Representative Alan Grayson (FL-8)

March 28, 2010 at 2:51 am | Posted in elections, politics straight up | Leave a comment
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(Mother Jones) … Grayson doesn’t do chastened—even when it might be politically advantageous for a first-term congressman in a district that twice went for George W. Bush. “I recognize that I’m in a very competitive district,” Grayson says. “But I really want to take advantage of the opportunities that are out there to say what’s on people’s minds, whether this experience goes on for me or not.”

On March 9, 2010 Grayson introduced, along with 80 co-sponsors, the Public Option Act or the Medicare You Can Buy Into Act, which would amend the Medicare section of the Social Security Act to authorize an option for any citizen or permanent resident of the United States to buy into Medicare.

Alan Grayson was first elected to Congress for Florida’s 8th District in November 2008. It would be a shame for all Americans, not just Floridians in the 8th District, to lose Grayson. This is an example of why we need him:

He’s currently looking for campaign contributions for his re-election bid.

Something I did not know — On January 13, 2010 Grayson sponsored a bill “to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a 500 percent excise tax on corporate contributions to political committees and on corporate expenditures on political advocacy campaigns.”

A shame it ain’t going anywhere.

Kill The Pigs!

March 28, 2010 at 1:58 am | Posted in health, terrorism | 1 Comment
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Apparently Ted Nugent is under the mis-impression that the Affordable Care Act creates universal, single-payer health care.

And yeah, I can’t imagine how anyone would be upset by a discussion of killing pigs with a bullet through the head and declaring that the president, members of the House and Senate and his fellow Americans are pigs and should be taken out and shot. Oh, yeah, no, that was definitely satire.

Personally, I think Nugent’s speech and that of his fellow travelers (I’m looking at you, Sarah Palin — wink, wink) is terrorism:

Terrorism (noun)

  1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
  2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
  3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

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Back in June 2009 Canada was considering a law allowing victims of terrorism to sue perpetrators of the attacks and their supporters. I can’t imagine there would be a prohibition against suing terrorists here in the United States. I hope Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin, John McCain and a large number of leading Republicans are putting money aside to pay judgments against them when the time comes.

Thanks to Crooks & Liars for the video.

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