Posted on 09/30/2009 3:55:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON House Republicans say it's payback time for the recent reprimand of one of their own for heckling President Barack Obama. They want a Democratic lawmaker to apologize or face a reprimand for saying the GOP wants Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick.
Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla. a first-term congressman known for a provocative style refused to back down on Wednesday.
As Republicans threatened to introduce a resolution disapproving of his remarks, he returned to the House floor and mocked their outrage by citing research showing that nearly 45,000 people die each year for lack of health insurance.
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Another NY transplant to this state. Blargh.
Grayson, you are a putz!
Hey Alan...”you lie!”
It didn’t say what that test was that he scored so high on. I call BS on that story, or that it was any kind of legitimate test. I just heard the man speak. Not too bright, in my opinion.
In the case of Senator Byrd. . .
Levin just ripped Grayson a new one.
As opposed to Democrats who want people to die before they are even born.
Grayson feeels emboldened letting it rip like this and is enjoying the notoriety..
Joe Wilson needs to make a few stops in his district for his opponent.
Who wrote this schmuck’s bio - a 7th grader?
Pot/Kettle/Black
Pray for America
He just called all Republican Congressmen, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.
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Democrats can call anybody anything they want. They can cheat on their taxes, cheat on their wife’s, outright lie, take kick backs from banks, and be directly responcible for someone else’s death and nothing happens. And you want to know why.
BECAUSE THEY ARE DEMOCRATS!!!!
The Grayson style of speaking takes me back to my younger days in the schoolyard at elementary school.
On May 22, 1856, [South Carolina Congressman] Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with his Gutta-percha wood walking cane in the Senate chamber because of a speech Sumner had made three days earlier, criticizing President Franklin Pierce and Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas. In particular, Sumner lambasted Brooks' kinsman, Senator Andrew Butler, who was not in attendance when the speech was read, describing slavery as a harlot, comparing Butler with Don Quixote for embracing it, and mocking Butler for a physical handicap. Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, who was also a subject of abuse during the speech, suggested to a colleague while Sumner was orating that "this damn fool [Sumner] is going to get himself shot by some other damn fool."
...First intending to challenge Sumner to a duel, Brooks consulted with fellow South Carolina Rep. Laurence M. Keitt on dueling etiquette. Keitt instructed him that dueling was for gentlemen of equal social standing, and suggested that Sumner occupied a lower social status comparable to a drunkard due to the supposedly coarse language he had used during his speech. Brooks thus decided to attack Sumner with a cane.
Two days after the speech, on the afternoon of May 22, Brooks confronted Sumner as he sat writing at his desk in the almost empty Senate chamber... Brooks said, "Mr. Sumner, I have read your speech twice over carefully. It is a libel on South Carolina, and Mr. Butler, who is a relative of mine." As Sumner began to stand up, Brooks began beating Sumner on the head with his thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head. Sumner was trapped under the heavy desk (which was bolted to the floor), but Brooks continued to bash Sumner until he ripped the desk from the floor. By this time, Sumner was blinded by his own blood, and he staggered up the aisle and collapsed, lapsing into unconsciousness. Brooks continued to beat Sumner until he broke his cane, then quietly left the chamber. Several other senators attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Keitt who was holding a pistol and shouting "Let them be!"
Some things are just a bit more genteel today than they were last time.
Here a picture of the "Good Rep", without all of his make-up.
As a final posting, here is the "Good Rep", as a little boy, where he developed his taste in his brain matter or a close proximity there of.
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