Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) versus Fox's Yapping Cur-in-Chief

by Damozel | Ha ha ha!  Neil Cavuto:

• calls the Grayson "Pay For Performance" bill (which would set limits on executive compensation paid out of taxpayer dollars) "big brotherish;"
• insists on Grayson joining in his -- Cavuto's -- absurd argument with his own straw man,
• gets hilariously exposed as sound and fury signifying nothing. 

Cavuto's "point" seems to be that the Congressional branch shouldn't enable the executive branch to prevent employees of failed businesses from companies receiving taxpayer money from getting "unreasonable compensation"...and never mind that this is what the executive branch is for, as Grayson pointed out, and what it always does.    

So....watch Neil Cavuto pretend to be all worried about the possibility that Tim Geithner, who is of course head of the Department that makes the actual rules (and enforces them), is going to make a rule that will take away some secretary's salary!  Watch Grayson try to explain separation of powers to Cavuto while Cavuto yaps right over him!  Watch Grayson point out repeatedly that Cavuto's argument has no connection to reality and no bearing on the real issues! 

Grayson:  "Seriously, Neil...are any secretaries getting million dollar bonuses?"  

Watch Grayson say that Cavuto's yapping straw man suffers from "paranoid delusions!" Watch him finally say that Cavuto does!  "This is a paranoid fantasy." 

But.. Grayson also calls out Cavuto for being rude to a guest, which was my only "duh" moment....well, that and the fact that he seemed taken aback that Cavuto couldn't understand the concept of "unreasonable.")   It would have been a more richly delightful experience for the pro-Grayson viewer if Grayson had baited him right back or had focused on Cavuto's interruptions rather than the rudeness. 

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So next time, AG, you bait him right back.  Just keep saying, "So...you're in favor of using taxpayer dollars for executive compensation?" and "Well, Neil, the problem isn't really with my answer, but with your apparent inability to understand it.  And I can't do a lot about that."

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Comments

[Charles]

I could only listen to half of it, even with Grayson's common sense.

I didn't hear Grayson make the obvious talking point: the Congress does not legislate limits for lead and mercury; the EPA does. The Congress does not (nor could it) define exactly what the dividing line between puffery and fraud is; the courts do. The Congress does not set speed limits on federal highways; the Department of Transportation does. The Congress does not write tax tables; the IRS does.

Cavuto is a complete and total moron.

[ConservativeMe]

You guys are morons the government has no business messing with any of this. They should never have bailed out anyone in the first place. They scared everyone with their chicken little mentality and now the government is evermore so getting into the realms they don't belong in. And this notion that it is for the general welfare is a load of crap. They will use this phrase to excuse anything they do no matter how invasive or government growing it may be. So do as all the liberal idiots do and argue small points to avoid the real arguement case in point being yall wil argue about what the congress will let the executive branch do to limit pay the big issue is why is the government interfering in private business anyways. Why do they determine who can fail and who they won't let fail.