I'm really tempted to move to FL!

Pinch me. I'm in love!

Wow. A Democrat who's not afraid to speak the truth, and doesn't fold under Republican pressure?! What a novel concept!

NOW THIS IS CHANGE I CAN BELIEVE IN. Lets send money to this guy. Speaks truth to power. Just great. Of course the GOP has no sense of shame. They will continue to play politics while people die.

Call me cynical, but I think I smell the beginning of a fundraising campaign.

Of course, that doesn't mean what Grayson is saying isn't 100% true. But c'mon, doesn't it look like he's deliberately painting a target on his back?

It's nice to see that there's at least one representative whose testicles have fully descended. Now he needs to share the secret with his colleagues...

Whatever he has in his veins give a transfusion of a few quarts to Obama and the rest of the Demos and get this country going!

about time someone nutted up

Grayson for President!

FINALLY! A Democrat with some balls who isn't playing nice with the bullies on the block.

Bravo Representative Grayson! Keep it up!

BTW---His comments on the Maddow Show were better. He pointedly said that the Republicans are "entirely uncrupulous" "foot dragging, knuckle draggin neanderthals"

Good man Grayson. Good man indeed.

Thank you Rep. Grayson! Grab the conversation by the horns and wrestle that message into the mainstream. Oh, and thanks also for having a pair.

Also, we have to quit saying, "right-wing wackadoodle", and start saying (always), "right-wing REPUBLICAN wackadoodle".

Branding is so important.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL). Yes Sir and about time. Now Grayson needs to drop his pants in front of each and every democrat and show them what a set of balls look like. Or, he could ask Max Baucus to drop his pants and do a show and tell on how to sell your own balls (or scruples for that matter) and for how much.

As soon as I heard about Rep. Alan Grayson's comments, I knew exactly what was going to happen: First, inevitably, Republican bloggers and office holders would become incensed and insulted and would demand an apology. Then -- and this is where it gets interesting -- some moderate liberal bloggers would come to Grayson's defense, albeit with caveats. Call them the "albeit chorus," comprised of prominent liberal bloggers who consider themselves reasonable and civilized above all else, and either write for semi-mainstream publications or hope to do so one day. Any supposed support for the substance of what Grayson said would come only after statements that would express their distaste of Grayson's uncouthness. Just like Josh Marshal did, rushing to tell us that Grayson's comments were "really over the top" and he would not actually defend them.

I actually think Grayson's comments are eminently defensible -- the current health care insurance system allows people who can't afford health insurance to die, and anyone who's against reforming it is at least guilty of negligent manslaughter. But for once, under this particular political climate where obviously insane people have taken over the Republican party, I would have liked to see prominent liberals like Marshal defend Grayson on the substance of what he said without any "albeits." Perhaps then the MSM would concentrate on how many people actually do die from lack of health care due to lack of funds, and how the Republicans don't care if they die or not. Instead, what will happen next is also inevitable: spineless democrats will join the Republicans asking Grayson to apologize, the MSM pundits will join in and Grayson may end up joining all the other Democrats who had to prostrate themselves because nobody had their back.

I just sent Grayson a donation and will continue to do so.

Rep. Grayson hasn't said anything that I haven't written, and what a lot of other people have written or said as well. The only people clutching pearls are politicians and the damn fools in the press who think saying something like this is equivalent to doing what Rep. Joe Wilson did.

BTW, in answer to Josh Marshall's question, here's a reporter who was stupid enough not to point out that the GOP have been talking nonsense about death panels for months.

I'm likin' Rep. Grayson...

Alan Grayson is up on Act Blue. I sent the man $10.
I know that's not much but if all the readers of TPM send even a few dollars, that will be the most audible message that we can send the Dim party.
Maybe then the Dims will get the medical help they need to strengthen their spines.

I get all sorts of begging emails from the Dim Party. They won't get my money till they've earned it. I'll give money to the opponents of Joe who isn't Joe Wilson and Bachmann as a message to the Repugs to grow up. And to people like Alan Grayson, who has earned it. But not the DNC, until they start acting like the Democratic party, instead of like Repocons.

Finally, a Democrat with a sack.

I want that man to be PRESIDENT!

For anyone able to spare $20.10 go to Rep. Greyson's website and donate money here: https://graysonforcongress.com/

When one of the few, true Representatives we have does his job (brilliantly!) and STANDS UP FOR THE PEOPLE HE REPRESENTS, we should send that Representative a flood of money.

It is in our best interest to support the Congress men and women who go to work for THE PEOPLE everyday.

THANK YOU, Representative Grayson!
Republicans deserve to be called out on their OBSTRUCTIONISM.
PLEASE show the rest of our party how it's done!