Alan Grayson’s 15 Minutes of Shame
I pretty much know everyone’s name in congress but I didn’t recognize Alan Grayson’s name until recently. Now it’s time America got to know this jerk better. I say jerk because that’s what he was in this hateful diatribe:
The disgusting nature of Grayson’s speech speaks for itself. It’s obvious that Rep. Grayson is a hatemonger and a backbench bombthrower. After this, it’s also possible that he’ll be a one-term wonder.
This speech would’ve fit right in with Howard Dean’s speech where he said that “We’re in a fight between good and evil and we’re the good.” Democrats like Dean and Grayson aren’t good. Hate-filled people aren’t good.
Republicans who heard of the diatribe are demanding that Rep. Grayson apologize:
Veteran Tennessee Republican Jimmy Duncan abandoned customary reticence to chastise Grayson. “That is about the most mean-spirited partisan statement that I’ve ever heard made on this floor, and I, for one, don’t appreciate it,” Duncan said. “It’s fully appropriate that the gentleman return to the floor and apologize,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, another Tennessee Republican.
Thus far, an apology hasn’t been offered. After this blows up in the media, I suspect Speaker Pelosi will ask Rep. Grayson to fall on his sword. The last thing Democrats need is a hotheaded backbencher shooting his mouth off when they’re attempting to cast Republicans as an angry mob.
Besides, it’s going to be difficult for Speaker Pelosi this week after the Senate Finance Committee defeated Jay Rockefeller’s amendment to include a public option in his bill:
The 15-to-8 vote could forecast the fate of the public option in the Senate as a whole. The outcome was expected but still a defeat for liberals who view government-sponsored insurance for the middle class as a key component of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
Five committee Democrats, including Chairman Max Baucus, joined with all 10 committee Republicans to defeat the measure by Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
The public option is just one of the hurdles standing in the way of the Democrats’ health care legislation. Another obstacle that will be difficult to overcome is how to pay for it. The biggest obstacle facing Democrats, though, appears to be Sen. Baucus’s attempt to hide the legislation’s costs by shoving millions more Medicaid patients onto the states’ dime:
Democrats want to use Medicaid to cover everyone up to at least 133% of the federal poverty level, or about $30,000 for a family of four. Starting in 2014, Mr. Baucus plans to spend $287 billion through 2019, or about one-third of ObamaCare’s total spending, to add some 11 million new people to the Medicaid rolls.
About 59 million people are on Medicaid today, which means that a decade from now about a quarter of the total population would be on a program originally sold as help for low-income women, children and the disabled. State budgets would explode, by $37 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office, because they would no longer be allowed to set eligibility in line with their own decisions about taxes and spending.
That provision is sparking a states’ rights fight:
In more than a dozen statehouses across the country, a small but growing group of lawmakers is pressing for state constitutional amendments that would outlaw a crucial element of the health care plans under discussion in Washington: the requirement that everyone buy insurance or pay a penalty.
Approval of the measures, supporters suggest, would open a legal battle over states’ rights versus federal power, an issue that is, for some, central to the current health care debate, but also one that affects a broad range of other matters, including education and drug policy.
In the public’s mind, it’s almost irrelevant whether that provision is constitutional or not. The mandates are another reminder of the Democrats’ overreach. It’s a symbol of them saying that they’ll dictate what policy will be, that We The People won’t be having input into what policies will be enacted.
Rep. Grayson’s behavior is reprehensible but no more so than Democrats ignoring the will of the people in cramming this reprehensible legislation down our throats. At minimum, Rep. Grayson owes Republicans an apology. At worst, he needs a new occupation.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 30th, 2009 at 10:31 am
When one has nothing to say, often one turns to angry, empty, meaningless and hurtful rhetoric to make up for the lack of anything useful.
And the MSM/DNC thought the town hall protesters were angry? Or even dangerous?
‘Nuff said.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:35 am
When the Dems feel stressed you can always count on them to accuse the right of trying to kill “THE CHILDREN” or “THE ELDERLY” or the UNDERPRIVELEGED”. It is their standard retort when they can think of nothing else to say. And they have the gall to call the right uncivil and angry.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Well, now that we’re accusing the left of wanting to kill the babies and elderly, their only retorts are “You lie!” (a la Joe Wilson) and “Racist!”
It never even crosses their (putrid, tiny) minds that we may have true, real and grave (pardon the pun) concerns about the bills they are trying their darndest to jam down our throats without so much as a minute of discussion.
Heck, I don’t blame the congresscritters for not reading the bills - they make me sick, too.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
SCHIAVO vs GRAYSON
September 30, 2009
A Democratic congressman from Florida, Alan Grayson is refusing to apologize for saying that Republicans want Americans to “DIE QUICKLY” if they get sick. Grayson made his comments with a 4 x 4 visual aid poster on the House floor Tuesday night criticizing Republican health care proposals.
March. 23, 2005
Over the weekend, Republicans in Congress pushed through unprecedented emergency legislation aimed at saving Terri Schiavo’s life by allowing the case to be reviewed by federal courts.
Grayson,
if you get your health care bill passed—have your head checked