results as of this morning have over 70% of voters saying he should not apologize with just under 60% saying he was telling the truth. This shows we CAN win the internet when we want to!

What do you think?

Does Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson owe the U.S. House an apology for saying that Republicans want sick Americans to die quickly?

Yes. His comments were outrageous and over the top. (2977 responses)
24.9%

No. He deserves credit for having the courage to tell the truth. (7165 responses)
59.9%

Yes. If Grayson really wants health-care reform, this isn't the way to get it. (494 responses)
4.1%

No. Republicans have already shown they aren't interested in doing anything but blocking health care reform. (1331 responses)
11.1%

11967 total responses
(Results not scientific)

Grayson Strikes Again

I wish Congressman Alan Grayson had been on TV for the whole month of August busting Republicans in the mouth over their fear mongering. Well as they say, better late than never!

URGENT! Please Show Your Support For Alan Grayson.

If you support Congressman Alan Grayson and the rhetorical spanking he has given the GOP over the last few days on health care reform, please take a second and go over and vote in this poll.

Thanks in advance!

More, More , More

You know I meant to link to this Matt Taibbi post over the weekend where he characterized Congressman Alan Grayson as "going werewolf" on him but I never got around to it. Well it seems damned appropriate now as Grayson keeps raising the bar on punching Republicans in the mouth. Tonight he went on The Rachel Maddow Show and continued the onslaught.



It was also great that Rachel reminded everyone of the kind of wild and disrespectful shit that Republicans have said on the floor of the House during this health care reform fight. Congressman Grayson is absolutely right that what we need right now are Democrats with guts. I would hope that more Democrats now start showing the kind of spine that he is showing and take the damn gloves off when dealing with the GOP going forward.

Alan Grayson FTMFW!!! (Again)

I don't even need to commment, the eye in the sky don't lie.

Enjoy!

Eff Your Apology!

George Stephanopolous had the nerve to post this video (which I fully endorse) of Congressman Alan Grayson hitting the Republicans on the floor of the House over their lack of a real health care reform plan, and then asking if the GOP deserves an apology.




Mind you, I don't remember George asking Sarah Palin or Chuck Grassley for an apology when they pulled that death panel crap out of their ass. Nor Virginia Foxx or Michele Bachmann for the numerous baseless attacks they have launched from the floor of the House. But let me quote from the Republican Bible.

"Isn't he just expressing his right to free speech? Why is the GOP trying to muzzle him? Our founding fathers gave us the freedom to speak our mind and Congressman Grayson should be allowed to do so. Why it is unamerican to suggest otherwise and it is the GOP who should apologize for demanding an apology!!!"

See also, Joe Wilson.

Its stuff like this that shows why George Stephanopolous is a loser. Just a few weeks back he had all but overtaken Meet the Press in Tee Vee ratings. In response to this he books Michele Malkin, Liz Cheney, and John McCain in the weeks since. Needless to say David Gregory is no longer concerned. But hey George you just keep on try to play the role of "centrist" and keep on being 2nd place your whole life.

Now THAT'S Karma

The right wingers have been going after ACORN with impugnity since last year. With recent revelations about bad actors getting caught up in gotcha journalists Republicans in Congress felt like they finally had ACORN right where they wanted them. And so, as is the norm these days, they jumped first and asked questions later in order to try to either

A)Put Democrats on the spot on whether they would vote against ACORN which has been a big time Democratic supporter or

B)Defund ACORN which they feel will give them an advantage nationally in voter registration efforts.

But unfortunately for them they ended up casting too wide of a net.

The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to "any organization" that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.

In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) picked up on the legislative overreach and asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to sift through its database to find which contractors might be caught in the ACORN net.

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Gumman both popped up quickly, with 20 fraud cases between them, and the longer list is a Who's Who of weapons manufacturers and defense contractors.
The language was written by the GOP and filed as a "motion to recommit" in the House, where it passed 345-75.

POGO is reaching out to its members to identify other companies who have engaged in the type of misconduct that would make them ineligible for federal funds.

Now all year political junkies have noticed that Republicans have tried to position themselves as strong on national security again. Putting aside for the moment the fact that they took us into the war in Iraq under false pretenses, they seemed to really feel that by advocating torture and abuses of our Constitution that people would just flock to them in droves in the midterms next year. Hell there has even been talk about trying to get Dick Cheney to run for President in 2012. Well even if they had an ice cube's chance in hell of such a turnaround I don't think defunding almost the entire Military Industrial Complex is going to be helping that cause.

Now as a progressive I believe there is definitely a need and a place for our military. But there is no doubt that defense contractors have gamed the system to maximize their profitablilty. A lot of that gaming having to do with pretty much bribing Republicans and some corporatist Democrats to protect their interests. Our system of military procurement is severely broken and nobody has been willing to truly take it on. Maybe, just maybe, the Republicans have now done us a favor that no Democrat would have ever had the stones to pull off. And all because they were trying to score cheap political points against an organization that does a lot of great work in some of he worst neighborhoods in our country. And if we can get our military procurement problems under control that will have a tremendously positive effect on our long term deficits and debt.

Talk about a hidden benefit.

How Democrats Apologize To Rush Limbaugh

The GOP should take notes from Congressman Alan Grayson:

“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.”