Posted on 02/25/2010 7:51:43 AM PST by AAABEST
Edited on 02/25/2010 7:53:33 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, was evacuated last week from the Central African nation of Niger, where he was stranded during a coup, by a military contractor the outspoken congressman has railed against in the past.
Grayson was on a House Committee on Science and Technology tour last Thursday when a military coup closed the airport in Niger and then took over the government, violently entering buildings close to the U.S. Embassy compound where he was staying.
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You grumpy thing you! I like Grayson because he is one of those guys who don’t sneak around in the back alley and you have to wonder where he’s coming from. He just comes right out and gets in people’s face. I like that.
He tore Ben Bernanke up in one of those hearings and that lack of couth is something refreshing. Liberal or conservative.
parsy, who says at least the goober is honest
You grumpy thing you! I like Grayson because he is one of those guys who don’t sneak around in the back alley and you have to wonder where he’s coming from. He just comes right out and gets in people’s face. I like that.
He tore Ben Bernanke up in one of those hearings and that lack of couth is something refreshing. Liberal or conservative.
parsy, who says at least the goober is honest
"I know this is an emergency, and we are probably the only company able to do this, but you really need to go out and get competive bids first before we leave..."
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Even among the amoral dregs that make up the US Congress, this pr!ck is a particularly malodorous bag of arrogant pus.
Well said!
Don’t have the pic but:
“When you get to hell tell ‘em that Itchy sent you!”
This guy looks like a good candidate to get sent home in November.
They could have oops’d him out the door...../sarc/Ever seen The Gods Must Be Crazy? They should do that[*] to him, and then leave him there...
Lefties are nearly always repulsive to one degree or another, but yes you are correct - this guy stands out and is particularly "special" in being able to exceed all levels detestability.
He's one of the select few in that Keith Olbermann category; the type you want to beat the s*** out of, then go back and beat the s*** out of again.
“nation of Niger”
I don’t know what mineral resources they have, but that country could be mined for jokes.
Uranium -- lots of it too. Remember Joe Wilson?
I know you're kidding, but Niger is actually flush with all kinds of natural resources, which makes their economic malaise all the more tragic. Like so many African countries, their government is so corrupt and inefficient, it makes it virtually impossible for their people to utilize their own resources to enrich themselves, and build a sustainable economy.
This coup is just another example of their incompetence.
“Should have left him there....”
Amen, Bro.
He wants to be thankful I wasn’t in charge of that Blackwater crew. He’d have never made it out of there alive.
I’d have left his sorry stinkin’ a$$ there to be chopped up and dragged thru the village.
They should have thrown his ass out and said he fell.
Yellowcake Uranium?
Boy this would make for a hilarious segment on The Daily Show, since they take potshots at both parties, ya know.
LOL
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