Alan Grayson on GOP on the Olympics: 'Someone should remind them what team they're really on'

[Wetzelbill]

Run time: 04:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPAtYGlgiqI   Posted on YouTube: October 02, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 02, 2009 By DU Member: Wetzelbill Views on DU: 3366

 
LOL, this guy doesn't mess around at all. It's a shock to see a Dem act like this.

[OHdem10]

1. It is refreshing to see a real Democrat with a spine in Congress.

[quantass]

6. Ding..ding..ding!!! nt

[TheEuclideanOne]

25. I couldn't agree more. He should "apologize" again and remind them of all the Hitler Comparisons

Sure, it is okay to continously compare Obama to the man who lead the Holocaust, but if you compare what they are doing to what Hitler did, then all of a sudden you hear all of this manufactured outrage. I demand that he apologize again for using the word Holocaust. :) I would love to hear his second apology.

Moving forward, I sure hope that this becomes contagious and the other Democrats start following suit. Right now, I feel like I am in the movie "The Bodyguard" and Grayson is our Linderman.

My other reaction is.... "Holy, Fucking Shit!!!!..... Is that what it looks like when a person in the Democratic party actually has a spine?." We need more Spinage. I feel like protesting with pictures of Grayson on my signs, or pictures or Spines.

[AsahinaKimi]

2. Its about time...

For eight long years the Democrats cowered under Geroge W. Bush..they are in need of s spine. Time to tell it like it is.. Maybe Grayson should meet up with Bill Maher for a few good lines.

[murray hill farm]

3. I love this guy!

Just love hime!

[liberalmuse]

4. I'm in love.

I know he's probably married, but I lived in Utah for many years.

[Lucy Goosey]

5. Grayson for President!

Seriously, this guy is the real deal. I hope some of his more spineless colleagues follow his example.

[davidhilton]

7. grayson/kucinich 2012!

[daleanime]

16. Franken?

:hi:

[bobbolink]

8. HOLOCAUST

Last night I was talking with a friend who, besides being one who doesn't keep up with all things political, is an observant, Orthodox Jew. When I said something about 45,000 people in this country dying every year from lack of health care, his eyes widened, he looked stunned, and said, "That is a HOLOCAUST." Yes, those were his words.

How DARE those RW creeps USE Jews to attack one congresscritter who wants to stop this tragedy!

[goclark]

14. Grayson is the MAN! Keep it come , keep it coming!

He should be on every talk show, he is the REAL spokesperson for this issue.

ABC, 123 words and sock it to um charts!

:bounce:

[SharksBreath]

9. THEY'VE GOT NOTHING.

I love it.

[jennied]

10. It's not okay to use the word holocaust but it's okay to call the President a nazi?

If Holocaust is wrong, then they need to be all over Fox news for its choice of words too.

[indimuse]

11. KNR!

This is how it's done! Love him.

[myrna minx]

12. *swoon* K&R n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

13. I would like to see him on O'Liely. n/t

[Thrill]

15. Grayson get your ass in that Senate race against Crist!!

We need this guy in the Senate

[DeSwiss]

17. With 44,789 people dying every year for lack of health coverage.....

...368 have died since Rep. Grayson ask the Republicans for their healthcare plan 72 hours ago.

- So what this comes down to is the Repukes are willing to allow 122 people die each day to keep their pockets lined with filthy lucre from insurance company fatcats.

K&R

[rollingrock]

18. The truth will set you free.

Neanderthal is a perfect description.

They are a bunch of cavemen from the stone age.

[PatrynXX]

19. gotta love Republicans celebrating news that we lost out on a ton of jobs.

Being a good sport, Rio looks great, but the glee from the Republicans.... do they know how many people are unemployed???

That said IOC picked China last year and let the Chinese beat people up. We decried that and we lost. Hopefully they'll wake up sometime

[Cha]

20. Grayson is amazing! It's "lives that important"..not the

fooking words, ya neanderthals:silly:

I love how he sticks up for our Prez.

[Douglas Carpenter]

21. kick and recommend

[TlalocW]

22. I think also that it's possible that Grayson also has the media cowed

Just from what I've seen after he went on the Situation Room and took it to them, they seem to be handling him with kid gloves.

TlalocW

[BluDemocratGirl]

23. The RePUKEblicans are very fear of Grayson.

[Triana]

24. I want that man in the Oval Office. n/t

[Thornleylv]

26. Love at first bite?

Sound bite!



:kick:

[vaberella]

27. Why is everyone surprised now?!

A few of us have been talking about him since his position on Madoff and the banks fucking us over.

[OneTwentyoNine]

28. Yep....the Republicans led by party Chairman Limbaugh yesterday..

Was one of the most sicking things I've ever seen as they cheered and whooped it up when it was announced that Chicago and more importantly the USA would not be getting the Olympics.

This goes beyond just simple hatred of a lost election,this is way,way into a type of sickness.

[MadMaddie]

33. Limbaugh was ecstatic because the United States lost.

This should be the message that is slammed home. The video needs to be used to destroy him. Somewhere along the way his hate for Obama has morphed to hate for America and it needs to be pointed out.

[DFW]

29. I hope he doesn't fly in any small planes in the near future

I think that even more than speaking his mind on the House floor, his successful appearances on Talking Head TV
are really what is freaking the Republicans out right now.

Think about it. When he says "they have nothing," it pierces like a cyanide-coated arrow into their mid-section.

Nothing is EXACTLY what they've got.

Not only do they have nothing policy-wise, but they have nothing to counter him that isn't a used car already.
Sourpuss Bonehead, Gingrich, Coulter, Beck, O'Reilly, Malkin, or Limbaugh from the fruitcake squad, or else CNN
types like Castellanos (declared Republican hack), or Crowley (blatantly biased but not officially on the Republican
payroll). Grayson is a fresh face, and speaks his own mind, and not what Rupert Murdoch (or anyone else) has scripted
for him. He has his own money and wasn't planning his re-election campaign five minutes after he was sworn in.

I'd love to see him in a TV duet with Howard Dean on an hour-long Rachel Maddow show.

[husky92]

30. He's the Man...

I'll add my two cents as well. This guy is not afraid to tell it like it is. He's absolutely correct on many counts. The Republicans are willing to kill any healthcare reform for political purposes. They can throw all the rhetoric out they want and spin it any way they want, but there is not one who is willing to work on a bill to get Americans a good healthcare plan. And they care about America??? What a pile of bullshit. They want Democrats to fail, especially Obama. They know if they resist every change and use their puppets like Beck and Limbaugh to spread lies Americans will blame all this nonsense on Obama and the Democrats. Look how they vilified Pelosi as the cause of all evil in recent months. They are stealing money from Americans by taking all the benefits that come with being an elected official with little in return in the way of helping us.

Regarding those knuckleheads cheering for Chicago's failure to get the Olympic bid no surprise there. It makes my blood boil that these scumbags call themselves American. I'd love to get the Becks and Limbaughs and some of those others in front of a camera on a network and ask them point blank why they were so ecstatic about us not getting the bid.

What was the McCain/Palin slogan....America First? Yeah, right!

[90-percent]

31. Boehner

Boehner used the disrespectful term "Democrat Party", instead of the correct "Democratic Party". Why the fuck should these people demand respect, in the form of an apology, from a Democrat when they show no respect by knowingly using that term in a derogatory manner?

I hope they continue to use it and they continue to show the American people just how insignificant they really are.

-90% Jimmy

[Wetzelbill]

32. I made a similar comment on the youtube thread

Democrat Party? And they want an apology, really? If you use a blatantly childish and denigrating term like that the last thing you deserve is an apology, maybe a punch in the face, but not an apology. That would be like if Pelosi came out and said: "I don't know, I think the RepubliKlan Party, should apologize to us for....."

No way should they be allowed to get away with using such a disrespectful term. I can maybe see why people who are activists or who are on a message board would do that, but a Congressional leader should at least pretend to be civil about something like that.