{"id":2795,"date":"2009-09-30T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2013-08-04T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T18:45:13","slug":"alan-grayson-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/30\/alan-grayson-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Grayson: Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) took to the House floor Tuesday and let fly with what may just be the most idiotic remarks in the history of American politics:<\/p>\n

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Grayson is a first term Congressman representing Florida’s 8th Congressional District… A traditionally Republican leaning district. He’s vulnerable, he knows it and he’s letting it all hang out in an attempt to energize his nutroots base.<\/p>\n

Erick Erickson has more on Rep. Grayson’s history of, um, overheated rhetoric<\/a> at RedState.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, for the record the Republicans have offered three alternative health care reform bills<\/a>… None of which say die quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (7:00 p.m.): Grayson’s doubling down<\/a> on overheated rhetoric this time saying “I’ll apologize to the dead.”<\/p>\n

Oh Lord, I can’t for the life of me understand how someone who is arguing for a plan that will lead to rationing can lecture anyone on causing early death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) took to the House floor Tuesday and let fly with what may just be the most idiotic remarks in the history of American politics: Grayson is a first term Congressman representing Florida’s 8th Congressional District… A traditionally Republican leaning district. He’s vulnerable, he knows it and he’s letting it all hang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,7],"tags":[870,781,720],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-health-care","category-politics","tag-alan-grayson","tag-health-care-reform","tag-house-of-representatives","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-J5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5334,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/24\/alan-grayson-toxic-idiot\/","url_meta":{"origin":2795,"position":0},"title":"Alan Grayson: Toxic Idiot","author":"Jeff","date":"October 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't been paying close attention to politics recently so I was a little surprised when an old post about Florida Congressman Alan Grayson started receiving a lot views recently. 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