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Hello, Democratic Congressman from Florida Alan Grayson! We hear you have a few rather saucy remarks about the Republicans’ health care plan…… or lack thereof! Ha! Right though? Okay hit it, Mr. Man: “That’s right! The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick!”
Caustic, that trademark Ocala, FL wit.
[via Daily Intel]
11:18 AM
on Wed September 30 2009
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Juli Weiner
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Sadly enough, this is by far the best thing the Democrats have done regarding health care this year. Any relation to Bob Allan?
Attention DNC: you need more douchebag clowns like this guy… not less. Remember, you audience is the American people.
Time for endless Faux outrage from the party of no and gay airport bathroom sex. Mr. Grayson will be forced to apologize any minute now.
That seemingly tongue-in-cheek remark wasn’t exactly appreciated by Republican leaders, who have called on Grayson to apologize and for Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote of reprimand.
Eric Cantor is a big nelly. Now that, if said on the floor of the House, would require an apology. Saying the Republican plan is nonexistent? Sorry, you big nellies — the LORD is the only nonexistent thing that gets offended when that’s said out loud. Nellies. Sissies. Crybabies.
Ugh, you know when someone builds up a joke for that long that the punchline is going to be horrible.
Where is Joe “White Power” Wilson? Why didn’t he stand up and scream “You Lie!”? Why doesn’t he stand up against this horrible bla…er white guy?
He left out the part about only going to the ER when it’s too late and giving a fake name, thereby jacking up overall costs. Other than that, not bad.
We need to figure out a way to get this one and Barney Frank to produce offspring. Especially if that way involves incubation inside the “blue dogs”.
Very good. The GOP will stop all this malingering and slow dying that cost so much.
Grayson is pretty entertaining. Matt Taibbi had a funny post on the guy recently.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/09/25/have-the-federal-reserve-or-prime-brokers-ever-tried-to-manipulate-the-stock-market/
Um, I don’t think he was trying to be funny. That pretty much IS the Republican plan.
I’m donating to this guy. He’s also the one that figured out that the Republics wrote such a shitty, broad bill condemning and defunding ACORN!!1, they managed to actually defund the entire MIC. In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz; “HAHA!”.
Serolf Divad: That would actually make the Democrats effective. Which is a strange and foreign concept. We need to start being just as big of raving lunatics as the Republicans. No, we need to be BIGGER, LOUDER, CRAZIER in order for anyone to take us seriously on the right (read: Beck/Savage/Fatass-Oxy-Addict).
I think I love this guy.
Are we still supposed to care about health care reform? Because I was feeling a bit Leon Klinghoffer-y vis-a-vis the Democratic Party & their determination to thwart the will of 65 percent polled who favor a public option.
Is this the Illuminati attempting to re-kindle the “Grayson” meme? Dick Grayson, of course, “The youngest in a family of acrobats known as the ‘Flying Graysons,’” became Robin, the Boy Wonder, then Nightwing …
Sweet Baby Cheeses: Me too. ‘Course, I am a person who goes into uncontrollable snickers when I remember Hugo Chavez calling George Bush the devil, so…
Hmm. Totally consistent. So, me too. Yeah.
Hillrat85 is not impressed by this!
Nice Times New Roman Bold Underlined, the preferred Republican font.
hobospacejunkie: feeling a bit Leon Klinghoffer-y; as in, feebled and helpless while being tossed to the sharks from your wheelchair by jackals?
That seemingly tongue-in-cheek remark wasn’t exactly appreciated by Republican leaders, who have called on Grayson to apologize and for Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote of reprimand.
I’ll apologize right after you kiss my ass.
I’d vote for him.
Needs more rim shots.
And a laugh track would have been cool.
I’m surprised that no one has invoked Bill Hicks here.
“That’s what the Republicans want? Well, that’s funny… ’cause I was thinking, ‘That’s what I want the Republicans to do too!’”
i just called grayson’s office to tell him to keep up the good work. that’s right. i just called grayson’s office.
that’s right.
@bitchincamaro: Yes. Max Baucus and other blue dog dickface party traitors are the jackals, while the uninsured, sacrificed to die on the altar of Big Health Care, are the Leon Klinghoffers.
hobospacejunkie: Noooo! I’m leaving for a cruise Sunday. Now I’m all, “This boat is obviously sinkin’!” instead of “I’m on a boat,I’m on a boat, take a good hard look at the motherfucking boat.”
God love you, Rep.Grayson. I’ll be happy to send you the money I would have sent to Bill Nelson.
Let’s see, who’s more effective: this marvelous ape or Harry Reid, e.g.? Kick some ass, Shrek.
shadowMark: I can’t see this Grayson with Koriand’r
Well now we know what was written on those pieces of paper the Republicans were holding. And that line, “I thought they wanted Obama’s autograph…” oh my god, I split my sides open.
Wait, wait wait…the people of Ocala elected a Democrat?
Comic timing and speechifying - B- (honestly, by Washington standards, it was pretty good)
Being fucking right on - A+
Why do I have to be stuck with John Mica instead?
Monsieur Grumpe: I’m probably not the only one who thought of that “lord of the Flies” video when they read “rim shot.”
rev_matt_y: Heh, y’see, it’s funny ’cause it’s true!
(Alt. take #1: Heh, it’s not funny, ’cause it’s true!)
Epic win. I’m totally writing this guy a letter of appreciation.
Mr. Patient: “Do you expect me to get better Doc?”
Republican Doc: “No Mr. Patient, I expect you to Die.”
(cue the Freakin Laser) roll laughtrack
Re: general obtuseness and health-care reform in particular. The gripey oldz partay couldn’t be more offensive if they were all gargling rancid tuna twat squeezins’. Come to think of it, maybe they should be required to do so under the Truth in Labeling Act. Or something.
Slightly off-topic: Ocala chicks are easier to open than a Subway’s franchise.
Shorter GOP reaction: “You want the truth?!?! You want the truth?!?! WE CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!”
Hey, even a party of whining milquetoast pointy-headed nerds need an attack dog or two.
Next: Republicans don’t want to address global warming because they want Seniors to breathe toxic air and . . . . DIE!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, if this Grayson guy says that, I’ll send him a big shiny silver dollar for 2010!
Grayson/Franken ‘16 FTW!
I’d say Pelosi will be on teh tubez tut-tutting Grayson for not having a bipartisan spirit before sundown.
http://bit.ly/1a8Wuj /Anyone 2016!
Makes me slightly proud to live in Ocala. Slightly.
Actual paper posters! How quaint. He needs to work on his ‘fades’.
Supposedly, they are introducing a reprimand at noon.
Actually, this has potential for some real fun. “Why weren’t there any Republicans there in the chamber to shout ‘You lie!’ or murmur in shocked indignation?”
“Why were there no Democrats to cheer and applaud this hero?”
“Why isn’t C-SPAN allowed to show the House floor?”
Has anyone found a “donate” link on either of his websites? All I can find is links to services he provides to his constituents, and HELPFUL and RELEVANT INFORMATION for and about his district. I’m confused. Is this guy really a congressman?
Apologies for the caps. Really they seemed less shouty in the courier font in the text box. Won’t happen again.
Carrie_Okie: While nothing will make me join twitter (I just don’t have the required attention span), that guy sure is fantastic.
Monsieur Grumpe: “Needs more rim shots.” I’m fairly sure you meant ‘jobs’, right?
CaiteeCruelle: FireDogLake has a donation link
KilgoreTrout_XL: It’s the Taibbi article with this quote, right? Saw it on Crooks and Liars:
We were having a disagreement about the use of information given to me by a certain source in a story about military contracting, and in the middle of what had been a normal contentious argument between two sane adults, dude suddenly assumed this crazy monster-voice and just went medieval on me. He was roaring into the telephone about how he was going to crush me, how I was going to wish I had never messed with him, how I didn’t know who the hell I was dealing with, and so on. One phrase I remember in particular was, “I am going to strip the bark off of you!” It came totally out of the blue and it was like being on the telephone with a metamorphosing werewolf — the whole performance genuinely freaked me out. I may even have peed a little, I can’t remember.
When I heard Alan Grayson was running for Congress, I remember thinking to myself, That Alan Grayson? The lunatic? It can’t be, I thought. I kept imagining trails of half-eaten sheep leading to his campaign appearances.
mephistopheles jefferson: Speaking for the Other Team - add a 6-pack o’ beer and so are Ocala boys. Yeeeeeeeee-HAW…
number 2 was “and if you do get sick…”
number 3 was “die quickly”
aren’t those really the same step?
I didn’t realize Benny from “L.A. Law” had run for office.
“Thank you very much, Madam Speaker” is the new “That’s my time, tip your waitress”.
Grayson vs. Franks.
He’s not from Ocala — Orlando!! Those pesky “O” cities…
Grayson’s pretty awesome–doing the defense industry defunding thing via the anti-ACORN legislation (which is all kinds of awesome), and one of the bills he’s sponsoring would require all American employers to provide at least a week’s paid vacation, instead of the “none” that they’re currently required to provide….unlike, you know, every other developed country in the world.
Now, granted, that’s probably because he represents tourist-mecca Orlando, but still….that’s European-style socialism I can believe in.
My goodness, a Dem with a spine (and the will to hit back hard…you know it hurt, ’cause Reputards were left with sniffing, ‘he needs to appoligize…whaaa!’)
…in other news the current temperature in Hell just dropped a few degrees
CaiteeCruelle:
http://www.actblue.com/page/graysonapology
This real Ammurican got a couple bucks from me.
Loved his “apology”.
Where was this guy when the Dems first started this whole debate?
He should have been selling this plan.
Not Obama.
assistant/atlas: Alan Grayson (D-Magic Kingdom)?
Grayson’s passing resemblance to a hypothyroidal Mike Eisner, optional…
Norbert: I know, right.