• February 15, 2012

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]

{ 62 comments }

Cape Clod October 1, 2009 at 12:17 pm

Except… there is nothing to apologize for.

memzilla October 1, 2009 at 12:17 pm

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

Min October 1, 2009 at 12:18 pm

Apologies? We don’t need no stinkin’ apologies!

ManchuCandidate October 1, 2009 at 12:19 pm

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!.

Dave J. October 1, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Still better than Harry Reid, who would indicate his disgust with Rep. Grayson by co-sponsoring a new “health reform” bill with Jim Inhofe.

teebob2000 October 1, 2009 at 12:20 pm

She should just say, “and to my Republicans colleagues, with regards to Representative Grayson, I respectfully say, ‘Suck.’ ‘My.’ ‘Dick.’”

tootsieroll October 1, 2009 at 12:20 pm

What else can we be?
All apologies.

pondscum October 1, 2009 at 12:21 pm

[re=424539]ManchuCandidate[/re]: We called that game “Screw your neighbor” and were not sorry about it.

norbizness October 1, 2009 at 12:22 pm

The Unification Church and Government-Buying Concern, LLC will happily reserve Camden Yards to facilitate this mass apology.

gjdodger October 1, 2009 at 12:23 pm

“You TELL THE TRUTH!”

/the anti-Joe Wilson

hunter.blatherer October 1, 2009 at 12:25 pm

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.

freakishlystrong October 1, 2009 at 12:26 pm

Fuck that group hug shit. I propose a group crotch-kicking, Dems get steel-toed boots. Grayson kicks that asshole Joe the Wilson first.

doxastic October 1, 2009 at 12:27 pm

And thus, the pantywaistification of the Democratic party comes to completion.

EnBuenOra October 1, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Fuck you, Nancy. Don’t fucking apologize, Alan.

StrangelyBrown October 1, 2009 at 12:27 pm

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.

Beanball October 1, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Maybe I’m slow, but did somebody put a ban on alt-text?

OzoneTom October 1, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Time to double-down Democrats!

Prommie October 1, 2009 at 12:28 pm

She’s doin’ it wrong.

Prommie October 1, 2009 at 12:30 pm

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.

SmutBoffin October 1, 2009 at 12:30 pm

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.

SayItWithWookies October 1, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Hey, Republicans — if you can’t take the heat, get out of the death panel. Crybabies.

EnBuenOra October 1, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Whoops. Read that wrong. Nancy was disagreeing? Sorry Nancy, O me of little faith. Go Nancy!

Crank Tango October 1, 2009 at 12:33 pm

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.

Prommie October 1, 2009 at 12:36 pm

[re=424581]EnBuenOra[/re]: 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.”

NopantsMcGee October 1, 2009 at 12:38 pm

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?

NopantsMcGee October 1, 2009 at 12:39 pm

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.

Tommmcatt October 1, 2009 at 12:41 pm

[re=424566]Beanball[/re]:

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!

Beanball October 1, 2009 at 12:47 pm

[re=424578]SmutBoffin[/re]: Wrong country there, buddy. On the other hand, Nancy should have been benched two election cycles ago.

teebob2000 October 1, 2009 at 12:51 pm

[re=424566]Beanball[/re]: Yo, J-Wein don’t roll like that.

tiny mexican October 1, 2009 at 12:54 pm

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.

zaccapeters October 1, 2009 at 12:56 pm

@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.

davesnothere October 1, 2009 at 12:58 pm

Wingnuts hate Nancy. I hate wingnuts. Ergo, lay off Nancy.

OReillysVibrator October 1, 2009 at 12:59 pm

If Nancy Pelosi dies he’ll apologize to her.

Guppy06 October 1, 2009 at 12:59 pm
hobospacejunkie October 1, 2009 at 12:59 pm

[re=424578]SmutBoffin[/re]: 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.

hobospacejunkie October 1, 2009 at 1:03 pm

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.

Crank Tango October 1, 2009 at 1:04 pm

[re=424638]tiny mexican[/re]: I guess it is just a knee-jerk reaction from our constant sucking these days.

queeraselvis v 2.0 October 1, 2009 at 1:08 pm

What’s that I hear? The sound of Democrats actually growing backbones and/or visible genitalia? I’m shocked, SHOCKED!

glamourdammerung October 1, 2009 at 1:13 pm

[re=424665]hobospacejunkie[/re]: 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.

AbstinenceOnly Ed October 1, 2009 at 1:18 pm

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.

Guppy06 October 1, 2009 at 1:23 pm
TGY October 1, 2009 at 1:26 pm

“Typically, Republicans would like to use this as distraction because they have no plan,” Pelosi said.

And that’s the real quote.

assistant/atlas October 1, 2009 at 1:35 pm

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.”

Capitol Hillbilly October 1, 2009 at 1:36 pm

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.

Way Cool Larry October 1, 2009 at 1:39 pm

But Pelosi was so awesome when she went after Bush for warrantless wiretaps and torture… oh wait. Nevermind.

leftcoaster October 1, 2009 at 1:40 pm

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.

glamourdammerung October 1, 2009 at 1:47 pm

[re=424738]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: I am not sure there has been a worse party “leader” than Reid in either party in my lifetime.

user-of-owls October 1, 2009 at 1:50 pm

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?

Zadig October 1, 2009 at 1:53 pm

[re=424539]ManchuCandidate[/re]: So Sorry that I just WON, bitch!

BeWoot October 1, 2009 at 2:03 pm

[re=424656]hobospacejunkie[/re]: 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.

jasper f. krone October 1, 2009 at 2:04 pm

[re=424713]Guppy06[/re]: 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.

bitchincamaro October 1, 2009 at 2:13 pm

Meh. She’s an annoying twat, but she’s our twat.

totoro October 1, 2009 at 3:07 pm

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.

RushLickBall October 1, 2009 at 3:18 pm

[re=424738]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: No doubt due to below the belt botox.

natteringnabomb October 1, 2009 at 5:42 pm

These putrid animated cellular structures are beyond redemption.

The Other Sarah T October 1, 2009 at 5:49 pm

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.

Little Old Lady October 1, 2009 at 6:57 pm

“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.

LowerdPeninsula October 2, 2009 at 3:53 am

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?

LowerdPeninsula October 2, 2009 at 3:57 am

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.

villageatrois October 2, 2009 at 5:26 am

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.

IonaTrailer October 2, 2009 at 12:51 pm

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.

PoignancySelz October 2, 2009 at 8:26 pm

we all know who is behind Grayson….
Bill Ayers

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