Posted on 09/30/2009 3:55:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON — House Republicans say it's payback time for the recent reprimand of one of their own for heckling President Barack Obama. They want a Democratic lawmaker to apologize or face a reprimand for saying the GOP wants Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick.
Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla. – a first-term congressman known for a provocative style – refused to back down on Wednesday.
As Republicans threatened to introduce a resolution disapproving of his remarks, he returned to the House floor and mocked their outrage by citing research showing that nearly 45,000 people die each year for lack of health insurance.
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An aide quickly whispered something into his ear, at which point he said, “Excuse me, I apparently was referencing OUR bill.” Then slithered away from the microphone.
/sarc
Politico reports that Grayson, D-Orlando, and a handful of Democrats plan to attend the premier tonight of Michael Moore’s new film, “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
Maybe if you're Chrissie Matthews being a pro-abortion Roman Catholic.
Did anyone hear this yahoo on CNN? He just called all Republican Congressmen, “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.”
What a POS!
Heh... we should call this KennedyKare!
No, Congressman. We’d be perfectly happy to settle for the Democrats in Congress doing that.
I believe this means he's probably soft on Pedophiles (among other things).
What a difference a day makes eh!?!?!
His wife has 5 kids ~ and I’d demand a paternity test if he claims they are his!
Grayson’s just trying to pull a name for himself out of the hat, but I’ve got news for him...
He doesn’t quite have the gift of truth behind him, like Sarah Palin did when she said death panels.
Sorry Grayson, your little trick looks like an embicile.
The republican’s need to throw this right back at the commucrats and make sure they reinforce the idea it’s the commucrats that want to see the I’ll Amercan people die as soon as possible.Then provide their words to prove that point.It should work every time.
How utterly beyond reprehensible. This is what passes for political debate in today’s Congress?
This guy should be relatively easy to take down next November if the Florida GOP had the stones to do it.
His parents were teachers. They made great sacrifices, to make sure that Alan received the best education.
Alan was a sick child. His mother took him to the hospital four times a week, for treatment. Without health coverage, he would not be alive today. He remembers that.
Alan rode the subway to school each day, and he worked hard. He was the valedictorian of his junior high school. By passing a test, he was admitted to an exclusive public high school. In high school, he achieved the highest test score among almost 50,000 students who took the test. Harvard College saw something in him, and admitted him.
For Alan, life at Harvard wasn’t easy. Alan cleaned toilets, and worked as a night watchman. Yet he earned a bachelor’s degree in only three years, with high honors, and he was Phi Beta Kappa. Alan graduated from Harvard in the top two percent of his class.
Alan took economics classes at Harvard, and he worked as an economist after college. But he felt a calling, to learn more. He returned to Harvard. In only four years, Alan received a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, and a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Government, and Alan finished all of the course work and passed the general exams for a Ph.D. in Government.
Alan’s master’s thesis was on the important subject of gerontology – how to improve the health of older people. Alan called for the creation of an organization to support research on the health of seniors. Shortly after he left school, Alan formed such an organization: the Alliance for Aging Research. Alan served as an officer of the Alliance for 22 years. Alan’s Alliance has increased federal support for aging research by 500%, leading to breakthroughs in the treatment of blindness, weak bones, Alzheimer’s disease, and other afflictions of the elderly. The motto of the Alliance is “Living to 100 – and Loving It.”
Wall Street firms recruited Alan heavily when he graduated from Harvard Law School, but Alan chose to be a judge’s assistant instead. For two years, he worked with such luminaries as Judge (now Justice) Ginsburg, Judge (now Justice) Scalia, Judge Mikva, Judge Bork, and others. After that, he accepted an invitation to join the law firm where Judge Ginsburg’s husband was a partner.
From the beginning of his legal career, Alan gravitated toward the important question of how the Government spends the taxpayers’ money. He mastered the incredibly complex rules regarding government contracting, and represented hundreds of clients in that field.
In the early 1990s, Alan took leave from the practice of law, and started a business. Alan was the first President of IDT Corp., a telecom/internet company. The business started on the second floor of a funeral home. It grew to be a $2 billion-a-year business, on the Fortune 1000 list, and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In short, Alan has lived the American Dream, starting a successful business and seeing it grow.
Later, Alan decided to leave that business, and return to the practice of law. Alan and his wife also decided to move to Orlando, and raise a family. Their first child, Skye, was born in 1995. Now they have five children: Skye, Star, Sage, Storm and Stone. Storm and Stone, twins, were born in 2005.
After Alan went back to the field of government contracts law, he began to represent whistleblowers, who witnessed fraud against the Government. Alan brought more and more False Claims Act cases on behalf of those whistleblowers, against fraudulent contractors. After the war in Iraq began, Alan was the only attorney who was willing to pursue such cases, in the face of hostility from the Bush Administration. Congress called on Alan four times to testify about contractor fraud in Iraq. Taxpayers Against Fraud named Alan Grayson its Lawyer of the Year. Public Justice also recognized Alan for his work. The Wall St. Journal lauded Alan, saying that he was “waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq.” And Vanity Fair published an 11-page profile.
Alan’s mammoth struggle against contractor fraud has been applauded by liberals and conservatives alike. And now that he is in Congress, he can do even more to protect the taxpayers. He has joined the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees of both the House Financial Services Committee and the House Science and Technology Committee.
I saw this turd of a human today for the first time on the TV.
I stand by my comment in calling him a turd.
"Die, Republican pigs!"
If Mr. Grayson will guarantee that no one with ZerOcare will ever die, he can make that point. However, I am prone to agree with Rush, it is the carrots. Mr Grayson is a moron.
Another NY transplant to this state. Blargh.
Grayson, you are a putz!
Hey Alan...”you lie!”
It didn’t say what that test was that he scored so high on. I call BS on that story, or that it was any kind of legitimate test. I just heard the man speak. Not too bright, in my opinion.
In the case of Senator Byrd. . .
Levin just ripped Grayson a new one.
As opposed to Democrats who want people to die before they are even born.
Grayson feeels emboldened letting it rip like this and is enjoying the notoriety..
Joe Wilson needs to make a few stops in his district for his opponent.
Who wrote this schmuck’s bio - a 7th grader?
Pot/Kettle/Black
Pray for America
He just called all Republican Congressmen, “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.”
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Democrats can call anybody anything they want. They can cheat on their taxes, cheat on their wife’s, outright lie, take kick backs from banks, and be directly responcible for someone else’s death and nothing happens. And you want to know why.
BECAUSE THEY ARE DEMOCRATS!!!!
The Grayson style of speaking takes me back to my younger days in the schoolyard at elementary school.
On May 22, 1856, [South Carolina Congressman] Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with his Gutta-percha wood walking cane in the Senate chamber because of a speech Sumner had made three days earlier, criticizing President Franklin Pierce and Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas. In particular, Sumner lambasted Brooks' kinsman, Senator Andrew Butler, who was not in attendance when the speech was read, describing slavery as a harlot, comparing Butler with Don Quixote for embracing it, and mocking Butler for a physical handicap. Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, who was also a subject of abuse during the speech, suggested to a colleague while Sumner was orating that "this damn fool [Sumner] is going to get himself shot by some other damn fool."
...First intending to challenge Sumner to a duel, Brooks consulted with fellow South Carolina Rep. Laurence M. Keitt on dueling etiquette. Keitt instructed him that dueling was for gentlemen of equal social standing, and suggested that Sumner occupied a lower social status comparable to a drunkard due to the supposedly coarse language he had used during his speech. Brooks thus decided to attack Sumner with a cane.
Two days after the speech, on the afternoon of May 22, Brooks confronted Sumner as he sat writing at his desk in the almost empty Senate chamber... Brooks said, "Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully. It is a libel on South Carolina, and Mr. Butler, who is a relative of mine." As Sumner began to stand up, Brooks began beating Sumner on the head with his thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head. Sumner was trapped under the heavy desk (which was bolted to the floor), but Brooks continued to bash Sumner until he ripped the desk from the floor. By this time, Sumner was blinded by his own blood, and he staggered up the aisle and collapsed, lapsing into unconsciousness. Brooks continued to beat Sumner until he broke his cane, then quietly left the chamber. Several other senators attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Keitt who was holding a pistol and shouting "Let them be!"
Some things are just a bit more genteel today than they were last time.
Here a picture of the "Good Rep", without all of his make-up.
As a final posting, here is the "Good Rep", as a little boy, where he developed his taste in his brain matter or a close proximity there of.
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