Archive for Representative Alan Grayson

VIDEO: Alan Grayson delivers #CancelTheSequester petition signed by 300,000 to John Boehner’s office

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Go Alan Grayson!

The GOP lives for austerity and strives for cuts to and the eventual elimination of successful programs that so many Americans depend on. Their watchword: Privatize. Their goal: Union busting (Read: Ending Democratic fundraising) and destroying their own government. Their prize: Money and power. They salivate over the prospect of profiting off of the misfortune of others, the needs of their fellow citizens, the public programs that have worked better than their for-profit corporate schemes.

Austerity hasn’t worked overseas, it hasn’t worked here.

Via AusterityNut.com

Via AusterityNut.com

Alan Grayson:

“…End the sequester.”

Washington does not normally see 300,000 people speak as one. I am your legs today, and to some extent I’m your voice, but I’m not the one who matters. What matters is that we work together… In numbers there is strength.”

“…They’re gonna have to listen.”

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Via Wired For Change:

Now we have to make sure that everyone, including the White House, knows that the American people reject all benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.  

In an effort led by Alan Grayson, 31 members of Congress have pledged to vote against legislation that cuts Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare benefits. 

Let’s make sure the White House knows we reject all benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

If 100,000 of us sign this petition, Alan Grayson will deliver it to the White House.

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An emboldened Alan Grayson makes “the biggest comeback in history of the House”

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I’ve missed Alan Grayson the way John McCain misses the spotlight if he fails to make it onto a Sunday talk show.

Now that Grayson’s back, I am relishing his Congressional presence and candor the way Dick Morris relishes toes. (Too far? Bygones.)

Roll Call:

Grayson said the House historian informed him the victory, a 43-point swing from his 2010 loss, was the biggest comeback in history of the House.

His lesson from the experience is to press on, full steam ahead.

Here’s what he had to say about the GOP:

“They love the taste of blood. They’re consistently pro-war, consistently pro-killing foreigners. They view the entire world as either a massive inconvenience or something they feel is a personal threat. One or the other. They don’t recognize the world as full of human beings.”

Aw come on, Alan, don’t hold back.

Love him or not, he’s hard to ignore, he’s straightforward, he certainly doesn’t b.s. around. I personally admire his bluntness and feel that he makes great points in a memorable way while others are too timid, hypocritical, or beholden to their donors to take principled stands on any given issue.

Does he ever cross the line? Maaaybe, but so does pretty much everyone in politics, plus, he has a much greater track record of saying the right things at the right time.

President Obama aside, Alan Grayson and Elizabeth Warren were my biggest sighs of relief last November.

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