Grayson goes after “Taliban Dan”

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Disclaimer: Moonhowlings does not endorse either candidate nor does it speak to the accuracy of either video.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is not the master of understatement. In fact, most people think he is somewhat over the top. He is definitely liberal. What happens when neither candidate seems to fit the tenor of the constituents? Grayson’s opponent, Daniel Webster, was supposedly elected in primary by the far, far right. I checked out Webster’s website. He seems conservative but not insanely so. That is not to say he is or isn’t, just that his website is no indication of far right insanity.

Grayson has nicknamed his opponent Tailban Dan:

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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.”