This is an interesting video clip of him on CNN. He doesn’t back down from his statements and does a pretty good job making his point.
None whatsoever.
This guy is my new hero. The Democrats have to realize that they won the election and should start acting like it. Tom DeLay made his name by being unabashedly Republican, and keeping the other Republicans in line. We need someone like Grayson to take that role (legal problems aside, of course)
Fuck no! He should be shouting it from the rooftops. Screw the Republicans. They get no apology from anyone for anything until they renounce the fringes of their base.
I watched the clip of his presentation last night, and couldn’t tell - were there any Republicans in the room at the time? Because if there were, it seemed like last night they were able to bite their tongues and avoid yelling “you lie!” at Grayson during his speech. I wonder why they were able to maintain their sense of decorum and good behavior during a speech in which they were being accused of wanting sick people to die, but seemingly incapable of maintaining the same decorum during a speech in which they were being told that health care money would not go to illegal immigrants.
I can only assume that the chamber was empty of Republicans at the time, for surely being accused of wanting sick people to die quickly would have infuriated them as much, if not more, than being told they were incorrect about health care and illegal immigrants?
Fallacy of exclusion. The Republicans could have simpy learned from Wilson’s lesson, and remained silent to avoid censure or reprimand.
Assumes facts not in evidence; that Republicans can learn. Objection overruled.
I think, to the contrary, he should call for an end to the Republican claim to be “pro-life” since that’s essentially saying that anyone favoring abortion is “anti-life.” Bravo to him.
A serious problem has been that the Republicans have been the master of the one-liner on complex issues, a one-liner that distorts and convolutes. The only option to staying in Iraq is to “cut and run,” you may recall. And so on. The Democratic response is usually a long, drawn out, thoughtful analysis of the multiple options. So, Bravo. It’s about time the Democrats came up with some one-line slogans that can appeal to (and be remembered by) the non-thinking public.
I think the comments make me think of him as the Sarah Palin of the Democrats.
I don’t believe he broke any House rule by saying such an outrageous thing, but he should make amends for saying such an offensive, stupid thing.
What’s offensive or stupid about it?
I don’t think it was offensive at all. I think its funny that he was the first person on television to mention (at least that I saw) that the Republican plan held up during the President’s speech to the joint session was blank. I had read that in a paper, but I think that I am probably one of the five people in Texas that reads the newspaper.
If they don’t have a plan worth a shit, call them out on it. This is back to LBJ style of being a Democrat. Whip it out!
I wish I had no waiting times like you. I had to wait months for an appointment with a specialist for skin cancer. It seems they were booked in advance. When I call my doctor ,I have to make an appointment at least 3 weeks in advance. When you have a problem you have to first go see a GP. Then he has to recommend a specialist. They of course are booked. So it takes months to get the job done.
We don’t have enough doctors. We limit the number that can get in med school. We create an artificial shortage to make sure they make a ton of money.
Hell, no! It’s about time a Democrat actually showed some spine. And his performance on Situation Room was superb…the Villagers are all idiots, and I’m happy that someone finally treated them like it.
Alan Grayson 2016!
I don’t see it. The death of 45,000 people a day can be accurately described as “a holocaust”, with a lower case “h”. The way he used it did not imply the (upper case) Holocaust. I’m sure Representative Grayson knows the difference between the two usages - his Wikipedia pagestates that his religion is “Jewish”.
I don’t know, why did it take me 2 months to schedule a follow-up mammogram when my first once came back suspicious? (still waiting for that appointment, by the way, and the only reason I’m not freaking out is that my mother has to have follow-up mammograms every single time due to density of breast tissue).
Several people on this board have posted about long wait times to see not only specialists for treatment, but also their primary care physicians.
Surely you’re aware that wait times for health care exist in America?
Nah…Weiner/Grayson 2016!
Not to mention the INFINITE wait times for the large number of uninsured and uninsurable (with present practices) people in this country. You have to wait 9 months? How about the guy who has to wait 5 years or 10 years or until his arthritis gets so bad that he can’t even walk because he has no insurance and can’t get any because he has arthritis (a pre-existing condition)?
On a different note,
I just mailed Rep. Grayson a letter. This is the first time I have ever mailed a letter to a politican.
[ His address can be found at the Congressional web site ]
I told him thanks for keeping the feet on the fire over health care and thanks for his remark about Big Healthcare’s influence in stalling change and reform on The Situation Room.
Personally, I would have described the Republican plan (and the status quo) as “Don’t get sick unless you’re wealthy. If you do choose to get sick anyway, on your head be it.”
I did research it. I read your cite. Nothing about how dying quickly “works for the UK” as you implied. Can you provide such a cite?
And please do it quickly, my parents are UK pensioners and therefore they must be up before the Death Panel soon. I’d like to know if I should kiss 'em goodbye before they go.