*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/America-Is-Wall-Street-s-SUCKER-Congressman-Alan-Grayson

yay... out of the five dupes I did tonight I get one of them. now there bitch slap of a learning curve.

yes im bitter, I wasted my time.

Invocations (dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/America-Is-Wall-Street-s-SUCKER-Congressman-Alan-Grayson) cannot be called by BoneRemake because BoneRemake is not privileged - sorry.

>> ^marinara:

netrunner says ron paul's a hypocrite b/c he opposes the senate bill in general.
i think he might be a wacko libertarian, but a hypocrite?


@marinara, let's make it simple:

Ron Paul on TV wants people to think he's in cahoots with Alan Grayson to shape the bill with a bipartisan amendment.

Ron Paul in e-mail wants people screaming "Kill the bill" at Senators.

If he cares about getting the Audit the Fed thing done, one way to do that is to cut a deal with Democrats, and take the good with the bad. If what he really cares about is stopping evil socialist Democrats, he shouldn't appear in a segment with one and pretend it's a bipartisan love fest. Instead, he should make his position clear.

Add in that this Audit the Fed thing is a signature issue of his, and he doesn't even mention that he'd rather kill this bill than pass Audit the Fed as part of it.

I find the whole thing hypocritical.

So, I got this e-mail from Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty group, literally today. The first paragraph was as follows:

Dear NetRunner,

I'm not sure if you saw my email last week warning you about how dangerously close Congress is to empowering the Fed. Due to a backroom deal between Senator Reid and Senator McConnell, Republicans in Congress have ended their filibuster of Dodd's "Fed Empowerment" Act.

Time is running out to kill this legislation that would dramatically expand the powers of the Federal Reserve.

I sincerely hope you will take a few moments to read my message and take action to demand that your senators kill the Dodd "Fed Empowerment" Act.

The e-mail goes on to implore people to call their Senator to vote against the bill.

You might wonder why I quote this. It's because the "Dodd 'Fed Empowerment' Act" is the exact piece of legislation they're hoping to amend with the Audit the Fed language.

That's either hypocrisy or incompetence.

For comparison, here's an e-mail I got from Alan Grayson's campaign, also today:

Dear NetRunner,

Last year, I asked the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who received $1 trillion in funds that the Fed handed out to domestic banks and financial institutions. He said, essentially, "I'm not going to tell you." More recently, I asked the Chairman of the Fed who received the half trillion dollars - that's $500,000,000,000 - that the Fed handed over to foreign central banks. He said he didn't know. Half a trillion dollars, and he doesn't know!

That kind of ignorance and arrogance must end. We need to audit the Fed. And now we're closer than ever.

The House passed our bill to conduct the first independent audit of the Fed in its 96-year history. Now it's time for the Senate to act.

A bipartisan group of Senators is pushing for an amendment to audit the Fed. This amendment is similar to the legislation that we passed in the House last year. It's called the Federal Reserve Accountability Amendment. It will ensure that the American people know to whom the Fed is lending our money.

The e-mail goes on to implore me to call my Senators and ask them to support the Audit the Fed amendment.

This is part of why all warm feelings I once had for Ron Paul are long since gone. I'm on his e-mail list, so I know what he's asking people to call their representatives about. I know that he parroted Republican scare stories during the debate on health care. Now he's literally asking people to phonebank against reforming Wall Street, even while he's going on TV to blow his horn about how he hopes to amend the bill he's campaigning to keep from being brought to a vote (aka filibuster).

He should be embarrassed.

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Your video, Alan Grayson says "Apologize to my 5 year old" to Teabagger, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

You're off the reservation. How another sifter spends their hard-earned power points has fuck-all to do with you and your idealism.
>> ^choggie:

>> ^gwiz665:
quality

Quality why num-nuts? Because one dumb-ass, over-reacting douche bag fuck stick of a tool, makes about as much a valid case for his self-serving rant as any other placed into a mold for people to digest some non-nutritive substance for their television-addled mind??? How about, the guy on the right maintained his composure(amid his insanity) while the complete moron in the left, showed his ass and made a fucking idiot of himself.
All this to stroke one team's fans and tell the other team's fans that "We're better than you, smarter than you, and our teams gonna beat YOUUUUUR team at the big game on Friday night! Nyah nyah nyah nyah!
THIS, NetRuiner, is journalism at its pathetic worst.
Look, I don;t even know who the teapartybaggers are, and could give a fiddler's fuck. If they have one valid proposal, like anything involving civil disobedience??...ALL for it. Otherwise, they are making a mockery of freedom, like every liberal douchebag, wannabe-informed and thoughtful, etc. dysfunctional in the U.S.
Now, if it was qualeety to show just how television in the U.S. is a mind-control experiment that performs and continues to perform admirably to dumb-down even the sharpest of the tools in the shed, great. This news blurb pushes the envelope of, "Aw, they're fucking lemmings, just sell them some more horseshit."

Because I like it and because the tea party movement is a joke, numb-nuts. >> ^choggie:

>> ^gwiz665:
quality

Quality why num-nuts? Because one dumb-ass, over-reacting douche bag fuck stick of a tool, makes about as much a valid case for his self-serving rant as any other placed into a mold for people to digest some non-nutritive substance for their television-addled mind??? How about, the guy on the right maintained his composure(amid his insanity) while the complete moron in the left, showed his ass and made a fucking idiot of himself.
All this to stroke one team's fans and tell the other team's fans that "We're better than you, smarter than you, and our teams gonna beat YOUUUUUR team at the big game on Friday night! Nyah nyah nyah nyah!
THIS, NetRuiner, is journalism at its pathetic worst.
Look, I don;t even know who the teapartybaggers are, and could give a fiddler's fuck. If they have one valid proposal, like anything involving civil disobedience??...ALL for it. Otherwise, they are making a mockery of freedom, like every liberal douchebag, wannabe-informed and thoughtful, etc. dysfunctional in the U.S.
Now, if it was qualeety to show just how television in the U.S. is a mind-control experiment that performs and continues to perform admirably to dumb-down even the sharpest of the tools in the shed, great. This news blurb pushes the envelope of, "Aw, they're fucking lemmings, just sell them some more horseshit."

>> ^gwiz665:

quality


Quality why num-nuts? Because one dumb-ass, over-reacting douche bag fuck stick of a tool, makes about as much a valid case for his self-serving rant as any other placed into a mold for people to digest some non-nutritive substance for their television-addled mind??? How about, the guy on the right maintained his composure(amid his insanity) while the complete moron in the left, showed his ass and made a fucking idiot of himself.

All this to stroke one team's fans and tell the other team's fans that "We're better than you, smarter than you, and our teams gonna beat YOUUUUUR team at the big game on Friday night! Nyah nyah nyah nyah!

THIS, NetRuiner, is journalism at its pathetic worst.

Look, I don;t even know who the teapartybaggers are, and could give a fiddler's fuck. If they have one valid proposal, like anything involving civil disobedience??...ALL for it. Otherwise, they are making a mockery of freedom, like every liberal douchebag, wannabe-informed and thoughtful, etc. dysfunctional in the U.S.

Now, if it was *qualeety to show just how television in the U.S. is a mind-control experiment that performs and continues to perform admirably to dumb-down even the sharpest of the tools in the shed, great. This news blurb pushes the envelope of, "Aw, they're fucking lemmings, just sell them some more horseshit."

You should check out some more Grayson "debates" then, because he's fucking terrible at it. He's all about emotional response. It wouldn't surprise me to see him go an entire debate without ever addressing the topic. I'm waiting for the day that he yells out "Yeah? Well my dad can beat up your dad!"

>> ^acidSpine:

I think the low quality of debate is due to the piss poor moderation by Sanchez

Grayson was saying the whole movement has been about stoking fear and promoting a mindless environment completely out of touch with reality that's pushing people into violence. The other guy's trying to use a defense of the the guy who finally tampered with the propane tanks at the senator's house is now kicked out - not taking responsibility for stoking that fear that caused the murder attempt. They're both playing the same game of make your point over and over to win the interview on these news shows, Grayson just did it better. People who try to politely make their point when the other side doesn't do the same courtesy just lose on these shows.

>> ^RedSky:

If Grayson wants to make the accusation that Republicans are inciting violence he needs to provide examples, and yes there are plenty to make the case. As far as the interview goes, he really only provided empty rhetoric, and effectively filibustered the other guy.

@BoneyD and @Psychologic, let me see if I can clarify what I mean.

I'm also suspicious of what corporations will be able to get politicians to do, and worry that another conservative President will wash through and basically put all the regulators on paid vacations again.

I don't see how a public option or single payer would serve as protection against that. If a conservative intent on making government look bad gets to run it, they're going to try to run it into the ground. They'll try to outsource functions of the public option or Medicare (like they did with, you know, Medicare). If it's a public option competing against private insurance in the exchange, they'll hamstring the public option with all kinds of stupid requirements like pre-paying retiree health benefits (a poison pill they rammed down the throat of the Post Office, BTW) to make it look on paper like it's a huge fiscal mess. Or if they're feeling particularly ornery, they may try to abolish or privatize it outright.

I'm not so sure that campaign finance reform is a silver bullet for fixing that.

I tend to think that being a shill for a big industry gets Democrats mad (see our treatment of Lieberman, Lincoln, and Landrieu), while standing up to them makes you a hero (see Sherrod Brown, Alan Grayson, and to a large degree Nancy Pelosi). For Republicans it seems like as long as their corporatism sounds conservative (tax cuts....for just oil companies, and the top .05%), their base rallies around them.

It's hard to establish accountability on issues of corporate influence when conservatives can't ever be caught dead saying anything bad about big business. Ever.

Everybody wins.
>> ^mxxcon:

In a fight Anthony Weiner vs Alan Grayson, who would win?

That's not a vs. fight, that's a tag team fight. And we all win.
>> ^mxxcon:

In a fight Anthony Weiner vs Alan Grayson, who would win?

In a fight Anthony Weiner vs Alan Grayson, who would win?