Alan Grayson just called a reporter a "shitting robot"

[MADem]

186. No, it's not his stated views that are problematic. You know this. You keep ignoring the obvious.

It's the unhinged melt-downs, the disordered personal life, the scatalogical references, the pointless anger when asked an entirely REASONABLE question, that is worrying. And falling back to the "Waaah, it was LEGAL" defense entirely misses the point (though it's a great way to try to misdirect/change the subject). You don't -- if you are an honest person -- play a "Do as I say, not as I do" game, and that is EXACTLY what Grayson did.

A "good progressive Dem" doesn't excoriate Republicans for shoving money offshore--and Grayson did this, in 2011-- while doing the EXACT same thing himself. And all the "Third Way" insinuations in the world aren't going to change that. The question the reporter asked was appropriate and entirely reasonable. The answer was not. Instead of dialing it down, it sounded like it came from someone who was acting like a crazy man. "Shitting robot?" Come on.

This is a guy who wants to run for the Senate. It's no wonder the DSCC isn't enthused.

He's deconstructing. Maybe he should have tried to patch it up with the mother of his five children, his annulled wife of 25 years--he seemed to do better and behave in a more focused fashion when he was with her. Since they split, his behavior has become more and more histrionic.