VIDEO: Neil Cavuto Gets Heated with Alan Grayson (FL.Dem)

RealClearMedia ^ | April 01, 2009

[anglian]

This is A MUST SEE VIDEO. Congressman Alan Grayson (Democrat of Florida) makes a fool out of him self and his party on live TV.

[taildragger]

“You are Sweden in a suit” LOL! Get-um Neal !!!!

[smartymarty]

They are just so out of touch but what do you do. How do you get rid of them how. I feel so helpless . They are all morally bankrupt.

#1 - Unite... join or start a 9 - 12 project in your area

#2 - join a tax day tea party near you - let your voices be heard people.

[LachlanMinnesota]

They impose an Orwellian newspeak kind of rule to take away private contract rights and the congressman says that Neil is rude for saying “damn!” Just Damn!

[Petronski]

You must see this.

[EBH]

The socialists are in high-gear right now to get as much under gov control before the beast starts to push back.

And that rush will be their undoing. I don't see us making it to the next election cycle in 2010 without major confrontation in DC.

I don't know who or what group(s) it will be, but I think we'll see violence before then. What has me confounded are shots of London today vs. our ongoing tax protest rallies.

Is the divide in our country really that big too? These are dangerous times we live in. Reporters, news hosts, and Beck going nuts on these folks and it is like no one but this little group is getting it.

[Lion Den Dan]

Arrogance and stupidity must be required characteristics for elected officials!!!!

They represent their constituancy who must also be arrogant and stupid.

[SERKIT]

Reasonable compensation or excessive bonuses?

Gorelick earned an estimated $26,000,000 serving as vice chair of Fannie Mae from 1998 to 2003.

The Clinton administration's White House Budget Director Franklin Raines ran Fannie and collected $50,000,000.

Big Democrat Jim Johnson, recently on Obama's VP search committee, has hauled in millions from his Fannie Mae CEO job. Johnson earned $21,000,000 in just his last year at Fannie Mae.

Can we limit the Congressman Grayson's pay for being incompetent and acting outside the realm of the Consitution?

[lynn4303]

It's coming. The days of reckoning are coming. It's just starting to grow. We are finally starting to push back. That congressman is an idiot. They cannot be allowed carte blanche on setting salaries. Eventually it will morph into setting all salaries. This is in prep for health care control. They will eventually lower all health care worker salaries

[steelyourfaith]

When Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) actually had the audacity to suggest that this unconstitutional "Pay for Performance Act of 2009" (of which he is the chief sponsor) --- a Big Government power grab (wherein flunky bureaocrats would impose pay restrictions of all private sector employees, not just top execs at companies that receive any aid from the government) was justified because people were "ripping off the American taxpayer, by stealing money from us and stuffing it into their pockets," I lost it.

HELLO !!!! This fool Grayson should be hoisted on his own petard along with the rest of the contemptible congressmen, Chris Dodd, Obama, et al, who stuffed their pockets with Fannie/Freddie, etc., kickbacks of various forms as they destroyed the private sector financial markets with onerous legislation over the years --- and then ripped the taxpayers for generations to come off a new one with the asinine Porkulus Bill. So help me, these clowns in D.C. deserve to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

Bravo to Neil Cavuto. I'm jazzed that it that in recent days guys like Neil and Glenn Beck are taking off the gloves when interviewing the Big Government scum.

[lynn4303]

If this is passed, what’s to stop the next Sec of T from setting salaries of businesses in ways that can effect his own personal investments. Since Obama’s people will be choosing board members to run GM, how quick will you see stockholders bailing. Despite being run by the government, it still is a publicly traded company. All this stinks. We went to war against the King of England for far less.

[cp124]

[USMA '71]

A brief review of Grayson’s resume shows that he has worked for the government in some form or fashion since he graduated from Harvard. I find this background to be similar to many - if not most - currently in Congress. Few of them have any idea what it means or what it takes to work outside of government.

[dennisw]

Awesome by Cavuto. Washington DC has gone to this jerks head.

[Ole Okie]

You know, those numbers you quote are mind-boggling.

I wish Cavuto had thrown them at Grayson.

Let’s see: Jamie Gorelick, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson.

Excessive compensation? On the face of it, of course. What will Congers do about it? The Secretary of the Treasury will decide?

[justa-hairyape]

I cannot believe I just watched a federal employee claim that he wants to stop people from stealing taxpayer dollars. HELLO. Is there anybody in there ? The Feds were the ones who stole the money from us Tax Payers in the first place. They poured our money into the rat hole.

[Lancey Howard]

[anglian]

Grayson-Himes Pay For Performance Act of 2009 http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1664/text

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Sorry. That wasn’t my intent. It seemed to me, that, as the interview progressed, and he became more frustrated, his facade started to crumble, and by the end of the interview, his speech patterns, and pronunciation, started to change, and he sounded “gay.” That was my first impression. Perhaps I’ll listen to the clip again. Maybe my second impression will be different.

[Leisler]

Went to Harvard, what do you expect.

[Leisler]

What to keep Treasury from using the Commerce Act on any company and say somewhere, someplace, somehow you got federal funds now pay as we say. Republicans zilch. Democrats millions.