Is It Ever OK to Call a Woman a Whore? NO

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Congressman Alan Grayson has been mouth-flashing again. 

Every video of this mouth flash has been disabled.  (in the place of the embed code: Embedding disabled by request) Here is a copy of the transcript:

REP. ALAN GRAYSON, D-FLA.: Here I am the only member of Congress who actually worked as an economist, and this lobbyist, this K Street whore, is trying to teach me about economics.

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

So many questions, so little time.

  1. Why is Rep. Grayson allowed to ‘take it back?’
  2. Why is he so special that a video of him being a rude ass has been ‘deleted’ for all practical purposes?
  3. How do these remarks differ from what Don Imus said?
  4. Will Grayson get the same treatment from his colleagues that Wilson was given?

Apparently Rep. Grayson was on a radio show and was speaking about Linda Robertson, a lobbyist and advisor for Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke.

According to Politico:

Republicans and Democrats slammed Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) for calling Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a “K Street whore” in a month-old radio interview that circulated on Capitol Hill Monday night.

“There’s no call for that language. No call for it. That’s absurd. If he was standing here now, I’d say that to him,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)

“He’s out of control,” added Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who is vice chairwoman of the House Republican Conference.

The remarks are the latest to surface in a string of controversial statements by Grayson, who said on the Alex Jones radio show that he believes Robertson, a former Enron lobbyist, is not qualified to pass judgment on intricate financial matters.

It’s clear that his colleagues’ opinion of him has suffered.

“Is this news to you that this guy’s one fry short of a Happy Meal?” asked Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer defended Robertson, whom he said he knows.

“I think it’s inappropriate and unfair,” the Maryland Democrat said. He decried the “heated rhetoric” that he said interferes with the ability solve problems.

 

Late last month, Grayson said Republicans’ health care plans were for Americans to “die quickly.”

 

Steny Hoyer needs to learn that there are just some things you don’t call women. ‘Whore’ is one of those things.

Grayson issued the following apology:

“I offer my sincere apology,” Grayson said in a statement, just hours after his spokesman defended his comments. “I did not intend to use a term that is often, and correctly, seen as disrespectful of women.”

Senate Finance Committee Passes Health Care Bill

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As the Senate Finance Committee passed a $829 Billion bill that reshapes the health care system today, sides squared off for the  mother-lode of battles: The White House vs The Health Care Insurance Lobby.

Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) was the lone Republican to cast her vote in favor of this reform.

According to the Washington Post:

…[A]ttacks on the leading Democratic reform plan this week by the insurance lobby left little doubt that two of the most powerful institutions involved in the debate — the White House and the nation’s insurance companies — have abandoned any real hope of forging a compromise. What was a tenuous truce has turned quickly into an all-out battle, with both sides ratcheting up the hostilities.

As the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved a 10-year, $829 billion bill to remake the health-care system, Obama’s top advisers and the insurers moved into a more intense stage of conflict.

“The insurance industry has decided to lead the charge against health reform, and everyone recognizes their motives: profits,” said White House deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer. “We are going to make sure they can’t sink this effort at the last minute.”

After watching all those commercials intended to scare the crap out of people, after listening to all those tea party people, after listening so many say that we have the best health system in the world, one has ask themself:  Why are we letting the people who have been cheating us and robbing us blind all these years dictate national policy?

Full Story in Washington Post

Congressmen Shoot Off at the Mouth

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On the floor of the House of Representatives this week, Congressman Alan Grayson, (D-Fl) has his own media show on health care, using 2 story board size prints.  Republicans have called for him to apologize.  So far, like Joe Wilson, that has not happened.  Republicans are said to be drafting a resolution calling out his behavior.

Should he apologize or is this just hyperbole?  Republicans equate his behavior to that of Congressman Joe Wilson.  Did Grayson interrupt anyone?  Is he exaggerating to make his point?  Are the Republicans being thin-skinned?

In another story, Congressman Trent Franks (R-Az), while speaking before the How to Take Back America Conference, called President Obama an ‘enemy of humanity.’

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At one point, Franks demanded that Obama release his birth certificate to prove his constitutional eligibility to hold office. The bluntest charge, however, centered on the president’s position on abortion, which the congressman derided as “insane” and godless

He further stated:

“Obama’s first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers’ money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries,” said Frank.[sic] “Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there’s almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn’t be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can’t do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity.”

I don’t know. That is pretty rough stuff to be saying about any President of the United States. Does everyone need to reign it in a bit?  Should Franks apologize or does the fact that he was ‘off campus’ mitigate his remarks to some degree?  Are Democrats being too thin skinned?

Full story at Huffington Post.

Link to video of Trent Franks