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Nancy Pelosi wakes up every day and picks something to make worse. Today it is the ostentatiously minor “Alan Grayson Affair,” in which Floridian Congressman Alan Grayson went sooo crazy at some Orlando Kinko’s and came back with sassy hyperbolic poster-boards. Anyway, so Nancy Pelosi could have easily been like, “Alan: just mumble some bad-faith apology on Rachel Maddow or whatever and we will reimburse you for the Kinko’s purchases.” It being Nancy Pelosi, she of course did the opposite.
It’s like, why should Alan Grayson apologize when other people—SUBTEXT: Republicans!—also have things to apologize for? How is that even democracy??
“If anybody’s going apologize, everybody should apologize,” Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference. “We are holding Democrats to a higher standard than their own members.”
Oh and the Democrats want to socialize apologies now too.
[The Hill]
Except… there is nothing to apologize for.
1. Take cerebrospinal fluid from Congressman Grayson, clone it, and inject it into his fellow Democrats so that they will grow a f***ing spine already.
2. Serve Speaker Pelosi a heapin’ helpin’ of STFU.
/fixed
Apologies? We don’t need no stinkin’ apologies!
This reminds me of the real life version of the board game (yes, kiddums there were such things as board games) called Sorry! where everyone was Sorry about being Sorry, but not really.
I really fucking hated Sorry!.
Still better than Harry Reid, who would indicate his disgust with Rep. Grayson by co-sponsoring a new “health reform” bill with Jim Inhofe.
She should just say, “and to my Republicans colleagues, with regards to Representative Grayson, I respectfully say, ‘Suck.’ ‘My.’ ‘Dick.’”
What else can we be?
All apologies.
ManchuCandidate: We called that game “Screw your neighbor” and were not sorry about it.
The Unification Church and Government-Buying Concern, LLC will happily reserve Camden Yards to facilitate this mass apology.
“You TELL THE TRUTH!”
/the anti-Joe Wilson
Gah, I really can’t stand the sight of this fraud. I lived with a friend of hers for several months and they both had the same mannerisms and patterns of speech. Both think of a promise as having a shelf life of 5 seconds.
If you ever hear the phrase, “let me see if I understand this properly,” or any variation thereof, I advice you to back up slowly.
Fuck that group hug shit. I propose a group crotch-kicking, Dems get steel-toed boots. Grayson kicks that asshole Joe the Wilson first.
And thus, the pantywaistification of the Democratic party comes to completion.
Fuck you, Nancy. Don’t fucking apologize, Alan.
I first read the headline as “Nancy Pelosi Would Like To Drag Alan Grayson’s Thing Out For Another Hot Sex”. And then I was disappointed.
Maybe I’m slow, but did somebody put a ban on alt-text?
Time to double-down Democrats!
She’s doin’ it wrong.
And BTW, Juli, the traditional Irish folk saying is “there is no situation on earth that a cop can’t make worse.” Now that you point it out, this applies to Pelosi, as well.
By Crom, she looks like she has binder clips on the back of her neck and scalp, pulling her face taut.
Smarmy Democrat flavor-of-the-week Alan Grayson can bite my ass, too. I predict that the infatuation with this worthless back-bencher will not last the rest of the day.
Hey, Republicans — if you can’t take the heat, get out of the death panel. Crybabies.
Whoops. Read that wrong. Nancy was disagreeing? Sorry Nancy, O me of little faith. Go Nancy!
Um, when Michele Bachmann apologizes, that’s when Mr. Fancy Ties should. I think I am starting to hate Nancy Pelosi as much as the wingnuts do. OK that’s not true, but still.
EnBuenOra: Nancy is one of those of whom it can be said that her approval is something more like the disapproval of someone you respect, than actual approval. As in “please don’t try to help, Nancy.”
Hell. Now I have to have grudging respect for Pelosi.
What is it with Democrats having spines? Who are these people and what have they done with the usual species of invertebres?
Ummm am I reading something wrong here? I thought Nan was saying Grayson should not apologize for something that Republicans have been doing all year?
Someone help. I know not who to boo.
Beanball:
Now that we’ve all been in a relationship with Wonkette for a few years, we have to beg for alt. Sometimes the editors withhold alt to get what they want. Most of the time they just tell us they are too tired or have a headache which prevents them from giving alt.
Newell gave us alt last year on my birthday, though. Good Times!
SmutBoffin: Wrong country there, buddy. On the other hand, Nancy should have been benched two election cycles ago.
Beanball: Yo, J-Wein don’t roll like that.
Hold up, are we disagreeing with what Pelosi said? That Grayson shouldn’t have to apologize cause Republicans suck? Because he shouldn’t, and they do.
@SmutBoffin: How about I bite your ass as a proxy? Oh, that? That’s just my Rottie helper dog, nothing to worry about. Now just bend over real nice like and drop trou.
Wingnuts hate Nancy. I hate wingnuts. Ergo, lay off Nancy.
If Nancy Pelosi dies he’ll apologize to her.
“They were whining. That’s what they do, they’re Republicans.”
SmutBoffin: I will be infatuated with The Right Honorable Rep. Grayson until he does something blue doggy, which I predict will be never, or at least not until Pelosi’s whip forces all the Dems into another emasculating vote in the spirit of non-existent bipartisanship.
Hello everybody. I’m as disappointed in Pelosi as the next guy, but she’s actually standing up for Grayson here. However, I appreciate that it can be difficult to wrest oneself from the torpor that is reflexively loathing anything Pelosi does. Just in this instance she’s actually done something positive.
tiny mexican: I guess it is just a knee-jerk reaction from our constant sucking these days.
What’s that I hear? The sound of Democrats actually growing backbones and/or visible genitalia? I’m shocked, SHOCKED!
hobospacejunkie: I am on the fence on this one. I have not decided if she is trying to get everyone to apologise to force Grayson to do so or because she knows the GOP will never apologise no matter how wrong they are.
Added Pelosi, “Grayson should apologize to me & Harry Reid, for making us look bad by providing actual leadership and assertiveness rather than mealy-mouthed dipshit-plomacy and ham-fisted bifartisanshit.” She then apologized to her gammy (Bathsheba? Lot’s Wife? Eve?) for the rude swears.
The Republicans “hit back.”
Grayson thanks “Republican hypocrites” for helping him get all those campaign contributions these past few days.
“Typically, Republicans would like to use this as distraction because they have no plan,” Pelosi said.
And that’s the real quote.
I’m glad Grayson said it, but seriously, he needs to take lessons in cutting wit from Barney Frank (or, if he’s not available, Robert Gibbs), because considering how many sucky things Republicans do all the time every day, we should be able to come up with better material than “Republicans want you to die quickly.”
In a town chock-full of self-important assholes, Nancy Pelosi rose to the top.
But it’s true, she has bigger balls than Harry.
But Pelosi was so awesome when she went after Bush for warrantless wiretaps and torture… oh wait. Nevermind.
Pelosi is the PETA of Congress. I want to agree with some of her basic principles but she’s so damn annoying and willfully adversarial, I can’t.
Capitol Hillbilly: I am not sure there has been a worse party “leader” than Reid in either party in my lifetime.
Um, “We are holding Democrats to a higher standard than their own members.”?
Nobody has touched that yet?!
Am I right to assume that this means Democrats with bigger (taller?) erections will be held to higher standards than their more penile-challenged peers?
ManchuCandidate: So Sorry that I just WON, bitch!
hobospacejunkie: OK, Nancy gets points for trying. But unless she is misquoted here, she did a lousy job of telling the GOOPs to fuck off. A little straight talk was in order; instead she gives squishy blather.
Guppy06: This guy just keeps piling on the awesomeness!
And who are these Republicans with so much time on their hands that, in a day and a half, can develop a “disgrayson” website, devoted entirely to the dissing of Grayson? They have three pages of articles which purportedly “chronicle Alan Grayson’s disgraceful record”, spanning all of Wednesday, Sept 30.
Meh. She’s an annoying twat, but she’s our twat.
He should update his visual aids and make it a weekly show. I like the raw, folksy style. He needs to go further and do the cards in freehand sharpie, and get all Dylan/INXS and fling the posters over his back as he goes.
Capitol Hillbilly: No doubt due to below the belt botox.
These putrid animated cellular structures are beyond redemption.
More on the anti-Baucus (from a Christian Science Monitor profile):
‘When his hometown paper, the Orlando Sentinel,(Grayson) suggested that “some say” his style “may quickly rub his new colleagues the wrong way,” he responded: “Well, ‘some say’ that the Sentinel is a trashy tabloid that dresses up bias and gossip as news.”’
And you just know that his unfortunately-named kids are better than Tundra Trash’s unfortunately-named kids.
“We are holding Democrats to a higher standard than their own members.”
Well, we know that Dems have members. The question is: Do they have balls? ANY balls at all.
I’m with a few on here that actually read the quote. Isn’t she saying in an almost smart-assed tone: “We’ll apologize, when they apologize” which is basically translated to “we’ll apologize when hell freezes over” because she knows that the GOP never apologizes?
BTW, if someone would have asked me the question about the Grayson ‘controversy’ I’d have probably simply told them to fuck off, because I’m tired of the media making controversies out of nothing. But, I’d probably not be Speaker, then. So, meh.
One more thing, I’m getting pissed already about the GOP trying to create a false equivalency between this and Joe Wilson’s outburst. They are not even remotely comparable, but that’s never stopped the GOP from making false equivalencies of everything. To them, ground chuck = filet mignon, because they both happen to be beef.
If anyone’s going to commit suicide,, everyone’s going to commit suicide. There.
Nancy Pinata lives in a heavily oriential district where “apologize” and “suicide” often mean the same thing. Not her fault, may she rest in peace.
Whooo-hooo, you go Alan Grayson! I’d like to see him get John Boner in a head-lock and muss up his hair on national teevee.
we all know who is behind Grayson….
Bill Ayers