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Eric Bolling To Alan Grayson: It’s “Like I’m Talking To A Medicated Person”

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Last night on Fox Business, Rep. Alan Grayson visited Eric Bolling on Follow the Money, where the two would participate in one of the most awkward and least informative interviews this side of Joaquin Phoenix. There were long silences, indirect insults, and general surreality. “Do you want to ask me any serious questions?” Grayson finally asked. Bolling replied, “I don’t think so, sir. Honestly, it’s almost like I’m talking to a medicated person.”

Bolling, though wasn’t exactly fair and balanced either. One of his questions to Grayson, who was handily defeated last week by Daniel Webster, was, “Did you not move to the center enough, or did you stay too far left?” Well, there’s no winning that one. He also asked the outspoken representative what his future plans were. Bolling went ahead and presented Grayson with his options: writing for the Huffington Post or becoming “a mouthpiece for the health industry.” For anyone who’s forgotten, Grayson once referred to America’s health care system as a “holocaust.”

Watch the fireworks not quite take off in the Fox Business below (via Johnny Dollar):


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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Scott-Spangenberg/1743170150 Scott Spangenberg

    Chances are. He was talking to a medicated person. Who’s to say??

    http://thefreakazoid.weebly.com

  • Big Eddie

    Grayson should consider his options . His fellow defeated Democrat Alvin Greene is doing the same .

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44895.html

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Didn’t all the libs here say Grayson was going to win his election?

  • notsofast

    I see they caught Alan on one of his better “daze.”

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Good notsofast. Very good!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Soya/1088592828 Shawn Soya

    Good grief, this Eric Bolling guy needs to stay off the air. His show is embarrassing, even by Fox Business standards (which has none to speak of)

  • notsofast

    Libs suck.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    notsofast said:
    Libs suck.

    Nah Alan Grayson just makes Republicans feel weird because he is more outspoken than them and it scares them XD

    If more Dems like Grayson were around, this whole teabag thing would never have taken off.

    We need people like Grayson to shout out the retarded voices of the right because all the other Dems are too soft-spoken.

  • notsofast

    Jon Martin said:
    If more Dems like Grayson were around, this whole teabag thing would never have taken off.

    LOL

    He lost and so did you.

    Ha! Ha! Ha!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    He lost and so did you.

    Ha! Ha! Ha!

    I’m sure these kinds of comebacks are really hilarious to your friends in the Payless Shoes breakroom.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    Jon Martin said:
    If more Dems like Grayson were around, this whole teabag thing would never have taken off.

    You’ve got to be kidding. Are you being medicated?

  • cjd ohio 1

    jon, then why didn’t he get re-elected

  • The Real Royal King

    Shawn Soya said:
    Good grief, this Eric Bolling guy needs to stay off the air. His show is embarrassing, even by Fox Business standards (which has none to speak of)

    This is truly a meeting of two mindless sorts. Grayson in unhinged, but he has nothing on Bolling.

  • The Real Royal King

    Jon Martin said:
    I’m sure these kinds of comebacks are really hilarious to your friends in the Payless Shoes breakroom.

    That explains so much.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    cjd ohio 1 says:
    “jon, then why didn’t he get re-elected”

    In part because of CU v FEC, i.e., tons and tons of Koch and Chamber money.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    The Real Royal King said:
    That explains so much.

    Yes, I’m elitist, so are you though if you want welfare eliminated right?

  • jbeast

    Jon Martin said:
    If more Dems like Grayson were around, this whole teabag thing would never have taken off.

    I’d venture to say the tea party movement would’ve been a lot bigger if we’d had more Graysons around. That guy is a cancer and an embarrassment to the entire political system, regardless of party.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    jbeast said:
    I’d venture to say the tea party movement would’ve been a lot bigger if we’d had more Graysons around. That guy is a cancer and an embarrassment to the entire political system, regardless of party.

    Only from your viewpoint. I think Grayson is great, even if he did lose and it’s no surprise the Tea Party focused on him, he’s the biggest threat. He’s capable of making Republicans look like NOTHING. Usually beacuse their arguments are backed by nothing.

    Next generation will have tons of people like Grayson, and then the Republicans will really be in deep ****. They created a whole generation that hates them XD.

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    hat explains so much.

    “Watch the fireworks not quite take off in the Fox Business below (via Johnny Dollar):”

    THAT must kill you….

  • Cecelia

    Jon Martin said:
    ’m sure these kinds of comebacks are really hilarious to your friends in the Payless Shoes breakroom.

    Or the MSNBC 2010 MIDTERM ELECTION coverage ala Chris Matthews telling Rep. Michele Bachmann that she looked “hypnotized”.

  • Kitsune

    Jon Martin said:
    Only from your viewpoint. I think Grayson is great, even if he did lose and it’s no surprise the Tea Party focused on him, he’s the biggest threat. He’s capable of making Republicans look like NOTHING. Usually beacuse their arguments are backed by nothing. Next generation will have tons of people like Grayson, and then the Republicans will really be in deep ****. They created a whole generation that hates them XD.

    Great, an entire generation of loudmouthed attention-whoring psychopaths who expect the government to provide them with everything (until they ascend into the ranks of the elite, which they’ve been assured will definitely happen) so that they can continue to shout everyone they don’t like down and accuse them of myriad ridiculous things until they’ve rounded up an angry lynch mob against everyone who isn’t either part of their elitist circles or an activist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Jonathan Scott

    Never seen this clown before Eric Bolling, what a fucking rank amateur. He couldn’t handle Grayson and cut of the interview then talked about him for 10 minutes with his cowardly friends. How come you couldn’t talk to the panel without Grayson there to defend himself. He made Bolling look like a pussy, I guess he is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    Cecelia said:
    Or the MSNBC 2010 MIDTERM ELECTION coverage ala Chris Matthews telling Rep. Michele Bachmann that she looked “hypnotized”.

    You have to admit, it seems like Michelle is never quite “there”. She’s dangerously stupid and I’m not saying that just for a joke. She really is a total dumbass who somehow is in the government. She’s part of the group of Republicans that never want to be questioned about their beliefs.

  • bealzebubba

    People watch FBN?

  • notsofast

    Jon Martin said:
    I’m sure these kinds of comebacks are really hilarious to your friends in the Payless Shoes breakroom.

    LOL

    Ohhhhh, the libby is so angry that America voted him and his pathetic libs OUT!

    You lost, jonnyboy!

    hahhahahah

  • notsofast

    Jon Martin said:
    Jon Martin says:
    November 10, 2010 at 3:38 pm Jon Martin(Quote)

    Jon, you seem to be posting twice as much as usual. Great- you can now be twice as useless and irrelevant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    Kitsune said:

    Great, an entire generation of loudmouthed attention-whoring psychopaths who expect the government to provide them with everything (until they ascend into the ranks of the elite, which they’ve been assured will definitely happen) so that they can continue to shout everyone they don’t like down and accuse them of myriad ridiculous things until they’ve rounded up an angry lynch mob against everyone who isn’t either part of their elitist circles or an activist.

    Do you ever hear yourself? That’s your position. You really think the Democrats are the elite? The people that want everything to be fair? How does that work?

    The elite people are Republicans that are so bitter about other people that they keep the wealth for themselves and throw money into campaigns to keep poor people and minorities down.

    Democrats have morality on their side, Republicans just keep talking about money. Somehow, I don’t think Jesus would be on Republicans sides. Jesus didn’t like the bankers.. and the Republicans and their conservatives friends literally worship “the bankers” EG “the wealthy”.

    Republicans fall into all their traps, like continuing Bush-era tax cuts. How does that help anyone but the elite? I don’t even want to get into it, there is a very confusing maze in your mind. How does helping rich people translate to jobs exactly? You can’t make people create jobs, and in a bad economy, most people would rather horde or save their money.

    So really, what Republicans are doing, is helping rich people steal all of America’s money, at America’s expense. That’s the irony of the Tea Party name. they aren’t supporting PEOPLE in our country, just corporations. There are litterally people dying on hospital beds, that can afford healthcare, that are being denied by their insurers… and YOU Tea Party Patriots.. have the blood on your hands.

    I say, instead of a tax cut, we just give everyone a jar to keep a baby fetus in. Eventually, the wealth will trickle down, along with the afterbirth.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    notsofast said:
    LOL

    Ohhhhh, the libby is so angry that America voted him and his pathetic libs OUT!

    You lost, jonnyboy!

    hahhahahah

    It seems like you’ve been considered irrelevant on these forums for a long time, I doubt I’ll respond to you again :)

  • notsofast

    Jon Martin said:
    Republicans fall into all their traps, like continuing Bush-era tax cuts.

    LOL

    Obama and many Dims want to extend them.

    Wow, you are ignorant.

  • notsofast

    Jon Martin said:
    t seems like you’ve been considered irrelevant on these forums for a long time, I doubt I’ll respond to you again :)

    I hope that is a promise because your stupidity proves there is reincarnation; no one could get as ignorant as you in one lifetime.

  • cjd ohio 1

    the people that want everything fair………….. are you fucking joking………… regulated what i eat,what i speak , about what i think, how i live

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Jon Martin says:
    “Yes, I’m elitist, so are you though if you want welfare eliminated right?”

    People, who — like Beck — want to eliminate welfare, aren’t “elitists;” they’re selfish pricks (otherwise known as Libertarians or reactionaries). There are quite a few of them on here such as the “useless and irrelevant” snotsofast.

  • notsofast

    Jon Martin said:
    Jon Martin says:

    Thumb up 1 Thumb down 11
    November 10, 2010 at 2:12 pm Jon Martin(Quote)

    Jon, why all the red thumbs?

    Ha-ha-ha

  • notsofast

    GlennBeckReview said:
    they’re selfish pricks (otherwise known as Libertarians or reactionaries).

    Says a libby ahole who wants everyone on welfare.

    What is amusing is that you and Jon martin are the irrelevant ones- you got the biggest election beating in 62 YEARS!

    bawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    GlennBeckReview said:
    There are quite a few of them on here such as the “useless and irrelevant” snotsofast.

    Maybe if we ignore the little person, he will go away. lol.

  • notsofast

    Jon Martin said:
    Maybe if we ignore the little person, he will go away. lol.

    Try it! After all , the American people ignored YOU and your libby reps last Tuesday.

  • Cecelia

    Jon Martin said:
    You have to admit, it seems like Michelle is never quite “there”. She’s dangerously stupid and I’m not saying that just for a joke. She really is a total dumbass who somehow is in the government. She’s part of the group of Republicans that never want to be questioned about their beliefs.

    Well, if that comment is not for the gainfull employed employees at Payless, perhaps you’re making it for your colleagues doing court mandated weekend duty picking up litter along highways, Jon.

  • Cecelia

    Jon Martin said:
    So really, what Republicans are doing, is helping rich people steal all of America’s money, at America’s expense. That’s the irony of the Tea Party name. they aren’t supporting PEOPLE in our country, just corporations. There are litterally people dying on hospital beds, that can afford healthcare, that are being denied by their insurers… and YOU Tea Party Patriots.. have the blood on your hands.

    I always love how when these entities don’t make it rationally, that they are suddenly exploded in an irrational suicide bomber scenario.

  • justanotherconservative

    Jon Martin said:
    Nah Alan Grayson just makes Republicans feel weird because he is more outspoken than them and it scares them XD If more Dems like Grayson were around, this whole teabag thing would never have taken off. We need people like Grayson to shout out the retarded voices of the right because all the other Dems are too soft-spoken.

    hah! speaking of scared? who’s more scared than the libs right now? and speaking of medication… a few people here could take the hint.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    GlennBeckReview said:
    People, who — like Beck — want to eliminate welfare, aren’t “elitists;” they’re selfish pricks (otherwise known as Libertarians or reactionaries). There are quite a few of them on here such as the “useless and irrelevant” snotsofast.

    Why are you still here? You are still lying about Beck. I have been waiting for your lawsuit. LOL.

  • Cecelia

    What’s the difference between Matthews telling an interviewee (Michele Bachmann) that she looks “hypnotized” (snickering from Olbermann in the background) from this guy?

  • Kitsune

    Jon Martin said:
    Do you ever hear yourself? That’s your position. You really think the Democrats are the elite? The people that want everything to be fair? How does that work? The elite people are Republicans that are so bitter about other people that they keep the wealth for themselves and throw money into campaigns to keep poor people and minorities down. Democrats have morality on their side, Republicans just keep talking about money. Somehow, I don’t think Jesus would be on Republicans sides. Jesus didn’t like the bankers.. and the Republicans and their conservatives friends literally worship “the bankers” EG “the wealthy”. Republicans fall into all their traps, like continuing Bush-era tax cuts. How does that help anyone but the elite? I don’t even want to get into it, there is a very confusing maze in your mind. How does helping rich people translate to jobs exactly? You can’t make people create jobs, and in a bad economy, most people would rather horde or save their money. So really, what Republicans are doing, is helping rich people steal all of America’s money, at America’s expense. That’s the irony of the Tea Party name. they aren’t supporting PEOPLE in our country, just corporations. There are litterally people dying on hospital beds, that can afford healthcare, that are being denied by their insurers… and YOU Tea Party Patriots.. have the blood on your hands. I say, instead of a tax cut, we just give everyone a jar to keep a baby fetus in. Eventually, the wealth will trickle down, along with the afterbirth.

    The “Elite” in our society now aren’t so much the “Evil Republican Rich” anymore, they’re the Professors and the Lawyers and the politicians on both sides.

    People are taught now to dismiss anyone without a degree as being an “inbred religious-funamentalist hick” Who has no ability to reason and even isn’t worthy of drawing breath. They’re taught to look down on others and even HATE, all the while accusing those very people of hate, repeating it over and over again until someone else believes it.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    GlennBeckReview, is there somewhere I can read more about your incredible insights?

  • Padfoot

    Who is this Eric Bolling guy and why does he have a tv show? are you serious? this is really low class TV.

  • notsofast

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    GlennBeckReview, is there somewhere I can read more about your incredible insights?

    Yes, the Longview Sanitarium.

  • Cecelia

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    GlennBeckReview, is there somewhere I can read more about your incredible insights?

    Yes, weeshcewabstractthinking.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Caplinger/1530802200 Mark Caplinger

    Grayson should be used as a posterboy for what liberals really are all about. They exaggerate about conservative views,they insult and ridicule them because they know the media will stand behind them. I thank God Alan will not be present in congress when America is finally put on the RIGHT track.

    This example is for all the liberals here that insist democrats care about the poor,about the minorities,about those less fortunate than others. When Michelle was an employee at the University of Chicago Medical facility,the non-profit hospital lowered the amount they spent on low income care,they out-sourced poor patients to other facilities and in one case…. a young black boy and his mother entered the ER, the boy had gotten his whole upper lip torn off by a dog. When they found out that he was on Medicaid,they gave him a shot,Tylenol and some antibiotics and told them to leave. His mom had to drive an hour to get surgery for his child.

    So PLEASE TELL ME LIBERALS…. why should I believe the crap that comes out of the mouths of the Obama’s when they have a history of treating the poor like animals,and surrounding themselves with black rich people?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sharon-Johnson/100001697382912 Sharon Johnson

    It was really funny. I watched it and all grayson could keep saying is talk about the health care. He is such an idiot and I am so glad that this idiot is gone. One less ugly face to look at now if we could get rid of botox pelosi and

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Martin/43100610 Jon Martin

    Cecelia said:
    Well, if that comment is not for the gainfull employed employees at Payless, perhaps you’re making it for your colleagues doing court mandated weekend duty picking up litter along highways, Jon.

    Meh, mine was better.

  • BatBoy

    I hope this is the last day in my life where I ever hear or see Alan Grayson’s face or any story about him.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    GlennBeckReview said:
    cjd ohio 1 says:
    “jon, then why didn’t he get re-elected”

    In part because of CU v FEC, i.e., tons and tons of Koch and Chamber money.

    Oh, really?

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/big-evil-industries-fundedwhich-party-106891623.html

  • Cecelia

    Jon Martin said:
    Meh, mine was better.

    Yeah.if it’s between gainfully employed shoe store workers vs. court-mandated weekend litter pickers.

    We know who’ll you’ll disparage.

  • timcajun

    There were some good points by all, but Grayson just slowed up and stated his point. He didn’t play ball and Bolling didn’t like it. So what?

  • Cecelia

    I don’t know… wnen Boiling implied that Grayson was “a medicated person” was he interviewing Grayson for Fox News Midterm Election coverage, as Matthews was interviewing Rep. Bachmann for MSNBC Midterm Election Coverage when he asked her if she was “hypnotized” (cueOlbermann chortling in the background)…

    You tell me, Mediaite.

  • michiganruth

    why is anyone interviewing Alan Grayson in the first place? the moron lost. actually, I liked having him around; he was one of the best advertisements for the Republicans.

  • notsofast

    Dave Noland said:
    Notsosmart you need a fro pick of truth for that tangled web of lies you peddle daily

    But you could not name one!

    Hubba, hubba!

  • hanoisteve

    michiganruth said:
    why is anyone interviewing Alan Grayson in the first place? the moron lost.

    Then Why does Fox news give Shara half term Governor and Vice-Presidential loser on?

    What a crap show, Interview a congressmen and then have three guest in the studio to bash what ever he says with a pre-written narrative. Kind of like the Voter Fraud “news” shows produced before the election, but when the Republicans won they did not run them.

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    I think I know what happened when Alan Grayson visited Eric Bolling on Fox Business the other day.
    Eric Bolling , over the past week seems to be having trouble either seeing or reading the TelePrompTer and that projected an opinion of some viewers that maybe a personality conflict was in progress. Alan Grayson is a very smart person and knows how to avoid bad situations. I think Eric Bolling just had a bad night or his TelePrompTer person had a bad night.

  • pansycritter

    Jon Martin said:
    Nah Alan Grayson just makes Republicans feel weird because he is more outspoken than them and it scares them XD If more Dems like Grayson were around, this whole teabag thing would never have taken off. We need people like Grayson to shout out the retarded voices of the right because all the other Dems are too soft-spoken.

    Libs suck

  • pansycritter

    hanoisteve said:
    Then Why does Fox news give Shara half term Governor and Vice-Presidential loser on? What a crap show, Interview a congressmen and then have three guest in the studio to bash what ever he says with a pre-written narrative. Kind of like the Voter Fraud “news” shows produced before the election, but when the Republicans won they did not run them.

    quit whining. We won.

    Grayson is an idiot and voters recognized that. Maybe he can collect welfare with his fellow libs.

  • pansycritter

    notsofast said:
    But you could not name one! Hubba, hubba!

    I suspect he may be a liberal then. Just an accusation; no facts.

  • hgovernick

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Didn’t all the libs here say Grayson was going to win his election?

    No, all the libs here said one day you might find a life outside of your own self-important delusions. Don’t you remember?

  • hgovernick

    notsofast said:
    I see they caught Alan on one of his better “daze.”

    Oh, mister “clever” word smith again. You’re not yourself today. What an improvement. You seem lost in thought, as usual. Tell me, how many Peeping Toms have you cured?

    They say opposites attract. I hope you meet someone who is good-looking, intelligent, and cultured. How many years did it take you to learn how to breathe? You are so dumb you got hit by a parked car.

    You’re so slow it takes you an hour and a half to watch “Sixty Minutes.”

    But you do have my sincere sympathies… I know you are suffering from delusions of adequacy. Just remember my philosophy when you get too far down in the dumps: Life is mind over matter. I don’t mind, because you don’t matter.

  • Nahu Tuk

    GlennBeckReview said:
    In part because of CU v FEC, i.e., tons and tons of Koch and Chamber money.

    So, you’re saying it has nothing to do with Grayson’s own failings?

  • Nahu Tuk

    BatBoy said:
    I hope this is the last day in my life where I ever hear or see Alan Grayson’s face or any story about him.

    And I hope you live a hundred years.

  • Nahu Tuk

    Dave Noland said:
    What a group of tools… They hate Grayson because he fights with the same pair of brass knuckles the the GOP fights with. Plain and simple.

    Fighting grayson is like fighting an unarmed Girl Scout.

  • Nahu Tuk

    Jon Martin said:
    Only from your viewpoint. I think Grayson is great, even if he did lose and it’s no surprise the Tea Party focused on him, he’s the biggest threat. He’s capable of making Republicans look like NOTHING. Usually beacuse their arguments are backed by nothing. Next generation will have tons of people like Grayson, and then the Republicans will really be in deep ****. They created a whole generation that hates them XD.

    If grayson is so “great” why did his own party abandon him. Even the Dimicraps knew he was a cancer on their cause. They hated grayson because he tipped America on the progressive plan.

  • hgovernick

    Nahu Tuk said:
    Fighting grayson is like fighting an unarmed Girl Scout.

    I’m not being mean when I say … you’re just a sissy. Of all the intelligent Republicans in here, I have yet to meet one. I imagine you have a natural talent for finding subliminal messages in ice cubes, making you a prime candidate for natural deselection.

    Notsofast told me that when you were born, the doctor gave your dad a note that stated: “Batteries not included”.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    GlennBeckReview said:
    cjd ohio 1 says:“jon, then why didn’t he get re-elected” In part because of CU v FEC, i.e., tons and tons of Koch and Chamber money.

    Methinks your tin foil hat needs new batteries. You think it has nothing to do with his buffoonish behavior on the House floor and his of the tracks campaign. I guess Media Matters and the unions couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    Dave Noland said:
    What a group of tools… They hate Grayson because he fights with the same pair of brass knuckles the the GOP fights with. Plain and simple.

    Grayson fights with a whoopee cushion and Bozo fright wig.

  • Nahu Tuk

    hgovernick said:
    I’m not being mean when I say … you’re just a sissy. Of all the intelligent Republicans in here, I have yet to meet one. I imagine you have a natural talent for finding subliminal messages in ice cubes, making you a prime candidate for natural deselection. Notsofast told me that when you were born, the doctor gave your dad a note that stated: “Batteries not included”.

    One of your “fathers” told me that when your mother got knocked up with you, most of “you” ran down her leg and into the alley where she was doing business.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    GlennBeckReview said:
    “they’re selfish pricks (otherwise known as Libertarians or reactionaries).”

    notsofast says:
    “Says a libby ahole who wants everyone on welfare.”

    Snotsofastorsmart, when did you learn such rhetorical tactics? First or second grade?

    Or from Rush Limbaugh (which amounts to the same thing.

    Jon Martin says:
    Maybe if we ignore the little person, he will go away. lol.

    Jon, I’ll go one on one with you on any b-ball court on any day. Then we’ll see who’s little.
    Oh, you’re speaking mentally? OK, one on one civics exam. We’ll see who’s little then.

  • let-me-explainify…

    Kitsune said:
    Great, an entire generation of loudmouthed attention-whoring psychopaths who expect the government to provide them with everything (until they ascend into the ranks of the elite, which they’ve been assured will definitely happen) so that they can continue to shout everyone they don’t like down and accuse them of myriad ridiculous things until they’ve rounded up an angry lynch mob against everyone who isn’t either part of their elitist circles or an activist.

    ^ UMMM, you’re describing ‘fright’ wingers.
    you hypocritical faux ‘ewes’ sheeple are very funny.

  • let-me-explainify…

    “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations” ~ Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson would NOT be pleased by the 2010 mid-term elections)

    High-Court Hypocrisy & Corruption of the SCOTUS
    http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/22/high-court-hypocrisy.html

    ^ In a devastating decision, the conservative supreme court cleared the way for one of the biggest, most dangerous corporate takeovers evaaaar! If Exxon wants to spend $1 million (a bar tab for Big Oil) defeating an environmentalist running for city council, it can now do so. If Goldman Sachs wants to pay the entire cost of every congressional campaign in the U.S., the law of the land now allows it. (Fortune 100 firms currently spend only a fraction of 1 percent of their $605 billion in annual profits on buying politicians.)

    The court was asked whether the Federal Election Commission had the right to regulate a corporate-backed outfit called Citizens United that made the conservative film Hillary: The Movie. But instead of ruling narrowly, the Roberts Court—in a new standard for judicial hypocrisy—struck down the laws of 22 states & the federal government. The doors were opened to the koch brothers to buy our politicians by judges who’ve attended their billionaire shin-digs – a move that reeks of BILLIONAIRE CORPORATE CORRUPTION.

    Justices Scalia & Thomas @ Koch Event Sparks Judicial Ethics Debate
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/scalia-thomas-koch-industries_n_769843.html

    Supreme Court Justice Alito: My fundraising for conservative causes is ‘not important’
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/supreme-court-justice-alito-fundraising-conservatives-not-important/

    Conservatives who bashed liberal judges for “legislating from the bench” & disrespecting precedent are exposed as unprincipled poseurs. At his confirmation hearings, John Roberts said, “Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules; they apply them.” He repeated his belief in judicial restraint & the importance of precedent. So what did his court do? It gutted more than a century of law that barred direct corporate expenditures on behalf of politicians.

    Now, we who’ve grown up depending on courts to protect our interest must now build a mass movement to confront the greatest accumulation of corporate power since the age of the robber barons.

    PRESIDENT OBAMA’s REACTION?

    President Obama criticized the ridiculous ruling
    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/justice-alitos-reaction/?scp=2&sq=linda+greenhouse&st=cse

    In January President Obama took the apparently unprecedented step of assailing the Supreme Court decision in his State of the Union speech saying -

    “with all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’d urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that corrects some of these problems.”

    IS THERE A REMEDY?

    Democracy Is Strengthened
    by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act
    http://www.ombwatch.org/node/10973

    THE DISCLOSURE ACT S3295
    http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s3295/show#

    think of this bill like a ‘BANDAGE’ over the wound the conservative SCOTUS ruling caused when they said “Corps are people”… (UGH!)
    we’re smarter than that, aren’t we America? The constitution says “we the people”, not we the corporations!

    So call & write your senators!
    http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
    let them know you want them to fight to get this passed! That you want to know what special interest groups are funding what candidate campaigns – VOTE YES FOR DISCLOSURE!

    Money & Democracy Update:
    DISCLOSE Act coming back August 20, 2010
    http://citizenvox.org/2010/08/20/money-democracy-update-disclose-act-coming-back/

    i’m very proud to say my senators Schumer & Gillibrand co-sponsored the DISCLOSURE ACT. yet again, DEMS need to ‘FIX’ the messes left behind by Repugnican’ts who obstruct & hinder every positive step made forward…

    Let the Republican’ts know what you think of their traitorousness too! >:)

    RECORD BREAKING REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM!
    http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Cloture_Voting_U.S._Senate_1947_to_2008.jpg

    RECORD BREAKING REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM!
    http://www.ourfuture.org/fact-sheets-briefs/record-breaking-republican-obstructionism

    please call & write your representatives -

    FIGHT THIS NOW! or prepare yourself to see your democracy sold to the highest bidder & monied corporate interests (both foreign & domestic!) concerned with PROFIT vs WHAT’S BEST FOR “WE THE PEOPLE” again & again.

    we lost GOOD CANDIDATES working on behalf of “we the people” because of MILLIONS poured into their opposition’s campaigns

    don’t let this travesty of justice happen to us again.

  • http://disabilityinfo.hostcell.net/index.htm mugwort

    My comment is concerning the phrase “like talking to a medicated person.” Let’s be real medicated refers to psychotropics, ie, medications used for a person with a mental illness. Please note I purposely wrote person with a mental illness as opposed to be mentally ill or some derogatory , hurtful term. I’m certain you know terms I mean re: Like a medicated person. People with mental or psychiatric illnesses need their meds. Most if not all can not function without them. These illnesses are just as much illnesses as any physical ones. People with mental illnesses suffer not only from their illness but also from insensitive attitudes such as yours. While it is true its important to have a sense of humor, please remember mental illnesses are true illnesses and therefore they need to be treated. I am a woman with a mood disorder. I personally know what I wrote is true.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-LoConti/1439713151 Nick LoConti

    The fact is that no lying propagandist on Faux Spews can answer a simple policy question: If Republicans knew there was a problem and that 40,000 Americans were dying each year and many more were going bankrupt and Health Care costs Americans more than twice the rest of the World with less quality results……then why did they do nothing about it when they had full control for 8 yrs. Why did they fight any reform for 60 yrs? They said they had a plan that would fix it and cost nothing….but that never appeared during the debate. The answer is simple Big money paid for big lies about the Health Reform Bill….it did nothing to try to help and tried to keep the greedy in charge of another failing system. It worked…aided by Faux liars!
    They can’t answer this simple question and they can’t and would not have an honest debate on the actual policy. Instead they lied their asses off and tried to keep killing Americans for the bottom line profits of the Insurance Cartel. Any honest debate shows this…thats why they never debate in public. They hide like cowards and slap each other on the back like most drunk, paid off, mobs do…..and people die! Greysons a hero! More are needed….and are coming. Now that the Repubs are in charge of their own mess….they will find the only policys that would actually work are already President Obama’s. Small minds, big lies, big money….not truth should not be heralded…it should be neutered!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-LoConti/1439713151 Nick LoConti

    DEBATE THE FACTS…YOU LYING BUMS!
    In July, 1798, Congress passed, and President John Adams signed into law “An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen,” authorizing the creation of a marine hospital service, and mandating privately employed sailors to purchase healthcare insurance.
This legislation also created America’s first payroll tax, as a ship’s owner was required to deduct 20 cents from each sailor’s monthly pay and forward those receipts to the service, which in turn provided injured sailors hospital care. Failure to pay or account properly was discouraged by requiring a law violating owner or ship’s captain to pay a 100 dollar fine.

This historical fact demolishes claims of “unprecedented” and “The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty…”

Perhaps these somewhat incompetent attorneys general might wish to amend their lawsuits to conform to the 1798 precedent, and demand that the mandate and fines be linked to implementing a federal single payer healthcare insurance plan.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-LoConti/1439713151 Nick LoConti

    Fox questions…designed to be demeaning and Greyson didn’t fall for the retards attempts to deminish his Health Care Victory. Greyson is a Hero. Faux is a paid off propaganda station.

    In the old west if some politician or banker stood in the way of getting medical help to a sick child….the town would have shot he/or her dead! Thats the real America, not this vile gold digging puss bomb…Faux Spews!
    Take them off the air…and America goes forward…keep them and fear and hate get spread for the rich to prosper. Every one kept fighting boogy men while the bank robbers sack the town. This is the sole purpose behind Murdocks and the Crony Capitalism he represents.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-LoConti/1439713151 Nick LoConti

    And this is not the only time Govt mandated people buying anything!
    Tea Party, Republicans and Faux Spews is completely wrong as any first year Constitutional lawyer or Historian would quickly show…Facts not farts…please! Shilling for the Rich does not make you a patriot!

    Wth July,1798.

    CHAP. [94.] An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.1

    § 1. Be it enacted, Sfc. That from and after the first day of September next, the master or owner of every ship or vessel of the United States, arriving from a foreign port into any port of the United States, shall, before such ship or vessel shall be admitted to an entry, render to the collector a true account of the number of seamen that shall have been employed on board such vessel since she was last entered at any port in the United States, and shall pay, to the said collector, at the rate of twenty cents per month for every seaman so employed ; which sum he is hereby authorized to retain out of the wages of such seamen.
    § 2. That from and after the first day of September next, no collector shall grant to any ship or vessel whose enrollment or license for carrying on the coasting trade has expired, a new enrollment or license, before the master of such ship or vessel shall first render a true account to the collector, of the number of seamen, and the time they have severally been employed on board such ship or vessel, during the continuance of the license which has so expired, and pay to such collector twenty cents per month for every month such seamen have been severally employed as aforesaid ; which sum the said master is hereby authorized to retain out of the wages of such seamen. And if any such master shall render a false account of the number of men, and the length of time they have severally been employed, as is herein required, he shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars.
    § 3. That it shall be the duty of the several collectors to make a quarterly return of the sums collected by them, respectively, by virtue of this act, to the secretary of the treasury ; and the president of the United States is hereby authorized, out of the same, to provide for the temporary relief and maintenance of sick, or disabled seamen, in the hospitals or other proper institutions now established in the several ports of the United States, or in ports where no such institutions exist, then in such other manner as he shall direct:Provided, that the moneys collected in any one district, shall be expended within the same.
    defraying the expense of such temporary relief and support, that the same, together with such private donations as may be made for that purpose, (which the president is hereby authorized to receive,) shall be invested in the stock of the United States, under the direction of the president; and when, in his opinion, a sufficient fund shall be accumulated, he is hereby authorized to purchase or receive cessions or donations of ground or buildings, in the name of the United States, and to cause buildings, when necessary, to be erected as hospitals for the accommodation of sick and disabled seamen.
    § 5. That the president of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to nominate and appoint, in such ports of the United States as he may think proper, one or more persons, to be called directors of the marine hospital of the United States, whose duty it shall be to direct the expenditure of the fund assigned for their respective ports, according to the third section of this act; to provide for the accommodation of sick and disabled seamen, under such general
    1 Curtis, George Tickner. A Treatise on the Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen, According to the General Maritime Law, and
    the Statutes of the United States. (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841), 407-409

    instructions as shall be given by the president of the United States for that purpose, and also, subject to the like general instructions, to direct and govern such hospitals, as the president may direct to be built in the respective ports : and that the said directors shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the president, who is authorized to fill up all vacancies that may be occasioned by the death or removal of any of the persons so to be appointed. And the said directors shall render an account of the moneys received and expended by them, once in every quarter of a year, to the secretary of the treasury, or such other person as the president shall direct; but no other allowance or compensation shall be made to the said directors, except the payment of such expenses as they may incur in the actual discharge of the duties required by this act.[ A pproved,
    July 16, 1798.

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