Alan “Teacups” Grayson to GOP: “Get out of the way” on health care
posted at 8:03 pm on October 8, 2009 by Allahpundit
I like to imagine he wrote this one in a flash of righteous indignation during Country Bear Jamboree.
An excruciating four minutes, and not really because of the subject matter. Granted, he’s dead wrong about Americans not caring about the vote count in the Senate — independents oppose a Democrat-only bill 62/32 — and granted, only in his sweetest buck-passing dreams is the GOP actually “in the way” given that it lacks the votes even to mount a filibuster. The real problem here is that the guy’s grandstanding shamelessly (note how he looks directly into the camera throughout) but he’s just … not that good at it. I don’t know if it’s his voice or his Nixonian presence or what, but there’s an element of desperation to it that just wouldn’t be there coming from, say, Mark Warner. No matter, though. Joe Wilson’s become a political celebrity while raising a cool $2.7 million from his moment of incivility, and Grayson’s clearly learned the “right” lesson from that. Can’t wait to see what he’s got planned for next week’s performance. Click the image to watch.
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I’m sorry Mr. Whiny… the GOP are in an extreme minority… how are they even remotely in your way?
Blame your own dimwits.
Enoxo on October 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Bully.
javamartini on October 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM
He’s just looking for more doe and this is easier than sending a mass email that most ignore.
txag92 on October 8, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Isn’t this guys 15 minutes up?
ctmom on October 8, 2009 at 8:07 PM
I just.
Can’t.
Mojave Mark on October 8, 2009 at 8:08 PM
You lie
SHARPTOOTH on October 8, 2009 at 8:08 PM
It’s either Obamacare or the whip for you uppity peasants!
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Big Al needs to step aside….
cmsinaz on October 8, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Wilson hit the mark with a comment that mirrored what many felt.
It was genuine.
Grayson is trying to be a cheap knock off. He is no more effective than Jack Cafferty is when he tries to imitate Bill O’Reilly.
He is on minute 14 of his fame.
NeoKong on October 8, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Own it , you got the majority.
the_nile on October 8, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Ditto.
Christian Conservative on October 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM
More and more I just refuse to click on those liberal wankers links you put up there. I’m angry enough, I don’t need to push it. Reading the text is good enough for me to be able to say this guy is a pud pulling jackass.
I’m thinking he imagines he’s going to get re-elected too. I dun tink so. Florida is full of wrinkles he’s trying to turn into room temperature advertisements for death panels by rationing them into the grave. He isn’t getting their vote, unless they’re really stupid.
Spiritk9 on October 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM
You know, democrats are the worst bunch of spineless cowards.
Democrats 2003: Oh, we can’t pass anything because we’re in the minority! Republicans are in the way as the Majority!
Democrats 2005: Oh, we can’t pass anything because we have just a bare Majority! The Republican minority is Obstructing!
Democrats 2009: Oh, we can’t pass anything with our supreme Majority! The Republican extreme minority is obstructing!
Crap, or get off the pot.
Enoxo on October 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Nice to see Orlando elected Goofy to Congress.
William Amos on October 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I can’t quite put my finger on it either. The closest I can come is to say that he is a used car salesman on the 30th of the month, and he’s still about a half dozen cars short of his quota. He really wants you to buy that car, he even needs you to buy that car, but he just can’t seem to give you a good reason why you should buy that car, so he’s just going to insult all his competitors any way he can and hope something sticks.
stldave on October 8, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Surprisingly enough, he’s a non-entity. Especially in a party composed of Maxine Waters and Barney Frank. He’s not even around the next term, so who really cares?
Apologetic California on October 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM
It’s time to kick that boy’s sorry ass.
We will not be moved.
BottomLine5 on October 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Why can’t we just neutralize the word “TEA BAGGER”, like so many in the Black community have…
As in…. “BAGGA’ pleeeeeez!”
Think how much fun that would be….
seejanemom on October 8, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Fair minded Americans could careless if this is a partisan bill. They want health care and they want it now. They are tired of being ripped off by insurance companies. They are tired of being denied health care insurance because of manufactured pre conditions. Why can’t you Cons get that through your backward thinking heads?
Afrolib on October 8, 2009 at 8:14 PM
He likes the raw attention a little to much , reality show.
the_nile on October 8, 2009 at 8:14 PM
The silent majority says — You shall not pass!
jhffmn on October 8, 2009 at 8:15 PM
If it was so , why the hesitation.
the_nile on October 8, 2009 at 8:15 PM
All liberals have is their hatred. And when you only have one tool, you use it on everything.
JohnJ on October 8, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Is it me or would he look better with a unibrow? Something about the face…
karl9000 on October 8, 2009 at 8:17 PM
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except for Congress.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 8:17 PM
You aren’t even REAL.
Ignorance as splendid as yours is rare and curious. Please take yourself to the nearest museum and place yourself in a tank marked, “UNMITIGATED ASSHOLE”.
Be gone.
seejanemom on October 8, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Polling data suggests the above comment is 47% wishful thinking, 40% MSNBC spoonfed crap, and 13% manifest idiocy.
jhffmn on October 8, 2009 at 8:18 PM
It’s not enough for liberals to pass health care reform, they want Republicans to support it.
JohnJ on October 8, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Thieves!
OldEnglish on October 8, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Afrolib on October 8, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Sorry to break the news to you Afrojib but, All the fair minded americans are conservative, So put that crack your smok’in down and come back to reality.
SHARPTOOTH on October 8, 2009 at 8:20 PM
did that roadkill on his head receive health insurance?
lavell12 on October 8, 2009 at 8:20 PM
I’m reminded of the Inquisition, where it wasn’t enough to kill the witches. The witches had to be grateful for it. That’s why they resorted to torture.
JohnJ on October 8, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Made it all of 30 seconds. It is clear this overweight guy in a cheap suit and ugly tie is nothing but a partisan hack.
Fact of the matter is that Olympia Snowe is crucial to the filthy lying coward in the White House. He needs her to call any of this “bipartisan.” I’m sure the folks in Maine must be thrilled to know that a rat bastard from Orlando thinks they don’t matter. Perhaps they should boycott Disney.
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:21 PM
FIFY
Just keepin’ it real.
ROCnPhilly on October 8, 2009 at 8:21 PM
You know what? Most Americans do not support an overhaul of the entire health care system.
And the truth is if Democrats could come up with a plan they have the votes to pass it. There is no reason to blame Republicans for the incompetence of the Democratic leadership.
Terrye on October 8, 2009 at 8:21 PM
You are not even REAL.
Ignorance as splendid as yours is rarely found in bipeds that can wipe themselves without assistance.
Congratulations.
seejanemom on October 8, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Why can’t you whiney Dems just… pass the damn thing? You have the numbers.
Just. Do. It.
And stop blaming others for your pathetic failures. It’s not pretty.
karl9000 on October 8, 2009 at 8:21 PM
You don’t need the cons dimmest of dim
CWforFreedom on October 8, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Florida isn’t called “God’s waiting room” for nothing.
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:23 PM
mad dog alert
John the Libertarian on October 8, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Hey Afrolib, the only ones making out with Obamacare are the insurance companies. You show me how that plan, whatever it is, benefits any of us, especially after Nancy puts up her VAT tax!
ctmom on October 8, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Afrolib is a dim as our congressmen . He does not care what is in the bill . He wants anything and does not care about its costs for effects.
CWforFreedom on October 8, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I’m confused.
Isn’t Grayson just the Mr. Hyde alter-ego of Rick Sanchez over at BSNBC??
dissent555 on October 8, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Tempest in a teacup. Go flap your fat mouth to the bathroom mirror, Grayson, then at least ONE person will give a flying rip.
Dark-Star on October 8, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Oooof…I made it a minute.
I thought some of the liberal posters here were dumb, but this guy, wow.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 8:27 PM
The magic 8 ball says “you’re a lying turd. Lazy crack heads like you have ripped me off far more often than insurance companies. Yet miraculously like Polanski, Murtha, Rangel, and others in your party of rape and corruption you avoid accountability.
jdkchem on October 8, 2009 at 8:27 PM
I could swear I saw him on TV about 3 am chasing ambulances.
CWforFreedom on October 8, 2009 at 8:28 PM
I expect you to start up an insurance company, and then sign up (for a reasonable fee naturally) every newly diagnosed cancer patient after they find out. Then start paying for their $1,000 weekly treatments out of your company reserves from day one of their fresh minty new policy for which they have not sent in their first payment.
Get it now? Nobody would have insurance. Why bother if you can sign up after the diagnosis. Only a chump would pay for something they literally would not need.
WitchDoctor on October 8, 2009 at 8:28 PM
1. Because none of what you say is fact-based.
2. Because we prefer market-based solutions to your nanny-state takeover of health care.
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Why don’t you move to Massawhatsis as they have a trial run of ObamaCare going there.
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 8:29 PM
I ain’t clicking on that crap.
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 8:30 PM
I think you mean “care less.” Big difference moron.
This statement is simply not true. The productive tax-paying citizens that have health insurance are relatively happy. It’s the ghetto-dwellers and welfare culture mentality of those unwilling to work for a living, the illegals who shouldn’t be here, and the unproductive of society who are demanding that somebody else pay for them to have better options than showing up at the free clinic.
The free clinic is too good for these people. They want health insurance the message should be for them to get a job and start paying thier way instead of taking without returning anything to society.
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:30 PM
We have enough trouble, without adding him, thanks!
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Maybe that’s it. If it is just desperation that is driving him then the used car salesman fits. But you’re right. He seems to enjoy himself while he makes a arse out of himself. Maybe he’s the failed weekend/overnight shock jock on radio that worships Howard Stern, but has to buy his own airtime. I don’t know, but I don’t think he is long for this job. Maybe after he’s done he can partner with Ed Shultz and they can go on air in front of a couple thousand people and watch each others heads explode. They’d be perfect for each other.
stldave on October 8, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Wise choice.
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:31 PM
No doubt a one-termer. He’s just auditioning for that coveted 5-6 slot on MSNBC.
JammieWearingFool on October 8, 2009 at 8:32 PM
When Granny’s sent home with some pills in a plastic bag
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Obama will give her a hearty high five then
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The Emanuels will cheer, the Kevorkians will shout
The eugenicists they will all turn out
And the old folks will all be dead by Christmas time next year!
Get ready for the Ezekiel Emanuel Jubilee
Hurrah! Hurrah!
He’ll give Herr Obama three times three
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The Doctor of Life and Death degree is ready now
To place upon Herr Obama’s Godly brow
And he will feel so happy and gay
When Pallbearers carry Grandma and Grandpa to the funeral home
Cheshire Cat on October 8, 2009 at 8:32 PM
He’s scruffy and unkempt-looking; kind of like a salesman at one of those “buy-here pay-here, we tote the note” lots that crop up around military installations.
uncivilized on October 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Fair minded to you means that someone who has busted their ass for 30 years in the workforce should be willing to give up more so someone who hasn’t busted their ass for 30 years can be on the same economic level. Take a hike. You nor the government is going to be taking my hard earned money for yet more handouts.
Patrick S on October 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM
They have a super-majority in congress, they should go ahead and pass it. Go ahead – do it and stop whining about it.
The truth is democrats don’t have the balls to pass it on their own because they’ll have to own it then. Every. Last. Bit. Of. It. It’s theirs.
Too bad it’ll bankrupt the rest of the country.
Intrepid on October 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Alan Grayson or afrolib?
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Better than 60% oppose health reform.
Your “fair minded” Americans are an ever-shrinking minority, and the numbers get worse, the more the proposals are critically examined.
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM
The party of no accountability. They have the White House, Congress and a far to willing propaganda machine and their stuck because they’re cowards unwilling to accept responsibility for the crap sandwich their trying to serve up.
At what point do “fair minded” Americans send these clowns back home?
jdkchem on October 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Yes.
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM
A-lib is just a ‘curr dog’.
thomasaur on October 8, 2009 at 8:35 PM
does anyone know that this gut lost 37 million in a Ponzi scheme?
rob verdi on October 8, 2009 at 8:35 PM
This guy needs a vacation.
JellyToast on October 8, 2009 at 8:35 PM
With the way this guy is mugging for the camera he is soon going to trip over his own ego.
What’s it going to be? Underage male prostitute? Snorting coke off his mistress’s anatomy in his Congressional office?
If there is a lesson to be learned from Spitzer and Sanford the louder one campaigns about morality the more sleezy you are in reality.
Hyunchback on October 8, 2009 at 8:35 PM
I wouldn’t underestimate the collective stupidity of any voting bloc. Democrats have been leaning on them for time untold.
gryphon202 on October 8, 2009 at 8:36 PM
If true, then good. No sympathy.
massrighty on October 8, 2009 at 8:36 PM
I LOVE this Grayson character. He needs to have his House speeches televised, every single day. He is the best! So much stupidity and arrogance thrown so proudly on display. It’s beautiful!
“America doesn’t care about your feelings.”
I guess Grayson isn’t on the ‘empathy’ bandwagon. The Traitor-in-Chief will not be happy to hear that. Feelings are everything, these days. The Constitution comes second to feelings.
More Grayson!
progressoverpeace on October 8, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Permanently.
Knucklehead on October 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM
yes
John the Libertarian on October 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Well I’m going for the first Tuesday of November, 2010. Who’s with me, Ladies and Gentlemen?!
HUZZAH!
gryphon202 on October 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM
I LOVE this Grayson character. He needs to have his House speeches televised, every single day. He is the best! So much stupidity and arrogance thrown so proudly on display. It’s beautiful!
“America doesn’t care about your feelings.”
I guess Grayson isn’t on the ‘empathy’ bandwagon. The Traitor-in-Chief will not be happy to hear that. Feelings are everything, these days. The Constitution comes second to feelings.
More Grayson!
progressoverpeace on October 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Well I’m going for the first Tuesday of November, 2010. Who’s with me, Ladies and Gentlemen?!
HUZZAH!
gryphon202 on October 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM
That sums it up pretty well. They won’t be able to blame anyone – they won’t have “inherited” it from anyone else. And they don’t want that.
uncivilized on October 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM
yes
John the Libertarian on October 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM
This thing is going to pass and we are about to suffer an epic wallet-savaging, I just hope that Grayson and his ilk reap what they sow.
Bishop on October 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM
I know plenty of people that live in that district. I’ll work hard to persuade them all to go out and vote this man out of office. It will be a labor of love.
jdflorida on October 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Bumper sticker of the day! I’m saving it!
lovingmyUSA on October 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM
So he’s stupid on top of everything else?
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:39 PM
I can’t even watch this tool. Someone please, please put him back in his Barney suit.
Geronimo on October 8, 2009 at 8:39 PM
He looks like the guy who would play the retarded adult on some hour long network tv drama.
clearbluesky on October 8, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Fixed. Now run along, Soros wants a refund for your epic fail.
ya2daup on October 8, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Isn’t this the guy from Daily Kos?
keep the change on October 8, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Do they honestly believe that getting 1 or 2 republican votes makes this a bi-partisan effort? They have been shut out of the whole deal- is there one idea that came from the R’s?
TheVer on October 8, 2009 at 8:44 PM
The filter finally decided it will allow me to call AfroLib an a$$hole.
Excellent.
seejanemom on October 8, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Grayson is making himself more and more a candidate for a good swift kick in the teeth.
I would very much like to offer him a nice piping hot cup of SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
Truth be told, this assclown is no longer funny.
pilamaye on October 8, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Do not imagine for a moment, Mr. Allahpundit, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than President Barack Obama and Representative Alan Grayson that America’s citizens should have the freedom to control their own health care. They would be only too happy to let them do so, but sometimes America’s citizens might chose to extend the lives of their no longer productive and tax paying parents who are just a burden on the state or choose to save their children who just exhale way too much carbon with all their running around and might not vote democrat when they grow up anyway, Mr. Allahpundit, and then where would we be?
Cheshire Cat on October 8, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Yeah, this guy is a clown. But, so what; the over-whelming majority of politicians -left and right- are utter tools. It’s the people that vote for an obvious asshat like this that I want to neuter.
Doorgunner on October 8, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Grayson, quit your childish grandstanding and pass your stupid socialist health care bill without us. You never needed the GOP with your majorities. What is your freaking point.
hawkdriver on October 8, 2009 at 8:47 PM
The reason why the pugs are being blamed is because the far right extremist who are being represented by conservative democrats are causing these soft con dems to waver over a bill that would benefit all Americans.
These far right extremist(most of which hang out on this blog) do not care about America. They only care about being in power and forcing everyone else to go along with their backward ideology.
Well bad news cons, the boat has sailed. We can do healthcare reform without you. It will pass. The question is will it pass with a robust PO or without.
Afrolib on October 8, 2009 at 8:49 PM
My guess. The bastard is attempting to set himself up as a candidate for the Florida Senate seat that is coming open. Making this insane rant will help him among Florida Democrats.
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Clearly the boat hasn’t sailed. If it had, the Democratic party wouldn’t be stopped by… their own… as you point out.
MeatHeadinCA on October 8, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Afrolib is DeathToMediaHacks.
hawkdriver on October 8, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Why Government Can’t Run a Business
The Obama administration is bent on becoming a major player in — if not taking over entirely — America’s health-care, automobile and banking industries. Before that happens, it might be a good idea to look at the government’s track record in running economic enterprises. It is terrible.
In 1913, for instance, thinking it was being overcharged by the steel companies for armor plate for warships, the federal government decided to build its own plant. It estimated that a plant with a 10,000-ton annual capacity could produce armor plate for only 70% of what the steel companies charged.
When the plant was finally finished, however — three years after World War I had ended — it was millions over budget and able to produce armor plate only at twice what the steel companies charged. It produced one batch and then shut down, never to reopen.
Or take Medicare. Other than the source of its premiums, Medicare is no different, economically, than a regular health-insurance company. But unlike, say, UnitedHealthcare, it is a bureaucracy-beclotted nightmare, riven with waste and fraud. Last year the Government Accountability Office estimated that no less than one-third of all Medicare disbursements for durable medical equipment, such as wheelchairs and hospital beds, were improper or fraudulent. Medicare was so lax in its oversight that it was approving orthopedic shoes for amputees.
These examples are not aberrations; they are typical of how governments run enterprises. There are a number of reasons why this is inherently so. Among them are:
- more -
MB4 on October 8, 2009 at 8:53 PM
That’s always been the case. But not all rats are onboard the SS Obamacare. They know voting for state seizure of healthcare means that they won’t be returning to Washington in January 2011. This is really a squabble among the rats.
highhopes on October 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM
This bozo is running for president in 2016 right now.
paulsur on October 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM
But we’re really, really skeered that we might be called to account.
ya2daup on October 8, 2009 at 8:56 PM
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