Given the outright bigotry, staggering ignorance, blithe racism, horrible fearmongering and virulent rancor out there by the Tea Party, you'd think someone would notice. Alas, for the unforgivable, intolerable crime of being Democrat With A Spine, Newsweek's George Will has named Alan Grayson the worst politician in America.
There are hundreds of plausible nominees for the title of America’s Second-Smarmiest Politician, but surely the top spot is un-contested. Americans of all political persuasions can come together in affirming one proposition: Public life would be improved by scrubbing Rep. Alan Grayson from it. This act of civic hygiene probably will be performed Nov. 2 by voters of Florida’s Eighth Congressional District. Polls indicate that a majority of them plan to deny Grayson, 52, a second term by electing his resonantly named opponent, Daniel Webster.
Nice piece of eliminationist rhetoric too: Grayson must be "scrubbed out of public life." No, you see, Grayson ran ads attacking Webster as "Taliban Dan" and that's so far beyond the pale of anything Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Tom Tancredo, Joe Miller, or Christine O' Donnell has done that he is the one who must be "scrubbed" out.
Everything you need to know about George Will, the Village, and the vicious double standard that Democrats are held to is summed up by Will's hack piece here, including the fact that Grayson is so despised for standing up that Will declares he must be taken out of politics for good. The Wingers are lining up to let everyone know what they mean by "scrubbed" too, Ed Driscoll hoping it's Grayson's "epitaph" and Jeff Dunetz calling him "stupid and nasty, a deadly combination."
This is what a Democrat who refuses to buckle under must endure. And for that, he is History's Greatest Monster of the moment. Help Alan raise his million dollars. He's extremely close right now.
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What do Alan Grayson and Zandar have in common?
"Fragments of Credibility".
Oh look. He learned a few new words. They'll be so proud of themselves that they'll repeat it incessantly.
And here I thought we had grown-ups on this blog.
The main reason Grayson has to go is because the congressman is a serial liar. I saw this more than two years ago when he discussed the George H.W. Bush/Bill Clinton Somalia operation. Here's what Grayson had to say about it:
In the last months of his Presidency, President George H.W. Bush ordered over 25,000 troops to occupy Somalia. U.S. troops, 8,000 miles from home, knowing nothing about local conditions, not speaking the language, and unfamiliar with local society, religion or customs, were given vague instructions to “subdue the insurgents.” Numerous American soldiers died. Bush then left it to his successor, President Bill Clinton, to deal with the consequences. President Clinton brought our troops home.
No matter how any Grayson supporter wants to spin this, it didn't happen this way at all. And it isn't as if Grayson wouldn't know; he just had no interest in telling the truth. That pretty much sums up Grayson's actions as a congressman.
I'm guessing that Grayson's lies aren't a problem for Grayson supporters here. I'm also guessing they would agree with Grayson lying about what happened in Somalia in 1992-3.
As I said, "fragments of credibility".
Grayson is actually guilty of everything that liberals accuse the Tea Party candidates of doing. In two years he has become the most hated man in Congress.
What does that say about who the real extremists are?
"What does that say about who the real extremists are?"
by "real extremists" do you by any chance mean the conservative weirdoes who spend god-only-knows-how-many hours trolling liberal blogs to post shit like that? according to you and steveASS, no liberal is right about anything. that's a pretty extreme point of view if you think about it.
i'm just sayin'.
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