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Alan Grayson Wants Michael Steele To Go To Jail For Causing The Gulf Oil Spill

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As soon as an oil company was caught possibly behaving inappropriately close to his district, it was a matter of time before Florida Congressman Alan Grayson came out and denounced the Devil Dick Cheney for his Halliburton sins. But on talk radio’s Stephanie Miller show today, he threw us a curveball: it’s not Cheney he wants to see in jail for the BP oil leak, it’s… RNC Chairman Michael Steele?

Actually, compared to some of the other antics in Grayson’s portfolio, this one is rather tame. Asked what he would do if someone called him and argued that the liberal position against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was responsible for the disaster currently overtaking the Gulf of Mexico, Grayson answered he would just “hang up.” And then he had another idea: “How about just tracking down every single person who said ‘drill baby drill’ and putting them all in prison. Why don’t we do that? Starting with Michael Steele.”

Miller was sympathetic to the idea, noting that it was frustrating that the people blaming President Obama for the trouble, according to her, were actually the ones responsible. He was probably in the heat of the moment– it isn’t difficult to believe with Grayson– but, um, there are some serious First Amendment issues that need to be addressed before we put anyone in jail for coining a silly phrase. And if coining silly phrases become a crime punishable by jail, the oil spill will be the least of Michael Steele’s worries.

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  • felixw

    Let’s face it, Democrats may not know how to fix any problems, but when it comes to playing the Blame Game, no one does it with more enthusiasm. And they get plenty of chances, since the longer the Democrats are in power, the more problems there are for passing the buck and finger-pointing.

  • AmericanCowboy

    Alan Grayson is a Racist

  • PureFreedom

    I am sure glad Alan Grayson is on the left.
    He is one of the most embarrassing figures out there today.
    He looks like the typical creepy pedophile you would see on the show “to catch a predator”
    He is all yours liberals!!!!

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    This picture says it all……..

    http://www.moonbattery.com/alan-grayson.jpg

  • Ination

    @felixw

    Of course! Republicans NEVER blame anyone for anything.

  • AmericanCowboy

    This nutbag Grayson is making our laws people. This is scary!!!!! Oh but I guess we have a Commie President so were are just F’ed all around.

  • BR

    Or maybe we can put the politician who took the most money from BP in jail. Bye bye Obama

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Obviously you can’t send people to jail for being stupid or all our prisons would be filled with teabaggers.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    BFD your are definitly Greyson Jr.

  • Christine

    I thought BFD used to be amusing. Now all he does is go on about “teabaggers”? YAWN

    Who doesn’t Grayson want in prison? He wanted some lady in Florida imprisoned b/c she has an anti-Grayson website. http://www.mycongressmanisnuts.com/

  • AmericanCowboy

    Big_F-ing_Deal says: June 4, 2010 at 6:13 pm: “Obviously you can’t send people to jail for being stupid or all our prisons would be filled with teabaggers.”

    —-x—–x——x——x——x——x——-x——–x——-x—

    Visiting Democrats? I don’t think so. Let them Dems rot.

  • BR

    No BFD. Everyone who voted for Obama would be in jail. Hows that hope & change working for ya?

  • me1ranger

    Grayson reminds me of that Jack-in-the-box guy…sans the makeup and the snazzy little hat.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Is he even human ? Did you ever look in a goat’s eyes ? Devil eyes . Grayson has the eyes of a goat and dresses like the Devil’s lawyer .

  • felixw

    Ination, Republicans have a very good track record of getting stuff accomplished. Reagan says “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”…and the wall comes down. Bush says he will cut taxes…and he cuts taxes. He says he will take Saddam Hussein out of office, and he takes Saddam Hussein out of office.

    And the Democrats? They promise things they never deliver one — ending poverty, affordable healthcare, better education. And four years later, they are promising the same stuff, but never deliver on any of it. And if you have any doubts, just look at the inner cities. Virtually all of them have been run by Democrats for the last fifty years, and the problems just get worse and worse and worse…..

    So the Democrats have learned to play the Blame Game to distract attention from their feeble track record and inability to deliver on the stuff they promise.

  • me1ranger

    Keep ‘em down, dumb, angry, and bus them to the polls. They do that well.

  • Moderate

    “They promise things they never deliver one — ending poverty”

    If they ended poverty, they would have no voters.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    “Asked what he would do if someone called him and argued that the liberal position against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was responsible for the disaster currently overtaking the Gulf of Mexico, Grayson answered he would just “hang up.” And then he had another idea: “How about just tracking down every single person who said ‘drill baby drill’ and putting them all in prison. Why don’t we do that? Starting with Michael Steele.””

    Grayson answered the question asked – and his answer was exponentially less stupid than the idea that “liberal position against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was responsible for the disaster currently overtaking the Gulf of Mexico” — of course, you’ll see that all over Fox Not News Channel or spread by Andrew Not So Breitbart.

  • MichelleF

    denounced the Devil Dick Cheney

    Frances, you are truly pathetic.

  • lazzzlo

    These Headlines are written to incite , aren’t they?

    I do feel like a moth going to a flame.

    Grayson is a very intelligent man who, thankfully, is in Florida’s 8th district, whilst I have a Rep in the 24th district who’s not too much better.

    He purposely is playing an antagonistic idiot. He reminds me a lot of James Trafficant from Ohio ( again, another Rep. that I had to live with). Any media is better than no media.

    Grayson knows how to make a spectacle and it is an election year.

  • lazzzlo

    I live in Central Florida on the coast…Grayson is a Rep for some bizarre district scenario of Metro and rural Orlando. No suburbs.

    I am seriously not a fan of his; but his political moves are brilliant. personally, I wouldn’t want to see a politician do this on the Right wing do what he does….and I’ve voted for and criticized John Boehner when I lived in Ohio.

    Alan Grayson has sued people for their comments about him on blogs.

    His logic is still full of _____!

  • lazzzlo

    That was immature but I do feel better!

  • nocountryforwho

    Is there a way to turn off comments on this website? You guys distract my peaceful reading of blog posts.

  • jrcmi

    “Alan Grayson is a Racist”

    Ridiculous . . . as is Steele.

    “I am sure glad Alan Grayson is on the left.”

    So is the left. THEY’RE glad “Rant” Paul is on the (ultra) right.

    “I guess we have a Commie President”

    A “commie” prez who takes big $$$ from Big Oil? Impossible.

    “BFD your are definitly Greyson Jr.”

    Was that supposed to be an insult?

    “Who doesn’t Grayson want in prison?”

    Non-paranoids.

    By the way; your cell is ready.

    “Hows that hope & change working for ya?”

    It would work better if the Republicants worked AT ALL.

    “Is he even human ? Did you ever look in a goat’s eyes ? Devil eyes . Grayson has the eyes of a goat and dresses like the Devil’s lawyer .”

    Man, you GOTTA lay off those funny mushrooms!

    “Republicans have a very good track record of getting stuff accomplished.”

    For their fat-cat pals? Hell, yeah.

    ” Reagan says “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”…and the wall comes down.”

    Reagan says “DOUBLE social security taxes” . . . and. . . .

    Reagan says “Spend like drunken sailors – screw the deficit AND the taxpayers” . . .and. . . .

    “Bush says he will cut taxes…and he cuts taxes.”

    For his fat-cat pals (see above). Obama cut taxes for people earning LESS than $200K. You’re welcome.

    ” He says he will take Saddam Hussein out of office, and he takes Saddam Hussein out of office.”

    Illegally . . . at a cost of as much as $3 TRILLION, thousands of needlessly dead American soldiers and as many as a million Iraqi civilians. Bush is a war criminal.

    “And the Democrats? They promise things they never deliver one — ending poverty,”

    The Republicants poverty plan: keep ‘em poor!

    “affordable healthcare,”

    Despite Republican goldbricking, it’s on the way.

    You may recall the Repub’s health care plan, per Grayson:

    1) Don’t get sick.

    2) If you DO get sick, die quick.

    ” better education.”

    No Child’s Behind Left is on the way OUT. Lucky kids.

    ” And four years later, they are promising the same stuff, but never deliver on any of it. ”

    FOUR years? I seem to recall a Republicant administration up until a year-and-a-half ago. Must’ve larnt yore math under No Child Left Ejumacated.

    “And if you have any doubts, just look at the inner cities. Virtually all of them have been run by Democrats for the last fifty years, and the problems just get worse and worse and worse…..”

    I’d ask for some objective proof, but you don’t have any.

    Republicans held power for most of those years. Their poor governance didn’t end at the city limits.

    So the Democrats have learned to play the Blame Game to distract attention from their feeble track record and inability to deliver on the stuff they promise.”

    The Republicants INVENTED the “blame game” – and it’s YOUR FAULT! See how easy it is?

    Considering how utterly useless the Republicants in Congress have been – except as human doorstops – I wouldn’t be too quick to mention “feeble track records.”

    “Keep ‘em down, dumb, angry, and bus them to the polls.”

    The bus will pick you up at noon.

    “If they ended poverty, they would have no voters.”

    Obama won; therefore, most voters are poor? Even BUSH couldn’t have screwed things up THAT badly . . . could he?

    “Frances, you are truly pathetic.”

    She was joking. Lighten up!

    “Is there a way to turn off comments on this website?”

    Don’t read ‘em. Sheesh.

    Grayson is refreshingly straightforward. He says what he means and means what he says.

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    Mr./Ms.
    Jrcmi

    Mr. Bush/ Mrs. Bush are genuine, people , please respect their family wishes for privacy.George, we would have done it for you.
    George the United States Marine Corps salutes you sir.

  • Barney

    Go visit Mr. Grayson’s website…. http://www.mycongressmanisnuts.com/

  • me1ranger

    Desert Storm’s cessation of hostilities was a conditional cease-fire, asspony. Look it up. Saddam was given every oppotunity to comply with the conditions that he agreed to. Like most muslim “leaders” we know, they only worry about getting respect and saving face. After 17 wortless resolutions from the ‘effin U.N. and saddam pulling off the biggest theft in human history( oil for food) even the liberals started to get a clue. After 9/11 the Iragi’s were locking on to our fighters that were providing the U.N. santioned role of air-cap. These violations alone allowed us to resume fighting, but we didn’t. Bush allowed the U.N. to do the inspection dance for several months before living up to the ultimatum that had been expressed by the entire world. A conditional cease fire (think Korea) is not hard to understand, unless you’re a history re-writing liberal. A liberals mind can’t function under a deadline, their spines can’t back up their promises, and their hearts have no moral compass to guide them. That’s why they are always destined to fail….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Karen-Carver/1319507100 Karen Carver

    THIS GUY IS AN IDIOT. WE HAVE PEOPLE LIKE THIS IN THE WHITEHOUSE. WE ALL GOT TO CLEAN HOUSE COME NOVEMBER AND VOTE THESE CLOWNS OUT.

  • badr

    He looks like he has downs syndrome.

  • TCinAZ

    Fred Flinstone Grayson and his fellow libs need to convene a, uh, “think tank”, and decide..Do we want to Boycott “BIG Oil” and “BIG Illegal Immigration” States like Arizona? Or, do We Put Up Or STFU Wussies, just want to be fitted with the latest Haute Couture Rubber Room Fashion, by our pals in Paris?

    Please make up your Bi-Polar Schizophrenic minds, Lib Fascists. What’s it gonna Be? Or do ya’ just need some “hugs”? Because if you Do just need some hugs, we’ve got plenty of wildlife out here that would be happy to Oblige you Rats.

    “If encountered it should be left alone. A large percentage of envenomations occur when a snake is handled or abused.”

    Translation: Don’t Tread On Us, Or You’ll Be Sorry, since your Black Panther and Purple-Shirt Punks just ain’t gonna Cut it, Next Time. : )

    Ps. “Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand the way it works out here. You’re all just our guests. But you act like you’re at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain’t home. But that’s where we’re gonna send you if it harelips the governor. Thank you for your time.”

    A Classic! And it’s Never been More applicable than it is in today’s political climate “CHANGE”.

  • Fidoohki

    Bill Adkins says,

    The logic behind the “the liberal position against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was responsible for the disaster currently overtaking the Gulf of Mexico” is based on knowing what to do in shallow drilling in case of an accident. deep water drilling no one knew what would happen. Now before you start screaming about not drilling for oil at all let me say this. That is a delusion. We WILL need oil for an long long LONG
    time to come. The best we can do is control how much we use through solar, wind and possibly other
    methods not yet developed. ((Sorry but natural gas puts us in the same shape as drilling for oil does and I
    am VERY leary of nuclear while with the exception of alge based fuels, bio fuels should be for refocused on
    food production IMO.))

  • http://none pyrope

    Alan Grayson is a troubled man–methinks he’s lost his cabbage. I don’t know whether he needs Prozac, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, or other psychothropic meds, or whether he just ought to have good ol’ fashioned Thorzaine and some shock therapy.

  • jrcmi

    We’re STILL looking for Iraq’s imaginary “weapons of mass destruction” and the “uranium from Africa” which Bush used as an excuse to invade.

    He told his autobiographer he wanted to be a wartime president – before he was even “elected.”

    He has admitted to using torture, thus admitting to a war crime.

    It’s obvious which end of that “asspony” YOU are.

  • me1ranger

    The world watched the convoy of trucks leaving Irag and streaming into Syria, where were you? You idiot libs think weapons of mass destruction consist only of nukes…get a clue. N.B.C. stands for nuclear/ biological/ chemical. Where did you serve? Do you deny that he had either these actual weapons and advanced plans to develope or purchase more? Nice to see idiots like you keep your intellect sharp by rewriting history whenever it suits you. Next you’ll be telling us what a wonderfull president Clinton was…

  • me1ranger

    I notice you can’t dispute the fact that we ended the Gulf War with a conditional cease fire, thus allowing us to resume fighting when those conditions were violated. You want to deny the fact that Saddam was in violation? When Bush took office, Clinton warned him of Saddams program to develope nukes. It was our biggest threat, he said. So did his wife, sen. Kerry, Kennedy, Daschele..as well as the French, British and all the mid-east neighbors to Irag. Did you scrub that from your selective memory? And waterboarding is not torture. It’s not a war crime. If it was then why didn’t the dems prosecute when they took over in ’06? Because the knew about it and approved of it’s use..dumbass. In my training I went through much harsher treatment to prepare me for the possibility I would be captured. Besides, the U.N. feels that it is a violation of the rules of war for us to use drones to shoot missles into a country we have’nt declared war on. They got their panties bunched up over it as we speak. Is Barry a war criminal too..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Weapons of Mass Deception originated in the Bush White House. Saddam Hussein was contained that patrolling the no-fly zone was no more than a training exercise and the occasional martyr would fire off a missile and get his wish to be martyred. You can talk about what Clinton said all you want, but that Bush was operating on Clinton’s statements made in 1998 and intelligence from 1998 when he had so much intel contemporary to the time of invasion that said Saddam had nothing but fantasies, it’s a fucking embarrassment. The idiocy, the Blunder in Iraq that is George W(orst President in History) Bush’s legacy along with so much more damage he did to America, remains the worst strategic/military/diplomatic blunder in our history, even greater than that Bush accomplishment of giving bin Laden a 9 year head start in escaping justice. Heckuva effing job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ann-Heimstead-Lawler/100001026017256 Ann Heimstead Lawler

    Grayson is one painful S-O-B. Fellow Florida voters, please do all of us in America a huge favor and vote this disaster thug out of office.

  • jrcmi

    “The world watched the convoy of trucks leaving Irag and streaming into Syria”

    Carrying WHAT? Refugees? I’m sure Dumbya would’ve bombed Syria, too.

    On second thought; they don’t have oil.

    “You idiot libs think weapons of mass destruction consist only of nukes”

    “idiot libs” aren’t idiotic ENOUGH to take the dubious word of an oblivious, glory-seeking president over the word of arms inspectors – who were there – who say that whatever such weapons Saddam had were either neutralized or non-existent.

    A REAL idiot refuses to accept fact over ideology.

    “Do you deny that he had either these actual weapons and advanced plans to develope [sic] or purchase more?”

    Weps inspectors found scant evidence. He could “plan” all he wanted . . . but to what end? Saddam was a creep but he wasn’t a fool. Attacking the U.S. would’ve been suicidal under post – Desert Storm circumstances. How would such an attack profit him?

    Not only was Dumbya’s “proof” of Saddy’s Nigerian uranium purchase debunked, he and/or Darth found it necessary to “burn” a CIA agent in retribution. Mission accomplished.

    “Next you’ll be telling us what a wonderfull [sic] president Clinton was…”

    Wonderful? No. War criminal? Hell, no!

    “I notice you can’t dispute the fact that we ended the Gulf War with a conditional cease fire, thus allowing us to resume fighting when those conditions were violated. You want to deny the fact that Saddam was in violation?”

    You mean, when he flew BOTH planes on 9/11? The “violation” was created to justify W’s need for a war. Cheney was splitting up Iraq’s oil fields with Big Oil big shots within DAYS of entering the White House. HE needed a war, too.

    Clinton warned Bush about Iraq wanting nukes? Joe Wilson subsequently informed Bush that the uranium purchase claim was false . . or did you scrub THAT from YOUR ver-r-r-ry selective memory?

    How about Cheney blowing the cover of Wilson’s wife – a treasonous act?

    “And waterboarding is not torture. It’s not a war crime. If it was then why didn’t the dems prosecute when they took over in ‘06?”

    We have long recognized waterboarding as torture – and a crime – under international treaties.

    From: http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/02/18/opr ;

    “The Bush administration had a problem when it decided to embark upon a torture program. Torture, after all, violates both U.S. and international law. ”

    You might recall that there was a Republican administration in ’06. It wasn’t likely to prosecute itself . . . dumbass.

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