Grayson: Republicans "Chose To Let Those 44,000 People Die, Every Single Year"

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is keeping up his attack on Republicans, after saying that their policy is for Americans to "die quickly" and after calling the health care crisis a "holocaust" -- and now says that the GOP has willfully chosen to let tens of thousands of people without insurance die every year.

In a new fundraising appeal posted by Grayson on Daily Kos, he says:

And now the Republicans claim they are going to introduce a resolution "disapproving" of my behavior.

What is this, junior high school? Do they think my feelings are hurt? Just what do these people think health care means? It's not some abstract "issue", we're talking about life and death! And the Republicans, who ran the government in full or in part from 2001-2009, chose to let those 44,000 people die, every single year when they were in power. And George W. Bush, whom the Republicans somehow pretend was not President for the last eight years, just let them die. He even vetoed health care for poor children.

So apologize? I don't think so.

National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Andy Seré gave us this comment in response: "This is an unstable man who has come unhinged. The depths to which Alan Grayson will sink to defend his indefensible comments know no bounds."