This is just a terrible speech, except for the two minutes in the middle.

as much as i admired Rudy when he was our major during that time, how much i dislike him now for becoming a republican walking point puppet.
such a waste

Upvote for what I think is a Monkey Island reference in the title

Pretty much, although one should never underestimate the masochism of the American people.

Republicans are bad at government? Pot meet the kettle!
A more accurate statement would be Politicians are bad at government!
Seems like he just wasted 2 minutes of his life to make a statement in front of the 3 representatives that showed up to see him and the few people that saw it on CSPAN and put it here for us to see.
Drivel. Pure pointless drivel.
He should be spending more time worrying about how to run our country and less time worrying about politicking.

I do enjoy myself some Alan Grayson, but I wish politicians would be less about "the party" politics and more about being individual politicians.

Spot on.

Oh, my, he wasted two whole minutes giving the cons the shit they deserve.

Yeah, he's a real loser.

Or do you spell it "looser?"

Another vid from the Doofus? Yawn. The Republicans deserve plenty of crap, but not for what this guy harps on. What the Republicans deserve crap for, the Democrats deserve 100X crap for. And "Republicans hate government"... Not the Bushes to be certain. Government spending went up under Bush2 by quite a lot. That's what they deserve crap for though.

A more fair tirade would be, "Politicians hate freedom and the American people - including Mr. Doofus."

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
Another vid from the Doofus? Yawn. The Republicans deserve plenty of crap, but not for what this guy harps on. What the Republicans deserve crap for, the Democrats deserve 100X crap for. And "Republicans hate government"... Not the Bushes to be certain. Government spending went up under Bush2 by quite a lot. That's what they deserve crap for though.
A more fair tirade would be, "Politicians hate freedom and the American people - including Mr. Doofus."


Except...that everything Grayson said was true.

He may be right but what is the point of making these statements in session? I think he was just getting cold without the spotlight shining on him and decided to make another scene.

>> ^xxovercastxx:
He may be right but what is the point of making these statements in session? I think he was just getting cold without the spotlight shining on him and decided to make another scene.


Yeah, I guess you're right.

Silence is so much more effective.

Effective at what? What is he accomplishing by making these statements; particularly in session? If he had said this on a news or talk show, that would be different. Why does Congress need to talk about what a moron Giuliani is? It has no bearing on anything Congress ought to be working on.

The only thing this accomplishes, that I can think of, is it gets Grayson back in the news. I can only speculate on whether or not that's his intent, but he's clearly not doing anything productive.

>> ^rougy:
>> ^xxovercastxx:
He may be right but what is the point of making these statements in session? I think he was just getting cold without the spotlight shining on him and decided to make another scene.

Yeah, I guess you're right.
Silence is so much more effective.

He still didn't mention the other terrorist activities that occurred under Bush, like the shoebomber, anthrax, sniper attacks...

I also wonder what the point of this is? Seems like campaign talk.. not actually something that is about any particular issue? Is this really how it should work?

Point? Since when has Mr. Doofus ever had a point? He's the guy that the Democrats allow to be their crazy, cat-throwing aunt. Most of the time they keep him locked up in the attic. But every once in a while they unlock his door and take off his muzzle so he can jibber jabber. Then they take his verbal diarrhea and spoon it around HufPo, DU, and other leftist house organs for the fringe kook dogs to lick for a while. That's his only function. He's a guy the leftists use to toss red meat when they think the fringe kooks need something to chew on.

So he pops up and reads a laundry list of the Bush Administration's many failures. Yawn. Old news. What he isn't so keen on doing is making a laundry list of Barak Obama's many failures and how they are as bad or worse than Bush's.

For example - I don't really see a whole lot of people getting on Obama's case for 'taking his sweet time' in dealing with Haiti. During Katrina, people whined about Bush's slow response before the Hurricane had even left New Orleans. But the fact was Federal relief was already moving before the storm even hit, and things only got really bad because of the stupidity and sluggishness of Nagin and Blanco (Democrats). Haiti is a horrible disaster and things down there are deteriorating rapidly. Relief has been slower getting there than it was for Katrina, and yet I don't hear Mr. Doofus blaming Obama for that. Why is is OK to blame Katrina's bad outcome on Bush, but Obama gets a pass for Haiti? One simple answer... Blatant, obvious, naked, politically motived BIAS.

So I'm not impressed when Mr. Doofus rattles off a series of liberal, left-wing bones he has to pick with the Bush administration. He gets no points for that. You know what would be impressive? If he rattled off the huge, massive, impressive list of failures in the Obama administration, and his own Congress. It is at that point he would deserve some props for having a pair, and would show he was a person with principles. This? This just proves he's one more in a long line of liberal, left-wing, Democrat party lapdogs.

Just like I'm not impressed when Micheal Steele rips Democrats. Yawn. Why not rip into your own party Mikey and get after them for being big-spending, government program loving special interest tools? The Democrat party is in the process of practically HANDING you the House and maybe even the Senate this year. Why aren't you prepping your party to do the right thing and cut federal spending by 50%?

>> ^xxovercastxx:
Effective at what? What is he accomplishing by making these statements; particularly in session? If he had said this on a news or talk show, that would be different. Why does Congress need to talk about what a moron Giuliani is? It has no bearing on anything Congress ought to be working on.
The only thing this accomplishes, that I can think of, is it gets Grayson back in the news. I can only speculate on whether or not that's his intent, but he's clearly not doing anything productive.
>> ^rougy:
>> ^xxovercastxx:
He may be right but what is the point of making these statements in session? I think he was just getting cold without the spotlight shining on him and decided to make another scene.

Yeah, I guess you're right.
Silence is so much more effective.



Yeah, you're right.

He should just shut up.

You win.

During Katrina, the local government fucked up pretty much everything and the federal government went out of their way to make sure nobody could fix those mistakes. The locals did not follow procedure, initially, and when they finally got their shit together, the feds focused on making them look as bad as possible instead of helping the citizens, including blocking aid from foreign countries that offered.

I'm not sure exactly why Obama should be criticized over Haiti. See, Louisiana is part of the USA whereas Haiti is another country entirely. Obama doesn't actually have any responsibility for Haiti. I'm inclined to think any Republican criticizing Obama over Haiti is just looking for something negative to say. The Republicans have spent the last several years telling us that only US citizens matter, so why would they suddenly care about Haiti unless it's self-serving?
>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
For example - I don't really see a whole lot of people getting on Obama's case for 'taking his sweet time' in dealing with Haiti. During Katrina, people whined about Bush's slow response before the Hurricane had even left New Orleans. But the fact was Federal relief was already moving before the storm even hit, and things only got really bad because of the stupidity and sluggishness of Nagin and Blanco (Democrats). Haiti is a horrible disaster and things down there are deteriorating rapidly. Relief has been slower getting there than it was for Katrina, and yet I don't hear Mr. Doofus blaming Obama for that. Why is is OK to blame Katrina's bad outcome on Bush, but Obama gets a pass for Haiti?

>> ^rougy:
>> ^xxovercastxx:
Effective at what? What is he accomplishing by making these statements; particularly in session? If he had said this on a news or talk show, that would be different. Why does Congress need to talk about what a moron Giuliani is? It has no bearing on anything Congress ought to be working on.
The only thing this accomplishes, that I can think of, is it gets Grayson back in the news. I can only speculate on whether or not that's his intent, but he's clearly not doing anything productive.
>> ^rougy:
>> ^xxovercastxx:
He may be right but what is the point of making these statements in session? I think he was just getting cold without the spotlight shining on him and decided to make another scene.

Yeah, I guess you're right.
Silence is so much more effective.


Yeah, you're right.
He should just shut up.
You win.


No, really, you win. You're right.

What can be accomplished by speaking the truth?

Especially if your a congressman speaking on the floor of congress?

Shhhhh.....