Florida Congressman Alan Grayson is very insulted in the name of the families of 9/11 victims. Except he’s not worrying so much about the “athletic center” replacing the old Burlington Coat Factor a few blocks from Ground Zero– he’s still angry that George W. Bush allowed the 9/11 attacks to take place.

Perhaps the longest-lasting consequence of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs‘ “professional left” comment may turn out to be the radical shift in Rep. Alan Grayson‘s rhetoric from associating Dick Cheney with Satan and attacking other conservatives to repeatedly calling for Gibbs’ resignation– which he again did on tonight’s Rick’s List.

“Congressman with Guts” Alan Grayson (D-FL) went for Press Secretary Robert Gibbs‘ throat in an appearance om MSNBC today, calling for him to be fired, and saying he belongs on Fox News. The tough talk was in response to Gibbs’ now-ubiquitous “professional left” comments, but Grayson, who refers to Gibbs as “Bozo the Spokesman,” also accuses Gibbs of doing a “miserable job” at highlighting the Obama administration’s accomplishments. As someone who listens to Gibbs do just that on a nearly daily basis, I have to disagree.

Controversial Rep. Alan Grayson is a little bit worried about his health. After a Media Research Center personality tweeted a request to his followers to punch Grayson in the face (“I just want to let them know that I punch back,” the Congressman replied then), his office received a legitimate death threat, which Grayson compared to some of the most high-profile assassinations in history.

It seems that every time Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson takes the podium in the House, he makes a headline. Today he spoke in favor of extending unemployment benefits, but instead of trying to persuade Republicans that this was the right course of action, he argued that the GOP is actively “trying to revive” the America of the Great Depression, and mocked them for their yachts and art collections.

Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson is mired in controversy yet again, this time facing the bizarre accusation that he is manipulating the Tea Party to split the Republican vote. Confronted by the question on today’s John King USA, Grayson first accused host Jessica Yellin of getting her facts wrong, then declared that Sarah Palin was a puppet under his control.

Controversial Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) wrapped up the festivities at the liberal America’s Future Now! conference with a sharply funny speech, after which I had the chance to interview him about his gutsy persona, the media’s coverage of the BP Oil Spill, the Democrat’s prospects in November, and his run-in with Fox News’ Griff Jenkins.

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?

A local Florida station has found a brilliant new way of using its resources for ratings: get a controversial figure of national stature from the area to agree to an interview and leak the most controversial snippet from it you can find to the internet. Lucky for WFTV-Channel 9, their local wonder, Congressman Alan Grayson, has developed quite a reputation for being a soundbite machine. He delivered, comparing his opponents in Congress to Al-Qaeda members in a teaser released by the network today.

Controversial Florida Congressman Alan Grayson delivered one of his signature posterboard slideshows on the House floor yesterday, though this time he didn’t accuse the Republicans of wanting anyone to die. Instead, he discussed auditing the Federal Reserve, on which he is negotiating for bipartisan legislation with libertarian Rep. Ron Paul. And yesterday, he was the bearer of good news to Americans: congratulations, you now own the Red Roof Inn!

For a show hosted by one of the most liberal hosts on TV, last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher was pretty racially charged. Discussing the new Arizona immigration law and relating it somehow with an incident on Family Feud where a contestant claimed Ellen Degeneres hated America, Bill Maher concluded that “the problem in this country is older white people.” He didn’t meet much opposition from his panel.

Alan Grayson‘s rapid tailspin into the abyss of political insanity is fantastic, entertaining, and now nearly complete. The incorrigible Florida Congressman is doing little to keep himself in office, but he sure is making a great bid to become the left’s Andrew Breitbart by starring in a messy YouTube video showing him crashing a local Republican meeting to accuse them of espionage. The video speaks for itself.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), who first made waves with his bid to become the go-to Democratic rabble-rouser during last summer’s pitched health care battle, appeared on Countdown last night to give anti-reform Florida urologist Jack Cassell what for. While I don’t doubt that Grayson would much rather see Cassell make his way through the penal system, rather than the penile system, his low-energy delivery produced a somewhat weak stream of invective.

Big Government– where else?– operative Jason Mattera dug through the original House health care bill from November to find an obscure gem allocating tax dollars to “treating ‘perpetrators of child sexual abuse who are Indian or members of an Indian household.’” Outraged that the health care bill would specifically cover child molesters, he went to seek answers from Congress’ most rational and polite liberal member: Alan Grayson.

Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson is in the middle of what seems to be a WWE-officiated smack-talk battle with former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Now Grayson, never one to pull punches, added some choice words for the potential presidential candidate on CNN tonight, saying she is just “a reality show personality…that’s where all of this is heading, she just wants to make money.” And then some more mean stuff!

To most people that have ever spent more than ten minutes of their lifetime’s exposed to professional politicians, the fact that they will use anything and everything to claw their way into the national spotlight comes as no shock. To Politico‘s Jonathan Martin, it’s an unsettling new side effect of the national conversation in health care reform.

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson wonders if Dick Cheney collaborates with Satan and throws around the word “Holocaust” when discussing the other side’s health care plans. Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has Super Bowls of Freedom and holds Prayercasts to stop the health care bill.

So when they faced off on Larry King Live last night, why was it so…calm?

Senator Jim Bunning (R-Ky), coiner of awesome new GOP slogans, pulled a pretty weak move this morning when he fled for the elevators to avoid talking to ABC News cameras. According to Jonathan Karl and producer Z. Byron Wolf, Bunning also flipped them the bird before the cameras were rolling.

Still, I like to believe that what unites us is greater than what divides us. To that end, I’d like to point out that, at least when it comes to fleeing reporters, Congress has managed some bipartisan action.

Senator Alan Grayson continued to play the part last night while guesting on The Ed Show. What part, you ask? Well, for fans of his on the left, he’s a hero for calling out conservative leadership (in particularly Vice President Dick Cheney.) For his detractors on the right, he’s a villain for coarsening the discussion and over-the-top rhertoric — like wondering aloud if Satan himself is writing the introduction to Cheney’s coming memoir. Video after the jump:

We all know the stars of the House of Representatives – Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, John Boehner.

But every few weeks one of the 435 other congressmen and congresswomen bubble up and into the media spotlight – and now it’s Rep. Anh Joseph Cao‘s turn.

Robert Gibbs’ answer to David Corn of Mother Jones’ last question at Friday’s briefing is getting considerable attention from the right. Corn asked Gibbs about House Republican leader John Boehner’s declaration that the House health care bill was the “greatest threat to freedom” he’s ever seen. Gibbs’ response was worth a slight chuckle, but they ignore his larger point.

The balance for Howard Kurtz between his column at the Washington Post and his show at CNN was on display and in question this weekend.

While Kurtz can at times appear like an ombudsman on his Reliable Sources Sunday show, the Washington Post‘s ombudsman was raising the ‘conflict of interest’ question.

Yesterday, Mediaite offered a sneak peek at Fox News’ Griff Jenkins ambushing controversial Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fl) outside his office. The first thing I thought when I saw this was that Grayson’s repeated demands that Jenkins make an appointment constituted some particularly weak sauce. On last night’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly and Jenkins called Grayson out for hiding behind his press flack, and I couldn’t agree more.

While direct comparisons between Rep. Alan Grayson’s (D-FL) now-infamous “Die Quickly!” screed and Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” don’t hold much water, the two incidents do share one thing in common. They have both given new meaning to the phrase “money quote” – both have used their instant notoriety to raise campaign funds.

An unknown Democratic Congressman from Florida made his celebrity debut on the House floor and in front of CSPAN cameras this week, and since then it’s become the sound bite everyone’s discussing (video after the jump). Representative Alan Grayson of the ninth district has now reached political celebrity because of his sarcastic rant describing the Republican health care plan, which went a little like this: