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Alan Grayson Compares Rep. Paul Ryan And The GOP To OJ Simpson: ‘They’re The Real Killers’

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The rise of Occupy Wall Street and the topic of income inequality in the media has giving a bit of a second wind to the currently stalled career of former Congressman Alan Grayson, and he has returned to the spotlight with gusto. The Congressman visited the Ed Show to give his take on how much he opposes divisive politics, and in doing so compared the complaints of such division from Rep. Paul Ryan to OJ Simpson pretending someone else was responsible for the murders he was accused of.

RELATED: Alan Grayson Defends Occupy Wall Street On Rachel Maddow: ‘They’re Doing The One Last Human Thing Left’

Talking to host Ed Schultz, Grayson responded to comments by Rep. Ryan that the President was encouraging divisiveness in politics. “For Paul Ryan or any Republican to talk about the President inciting the politics of division is much like OJ Simpson saying he’s going to devote his life to finding the real killer– they’re the real killers!” he exclaimed. He then cited several examples of what he thought was partisan politics at play, from Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” to an insistence, he claimed, of dividing Americans along cultural lines. “Give me a break,” he concluded.

RELATED: Alan Grayson Gets Standing Ovation While Bill Maher Panel Mocks Occupy Wall Street ‘Hippies’

Schultz then turned to comments by Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Senate candidate for the Democratic Party, that no one in capitalism gets rich without the government. Rep. Ryan considered the comments extreme and, of course, Grayson found his response silly. To Grayson, it ignored “a tremendous growth in the wealth of the wealthy and the poverty of the poor” which was the problem the Occupy Wall Street movement seemed most concerned by. This meant a choice between “class warfare and class surrender,” of which Grayson chose the former.

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  • Anonymous

    We have an arrogant , incompetent fool as President right now , and a brilliant , serious man in the bull pen . Paul Ryan will likely be president one day , just hope it’s not too late .

    Obama ? ” He doesn’t seem to be as worried about his country’s continuance as his own. He’s out campaigning and talking of our problems, but he seems oddly oblivious to or detached from America’s deeper fears. And so he feels free to exploit divisions. It’s all the rich versus the rest, and there are a lot more of the latter.

    Which gets us to Rep. Paul Ryan. Mr. Ryan receives much praise, but I don’t think his role in the current moment has been fully recognized. He is doing something unique in national politics. He thinks. He studies. He reads. Then he comes forward to speak, calmly and at some length, about what he believes to be true. He defines a problem and offers solutions, often providing the intellectual and philosophical rationale behind them. Conservatives naturally like him—they agree with him—but liberals and journalists inclined to disagree with him take him seriously and treat him with respect.

    This week he spoke on “The American Idea” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. He scored the president as too small for the moment, as “petty” in his arguments and avoidant of the decisions entailed in leadership. At times like this, he said, “the temptation to exploit fear and envy returns.” Politicians divide in order to “evade responsibility for their failures” and to advance their interests.

    The president, he said, has made a shift in his appeal to the electorate. “Instead of appealing to the hope and optimism that were hallmarks of his first campaign, he has launched his second campaign by preying on the emotions of fear, envy and resentment.”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203554104577002262150454258.html

  • Anonymous

    By the way , Grayson , if they’ll talk to you , poll the members of the CBC . I guarantee that a majority of them think O.J.Simpson was framed . And a huge chunk of Dems think that also .

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4OJ2F7ADXSD7OMEUUEQDQDZ2Y Dustin Baker

    I’m glad to see Jon Stewart’s “Restoring Sanity” rally has had such a profound impact on MSNBC and liberals in general.  I’m sure Stewart will let this slide by along with MSNBC’s “Herman Cain is a black man who knows his place” commentary.

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    Hey America! Your President has something to tell you!

    “You do not have an imagination!”
    “You are no longer a Christian Nation!”
    “You are fearful and ignorant!”

    Jimmy Cawta is standing back saying, golly gee, I thought I was bad.

  • Texan

    12 more Americans killed in Afghanistan. Ed? One Fry Short Grayson? Maddow? What say you?

  • ganymede

    Lord knows what it’s going to take before rightwingers get the message: income inequality is what’s doing us in, and it obviously doesn’t have to be this way. We’re going down faster than Rome because of the corruption of a small number of extremely wealthy people and their lackeys. Are you hardcore rightwingers going to remain lackeys, or, are you going to join the 99% of us who want serious reform of our financial and tax systems, like, say, the reinstitution of the Glass-Stegall Act, or an increase of the tax rate to what it was during our years of great prosperity, 1950-1970. Yes, the government needs a lot of changes as well, but the government is now, basically a subsidiary of Wall St.

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    By the way, my earlier comment had nothing to do with the article. Why you might ask? It’s Grayson, what else has to be said? Oh, I could post this-http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/47605/

    It has a mention about Grayson in it.

    By the way, Grayson has a new site set up for donations. Hehehehehehehe, like anyone is going to vote that idiot back into any office.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Ah Tiny eddie putz shares more of his vast knowledge of hearsay, obfuscations, and inane patter.

     

  • Rufus Danegro

    Yawn…

  • Anonymous

    Frances I’M BOYCOTTING ALL OF YOUR ARTICLES AND CALLING ON MY FELLOW AMERICANS TO DO THE SAME.  Your attempt to delegitimze and smear Michael Moore by labeling him a communist in order to feed red meat to the masses needs to be shunned by decent honest citizens of the USA. You need to be starved of traffic or left to sit within a populist that is willing to support this sort of “journalism”.

    IT FALLS UNDER THE HEADING OF PROPAGANDA!

  • Anonymous

    Grayson is absolutely right.  Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress most of the way to the downfall.  Republicans waged the unfunded wars.  Republicans decreased taxes on billionaires. Republicans looked the other way as tainted derivatives infected the financial system.

    Republicans took charge of government and destroyed our country.  That’s what happened.  The facts are there for all to see.  Think for yourselves.

    As for you morons who still don’t know it, Barney Frank was in the minority from 1995 until 2007.  The reason you think Barney Frank destroyed the economy is because you are a moron.  Republicans can train morons to believe ANYTHING.

  • Michelle

    Stop your whining, libbie!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Schellenberg/100000553990876 Kevin Schellenberg

    “These two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis.” – Barney Frank

  • Anonymous

    I know. You’ve been convinced that Barney Frank destroyed the economy by saying things. You’re as dumb as they come. I’m not calling you names; I’m just letting you know how dumb you are.

  • Anonymous

    Grayson is a out of work ex public servant b lister.  No one cares what this clown has to say.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Schellenberg/100000553990876 Kevin Schellenberg

    The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and “redlining” because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Schellenberg/100000553990876 Kevin Schellenberg

    Oh Grayson doesn’t need to work. He’s worth 31 million dollars.

    http://www.rollcall.com/features/Guide-to-Congress_2010/guide/-49892-1.html

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    Please boycott all the articles. Thanks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ram-Kumar/1150996573 Ram Kumar

    I am an independent but to absolve Barney Frank of any wrong is ridiculous. Barney Frank not only spoke but promoted these policies encouraging sub-prime loans. And he said this, when was the chairman of the Financial Services committee. He actively encouraged the policies which forced banks to give these loans.

    Fact: Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are highly responsible among others (Wall Street, Federal Reserve, Treasury, Republicans, Regulators). These two are the senior members in Congress in charge of their committees.

    Just jumping up and down and regurgitating idiotic Bill Maher talking points are crazy. Dont be bullheaded psychophant, the very thing you accuse the Republicans of.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_C2RSOPJFRLXKBHZIORDCQ75VIA nayrue

    Pmsnbc, where all good loonies go to die.

  • OSux

    GOP may be like OJ Simpson but dumbocrats are like Adolf Hitler.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ram-Kumar/1150996573 Ram Kumar

    And for you moron, Bush tax cuts were for everyone, not billionaires alone. Republicans AND Democrats destroyed the economy not just with wars, but with No Child Left Behind, Prescription drug program, Farm subsidies. The Democrats were complicit in all of these. Dont have this fantasy that Republicans good, Democrats bad ideal.

  • Irish189

    That simpson comment seems like pretty precious comedic gold that i would be surprised if it didn’t show up on the daily show or colbert report next week, course that depends what happens between now and monday……………

  • Anonymous

    Bush and the Republicans did that. The Democrats had no power.

    The economy is not a science. You have to fix it as you go along. Republicans decided not to fix it. Republicans decided to destroy our economy.

  • OSux

    PMSNBC, where the viewers watch during their time of the month.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Oh the irony!

  • Anonymous

    Some Democrats went along with the Republican majority, but it was still a Republican majority. The Republican Party destroyed our country.

  • Anonymous

    You seriously have a disconnect with reality.  I hope you have a prescription for that otherwise you may be living an awkward life, in which case I feel sorry for you.

  • Sean

    You lost me at Paul Ryan being a “brilliant, serious man.”

  • Anonymous

    When Alan Grayson was in Congress, he was ranked as one its richest members (#12 to be precise).  Did I miss the story where he gave all his money away?

    http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2009/09/report-grayson-is-12th-richest-lawmaker.html

  • Anonymous

    You are completely wrong. The majority party controls the committees. With the exception of about a year and a half (plus a couple weeks) on the Senate side, Republicans controlled the Senate, the House, and the White House from 2001 until 2007. And Republicans controlled both houses (again noting the exceptions) from 1995 until 2007. That’s why our country is in the crapper.

    Please try to understand that Republicans have rewritten history for you. You have been systematically trained to lie to in support of failure. Try to think for yourself. You don’t have to be a simple Republican parrot for the rest of your life.

  • Anonymous

    All I’m doing is posting facts. As a Republican, you have been systematically trained to resist facts, as you’ve just proven.

  • Anonymous

    Given the lowest-of-the-low, slime-beneath-the-slime, crud-at-the-bottom-of-the-barrel nature of sergeant “I know nothing, NOTHING!” schultz, he has to try really, really hard to find “guests” who are even lower than he on the evolutionary scale. Of the very few in that category, grayson, aka “The Most Irresponsible, Hyper-partisan, Uncouth, Unhelpful, Anti-progress, Obstructionist, Head-up-the-butt, Thrown-Out-of- Congress Clown”, probably leads the list.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    Gloves, If it was not for you I wouldn’t know hate.

  • Bware

    LMAO

    You have got to love how Grayson causes the teabaggers panties to get in a twist!

  • MontyPyth0n

    Go ahead and boycott his articles. That will teach him!

    psst…by the way…. Moore is a communist…..

    Definition of Communism

    1.
    a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
    2.a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

    Based on Moore’s documentary’s, interviews, and policies he supports, he seems to fit that mold.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    HINT.. if you dont want your few and far between minority friends to think you are racist, the next time you think of saying the name of a man who “got away with murder” try looking at the long LONG list of famous WHITE celebrities and singing their names and fame before jumping on OJ.. Im just saying… To gravitate towards the lone famous black murderer is kind of, well, a sign of your racial insecurity. IF this post makes you get your panties in a bunch, take your time and think of the very very famous men, some famous simply because they got away with murder, who are not OJ.. thats all.

  • http://www.savagevenus.net Flitzy

    Dear Alan Grayson: As a liberal, I’d appreciate it if you can please leave the foolishness and wingnuttery to the Republicans. :

  • Anonymous

    I appreciate your opinion but its just that – opinion.  Unfortunately, no, stating the fact that the top 1% is engorged while the rest of us scramble unsuccessfully to keep up is not saying the Government owns profit. 

    Lets look at gas tax – the poor pay the same as the rich for that yet the roads only serve the poor when they drive to the check cashing place to get a Payday loan so they can eat.  The rich pay exactly the same rate and amount as the poor here.  Corporations, unless they are idiots, factor the tax into their compensation so they make a profit.  Those regressive gas taxes pay for the roads that move people, and materials for industry.

    Come on, give me a break on Paul as a ‘thinker’  I think he is a shill…

  • OSux

    You have to laugh at the blowjobbers like Bware who gets a hard on when he sees Grayson.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ram-Kumar/1150996573 Ram Kumar

    Maybe you didnt read my post and I repeat. I am independent.

    Anyway, I know Dems were in charge only from Jan 2007 and Barney Frank and Dodd were in charge on their committees from then on. But the fact is: Barney did actively encourage and promote these loans and he and Dodd worked to exclude Freddie and Fannie from regulations.

    I said, Do not absolve him of his mistakes. He was wrong and complicit. As were the Republicans who were in charge.

    Now, if some Republican (tea partier or otherwise) said Bush was not at fault and argued that ONLY the DEMS were wrong, I would argue exactly your point. I am arguing the opposite with you only because you took a very parochial view (Its all REPUB’s fault).

    Bush has to take a lot of blame for the economy and some of it Dems. Barney’s problem is that he repeatedly argued in favour of Freddie and Fannie and sub-prime loans and bullied and ridiculed those who spoke against it. Now he comes and blames everyone else and has not once admitted that he read the situation wrong. Thats the rap against him (thats why he gets more trouble than other Dems who did support the same policies).

  • Bware

    ZZZzzzzzzzzzz

  • Anonymous

    You were COMPLETELY wrong because you have allowed the Republicans to rewrite your history.

    As I explained, Democrats did not control the committees. They controlled just about nothing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Randal/100000535186834 James Randal

    Alan Grayson: The last real liberal left on the planet.

  • proug2teabagu

    No use trying to talk sense to Kim Jong Trevor. He is a Berkley washout who stays in his mom’s basement smoking pot all day.

  • force_recon

     Korean Trevor….You and Alan Grayson….TWO IDIOTS!

  • Anonymous

    They will never admit it, ganymede. Income inequality is what precipitated the original Great Depression.

    What the right wing and their supporters either refuse to admit or want to ignore is that the only way to have a substainable country is to have a broad middle class and that means that there has to be some redistribution of wealth unless we want our country to look like Hati.

  • Anonymous

    Barney Frank and Chris Dodd held guns to the collective head of the banking industry? LOL.

    Maybe you should blame Alan Greenspan because he created the housing bubble by lowering interest rates so low to reverse the recession that he caused so Gore would lose in 2000.

  • Anonymous

    Ram, the problem with the Bush tax cuts is that the Republicans continue to claim even though the evidence squarely contridicts it that we much continue the Bush tax cuts because the job creators need them so they will hire more Americans and therefore decrease unemployment and boost the economy.

    Even after 11 years of tax cuts for the top 2% the unemployment rate is what? 9.2%. One would think that the Republicans would stop propagating this theory.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    Pauly boy cannot even face his constituents anymore. Pathetic little Putz.

  • Anonymous

    Actually…many blacks know/believe that OJ was guilty for those double murders. Blacks celebrated because for once, white America got to experience injustice – something that is endemic within the black community in the American justice system. Here is a black guy who for once used the system to his advantage. Also…a high profile black lawyer and lawyers were behind Simpson’s acquittal. Another moment of pride. Try not to make yourself look so dumb next time when commenting on racial dynamics in this country..

  • Anonymous

    Fact: it was not Barney Frank who created the mortgage backed security, it was not Barney Frank who gave these Securties AAA ratings, It was not Barney Frank who placed bets against the products they were selling knowing they were shit in the first place.

  • Anonymous

    When has Moore ever said the the state (social organization) should own all property?

  • Anonymous

    I think they would say Leave now!

  • Anonymous

    If you poll the tea bagger caucus, the majority would think Saddam was involved in 9/11.

  • Anonymous

    Newt Gingrich has been married three times. Did I miss the story were he dropped all the “we must protect marriage” talk.

  • Anonymous

    Grayson  is scary nuts!!!!!!!

  • Tim Tebow

    There are two truths: we are individuals AND we are members of a wider group. The right cannot stomach the later truth because they believe it undermines the first.

    The Europeans approved a program for Greece the other day–what happened? Markets around the world responded positively. If Greece was truly an individual, or Europe for that matter, why would it matter if either collapsed? Why not let some “creative destruction” loose on the Continent? Is it because Europeans are just not quite as stupid as many of us over here? Yep…

    Oh…and btw, “creative destruction” is always for the “other guy,” not me. When the $hit hits the fan for folks like pablo, gloves, or texan, they’ll be right there waiting for a handout. Never fails…Hate the government? Get off this site, A$$hole, because WE THE PEOPLE MADE THE INTERNET VIA GOVERNMENT. Nothing to say to this, I’m sure…

    The GOP’s radical individualism says that we are single and isolated folks freely and independently working towards our own goals–NOBODY can change, effect, alter, or hinder our outcomes. We are free and independent of everyone else. And there is no such thing as racism or discrimination.

    But if Greece (Lehman Bros?) fails, we all–to some degree–fail. We fail because the world is inherently social in nature–we all rely on each other for security, health and general welfare, and commercial exchange. To fix problems, we must do it TOGETHER.To suggest that we are not social reveals an arrogance and stupidity that coincide in that devoutly American pleasure called greed.

    If we admit that we are social, then we must likely submit to some authority–the radical individual submits to NOBODY. This is our “culture” in this country: “We’ve done everything without anybody’s help!” Nevermind: Louis and Clark (a government PROGRAM), the 19th Ammendment granting folks like Michelle and the toilet in WI the RIGHT to vote (talk about the NANNY STATE!), or even DARPA (another GOVERNMENT PROGAM that you dip$hits would’ve cut that resulted in this very thing called the internet).  

    Greed and stupidity: brought to you by YOUR GOP.

  • Anonymous

    lol theres more conservative butthurt here than a field trip with larry craig, ted haggard, and mark foley.

  • Anonymous

    I know. The truth hurts don’t it?

    Paul Ryan wins in a liberal district. That must just get you. :)

  • Anonymous

    Those darn 1%ers…..

  • Lscout09

     Paul Ryan = Eddie Munster.

  • Sean68

    I wonder why no enterprising journalist has explored Obama’s view of the OJ case. Perhaps Remnick or Alter did–well, of course, neither of those two servants would have touched this question. But it is an interesting question: What America’s first black President’s thoughts were on one of the racially defining moments of the last half century.

    Yet no one has enquired. A real mystery.

  • DEFENDER-90

    And the last Neanderthal.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Wing nut revisionist nonsense.

    The Simpson verdict was a consequence of jury nullification, produced from decades of racist abuse and terror at the hands of the autonomous LAPD, plus the hubris in the LA DA Gil Garcetti in moving the trial from Santa Monica where the crimes were committed into LA proper where just that sort of jury nullification was most likely to occur. The verdict was decried on a totally bipartisan basis, with the difference being that liberals, who tend overwhelmingly to vote D, at least understood the underlying causes of that verdict even as they decried it, while conservatives, who tend almost as overwhelmingly to vote R, have tried to dismiss the context underlying the verdict and construct a narrative around it to shift the accusation of racism so often labelled at neggreen Rs in this case to the jury being motivated by black racism. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    But Cain IS just such man. That’s what’s so confusing to Rs: they have this Amos of Amos and Andy running in their presidential primary and can’t understand why Ds are calling him Amos, when it’s not Ds so much as it’s black Americans, most of whom happen to vote D.

    Watch for a survey that examines this phenomenon of black Americans being the first to decry Cain as Amos or Uncle Tom or Steppin Fetchit.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    They’ve been saying so all along, certainly since bin Laden was assassinated. We’re only there due to pressure from both the U.S. armed forces generals, present and past, including in particular Petraeus, and the fears of European allies.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I should admit there is in fact one ‘foreign policy intellectual’ argument for staying the course in Afghanistan: because the next door country is the craziest country in the world and has this massive stockpile of nukes.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Thanks for at least posting your link in a way that makes it obvious that it’s to Bircher Beck, because that spares us the curiosity as to whether anything worthwhile is there.

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    You are not a liberal. Liberal from the classical sense is NOT statism. I wish you leftists/statists would leave that perfectly fine adjective alone. Don’t you have enough adjectives to describe yourselves, like statist, fascist, communist, socialist, etc?

  • SayyyyyWhat

    Alan Grayson, the biggest a*hole on the planet. And the ugliest as well. He needs to get that silly eyebrow of his fixed. It makes him look goofy as hell. Course he is goofy as hell but, still, fix the goofy eyebrow.

    Oh and btw, Alan, you were voted the hell out of office so nobody cares what you think, moron.

  • Ark

    Alan Grayson kicks right-wing assclown butt. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/mattgordonmd matt gordon

    Good point in re: Cain. For a substantive yet humorous black pundit-writer’s views of Cain, I recommend reading some of Chauncey deVega’s pieces. Cain is clever, he knows how to play to an audience.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mattgordonmd matt gordon

    Does it strike anyone else as crazy that the overwhelming majority of rabid rightwingers cheer for policies and plans that benefit the One-Percent yet they are clearly not among the One-Percent? I think it’s because many are just low-information voters who are stirred by a few of the core issues: guns, god, abortion. Every election cycle the repubs manage to have a crisis with The Gays, or something that hits the emotion/social buttons but isn’t ever as urgent as other issues  facing the country at any given time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ram-Kumar/1150996573 Ram Kumar

    1) I dont believe that raising taxes to Clinton’s era will cause any problems whatsoever and the rich will not suffer one bit. Nor does it have any impact in hiring.
    2) Bush tax cuts did have a positive effect in having a 52-month period of uninterrupted job growth. Tax revenues also increased between 2004-06.
    3) If Bush didnt start the Iraq war and had limited the Afghan operation to removing Al Qaeda, he could have saved one trillion dollars. If he hadnt passed Medicare part D and some useless spending programs (No-Child-left-behind, homeland security bloats, farm subsidies etc), the fiscal situation would have been much better.
    4) Even after all that, in 2006, the deficit was 164 billion, which was roughly the same as in 1996, during Clinton’s time.
    5) So if Bush hadnt spent so much, pressure wouldnt have been put on the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates so low to accommodate will borrowing and spending, which ultimately caused the speculative bubble and Wall Street excesses. So almost every problem came from Bush spending recklessly.

  • shonangreg

    Well, he is obviously advocating for a higher tax rate for his class, so what is your point? It is not like he is going to escape that which he advocates.

    OTOH, if you just want to avoid thinking by engaging in ad hominem attacks, mission accomplished, eh?

  • MontyPyth0n

    Moore supports communist policies. He believes that the wealth of a nation belongs to the community (or state) and he also believes that it is the governments role to distribute that wealth to its citizens.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5EMzRUj55g

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRRe0EFdNpI

  • Anonymous

    Since when is the Ed Show the “spotlight”?  And, how come you didn’t mention that Alan is a 1%er?

  • proug2teabagu

    Just like he did in the election!

  • proug2teabagu

    Only in your mind selffisster.

  • MontyPyth0n

    we support policies and plans that benefit the 1% because we ourselves aspire to that level of success. We understand the hard work that it takes to get there and do not want to be punished when we get there.

    Also, if we get rid of “income inequality” will there not be a top 1%? Will there not be a bottom 20%? The plans that the left support to accomplish income equality will do nothing to change this, other than the top 1% will become the very people who will tell us how to live, how much we can earn, what property we are allowed to keep. Boy that sounds awesome!

  • MontyPyth0n

    Since Obama knows how to play to an audience does that make him Amos as well? How racist is the left to claim that people only like Cain because he is black. Since he is black, can he not have his own views? can they not differ from yours?

    The left claims that we do not like Obama on the sole fact that he is Black. We rebut by saying we do not like his policies.

    The left claims we only like Herman Cain since he is black and it allows us to hide our racism. (essentially calling us racists). Keep in mind that Cain’s policies are fairly opposite of Obama’s.

    So in summary, the right has proven that as long as you are putting forward policies we agree with, we don’t care what color your skin is, and the left has proven they can see past the color of someone’s skin.

    Who is the racist party here?

  • Yukon Jack

    Barack 0bama = Steve Urckel

  • George Bush

    OMG…it doesnt go back to any administration, it goes back to gerneral math. When you lose 15 million jobs you lose 15 million morgages.

  • George Bush

    OMG…you sound like a total dork…dont post shit man…geez golly…just dont. Stop just refrain.

  • Yukon Jack

    Income inequality is caused by brain inequality, work inequality, education inequality, ambition inequality, honesty inequality, morals inequality and inequality in respect for self and others.

    In addition to unions who priced themselves into joblessness, overestimated their own importance by demanding and getting wages multiple times worth their value of work performed. Unions whose bosses live in splendor while the members are forced to give up their dues so that the bosses can buy and bribe politicians who are every bit as corrupt and crooked as the union bosses. Unions who make it impossible for employers to fire employees who are a drain on productivity. Unions whose bosses are too cowardly to allow their members to have a secret vote, on threat of broken limbs.

    I guess when you decry the “extremely wealthy” people you include Richard Trumka and Leo Girard, just to name a couple of the most disgusting thugs.

    I suppose when you want “serious reform” you would support to cheerfully rob the creators of wealth, to give the fruits of their brain, education and hard work to the loud slackers.

    I suppose you include Steve Jobs and Bill Gates among those fat cats whose wealth should be confiscated, while you are happily using the results of their ingenuity.

    You hardcore left-wingers demand equal outcome, but Heaven forbid, NEVER equal effort and equal tax rate for everyone.  

  • Yukon Jack

    The result of the 2010 election indicates that Grayson is a loser.

    The fact that he pops up again and again on left-wing TV shows that are hosted by even bigger losers proves that he is a POOR LOSER.

  • Yukon Jack

    Trevor Mentally-Il has spoken!!!

  • Agfa_10

    an idea for MSNBC for a new “reality show”, THE LOSERS OF TODAY, THE LEADERS OF TOMORROW, after all they have an UNLIMITED pool of characters such as Michael Moore, Alan Grayson, Goldi Taylor, Sarah Silverman and so many more, in addition, if they run out of contestants,they have proven characters who can appear such as Lawrence O’donnel, Jo Scarborough and the rest of their line up of personalities.
    A show like that may bring them back the viewership they seek and will turn a FAILING network into a successful one, they will  also save money, because these losers donot ask for money to display their stupidity, they do it all for free

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Breaking News: Alan Grayson still sucks at life!

    And it’s also amusing to see one of the richest Congressman — well, former Congressman because Orlando hates him — try to associate himself with OWS. I love watching all these Progressive Socialists so willingly drink down that poison.

  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark H

    Typical Liberal Humor…..For christ sake grow up!
    Grayson is a COMPLETELY irrelevant HACK

  • Anonymous

    Paul Ryan doesn’t look like Eddie Munster so unless you think that Ryan contains some other qualities of Munster, I have not a clue what you’re referring to.

  • Anonymous

    well, he pretty well painted an accurate caricature  of the idiot.  He talks smack with marbles in his mouth.  

    is that more to your liking? lol

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Comparing the Republicons to O.J. Simpson is an insult to O.J. Simpson!!

  • proug2teabagu

    Kinda like comparing you to a heaping bowel movement!

  • proug2teabagu

    Kinda like comparing you to a heaping bowel movement!

  • MontyPyth0n

    CAN’T see past skin color. Damned typo!

  • Indigo710

    Conjecture on your part.

  • Indigo710

    Don’t leave out Franklin Raines or Johnson.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you come out of the closet and let your feminine side have a run at things?

  • Anonymous

     Grayson is a rabble rousing pit bull with very nasty disgusting instincts; a profligate liar and extremely unattractive human being. Only the Democratic party could spawn such a creature; like another one named Weiner form N.Y., Dean from Vermont, etc.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Or comparing you to the wart on your mother’s ass would be an insult to the wart!!

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    It was the GLOAT FEST clip, where Beck made fun of all the Democrats that got their arses handed to them in the last election. GLOAT FEST 2012 will make that one look tame in comparison.

  • Fred

    Paul ryan in one pinky is more of a president than this idiot in the white house right now.  And anyone who is still watching the Ed Shultz show is a moron.  The dude is wackier than Rush limbaugh

  • AliveStillkickin

    I hope that grossly-lame response took less than one of your  brain cells or you are certifiably brain dead.

  • AliveStillkickin

    Alan Grayson on Ed Schultz’s Show…..Bet that topped the ratings….LOL!!! 

  • AliveStillkickin

    Grayson has plenty of time on his hands to come up with these “rocks in a goldmine” comments since he got SMASHED by the tea party in 2010.
    He is irrelevant and just another unemployed basement liberal

  • Anonymous

    Having trouble locating your tiny little scrotum, Tough Guy???

  • Anonymous

    Alan Grayson is just one more Democrat who keeps on giving.  He and Michael Moore are kindred spirits.  Next to them, the most partisan Republican seems the voice of reason.

  • Anonymous

    Yes I guess you are right, the Tea Bag movement did not start until the trader Rick got so upset that there was talk of bailing out home owners with under water mortgages ( bailing out the banks was ok ) worries about debt and deficient were not much of a concern during the Bush years and the invasion of Iraq.

    I re- phrase; If you poll the tea bagger caucus, the majority would think Obama raised their taxes.

  • Dflojak

    Just watch this irrelevant pos Grayson, plenty of hate there David. By the way, Frances, when you say grayson returned with Gusto, dude, he was on the Ed show. Nobody watching means no gusto. Please don’t blow any smoke up this dufusses ass, he will disappear again shortly if he only spends time on msnbc, which is where he was and someone you found him. 15 minutes, up.

  • Dflojak

    wow, this is great. If you’re black, vote for the black president as stated by a black radio commentator. O J acquitted, blacks applaud because a black man got away with murdering a white woman. Where’s the racist outrage over statement like this. what an asshole, keep pushing the envelope of racism and we’ll be back fighting another war, right here in america. Great article in Sundays parade magazine. Talks about a black child that lived in the projects, and he’s gotten out and done well. Why. Because everyone, including his drug dealing parents, let him hang out for as long as he desired at 11 years old, beggin for money on a street corner, until a white woman took him to lunch. She basically adopted him, and nobody in the black community noticed he was gone. Typical.

  • Dflojak

    bye bye kitty, gonna miss your stupid ass.

  • Anonymous

    Listen…you numskull, it’s great what that white woman did. I applaud, I congratulate, but, there are millions of other white women who choose NOT to do the same and travel all the way to Russia and China to adopt non-American babies instead of adopting black American babies. Do not get mad at me for reporting the world as it is, and not as you want it to be. I didn’t create America’s race problem. Typical.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    Actually it says he is a good Republican. That he, like most Republicans can Flip-Flop on any issue and tell any group they address anything the group wants to hear. It worked for Brown in Massachusetts as it did for Romney. Gingrich is unabashedly hypocritical. He’ll Flip-Flop on cosecutive days and think nothing of it. It is simple Republicans are hypocrites and will say anything that is politically expedient at anytime, to try and get elected.

  • http://twitter.com/msnurse Mary Williams

    Grayson is a psycho who should be in a mental health facility getting a dose of saneness—but then he’s a liberal so that would be kinda difficult!!!

  • Anonymous

    Oh Tina_Tampon!

    Since when did ratings numbers equate quality programming? And while Mr. Grayson might be more financially fortunate that many us he’s certainly not sitting in his ivory tower dreaming up ways to screw the rest of us out of our jobs and pensions. He’s working to bring back the balance to a very broken system. What a cad!

  • Anonymous

    Reading your hysterical reply makes me 100% certain that Grayson is on the right path!

  • Anonymous

    Inequality in America is more pronounced today than ever before. All politics is national in scope this year and next year will get worse. The building influence of the confrontational TEA party and it’s influence on the GOP has allowed this fringe elite few dominate local politics and some state Houses. The election of local persons into offices of local and state control over social programs, allows an elite few to dominate others with their religious beliefs or narrow standards. Iowa, as an example, is dominated by Evangelicals who force those of another religions to adhere to the strict discipline of Evangelicals. The strict guidelines of the TEA party start with wanting government out of our everyday lives, yet forcing their personal and religious beliefs and ideals on others. Who made them Judge, jury and executors in the lives of everyone else? Controls of social programs benefiting those with less means in the hands of conservative evangelical elites is like a son living in mom and dad’s house after reaching voting age and having no say in their lives. The effects of constriction on jobs in America is directly attributed to the housing bubble and loosening of restraints on financial institutions.

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