About an hour ago, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (Orlando, Fl) conceded to his opponent, Daniel Webster. Alan was the one Dem I thought we'd actually get to keep.
Before Congress, Alan spent years fighting government-contractor fraud, which has cost (and still costs) us taxpayers billions upon billions of dollars each year. [See Vanity Fair article.]
Ironically, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel indicated that Webster’s appeal stemmed from his sticking to “the issues worrying the Republican base: federal spending and borrowing.”
It’s ironic that the lower-earning members of the Republican base are now chanting about federal spending/borrowing. They weren’t chanting about it when George W. Bush was in office, wildly borrowing and spending and funneling money to folks who already had truckloads of it (e.g., defense contractors and bankers).
I wonder if most lower-earning members of the GOP knew, in 2008, what the national debt was—compared to what it had been when Mr. Bush took the White House. Incidentally, it about $5.7 trillion when Mr. Bush took office and about $10.6 trillion when he left. Ergo, under Mr. Bush’s watch, the national debt almost doubled. [See the U.S. debt page.]
Even more ironic is that the lower-earning members of all political parties are among those whose interests Alan Grayson fought to protect.
I just don't know what to say about that.
You DO understand that the DEMOCRATS have controlled BOTH houses of Congress since 2006?
So who then is responsible for the debt in 2008 . . .ANYONE . .?
Posted by: marvintherobot | November 03, 2010 at 09:36 PM
One of the best ways to fight contractor fraud from congress is TO SHRINK THE AMOUNT AVAILABLE TO SPEND ON IT. If Grayson truly cared about this issue he would have done well to drop the Democratic party and run as an independent.
Posted by: daniel noe | November 08, 2010 at 05:55 PM
Couldn't have happened to a better politically correct anti-semite.
Posted by: fairlynaked | November 14, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Grayson is a great populist, sadly in a state which is full of people too distracted by phony wedge issues...
Oh, we do understand who controlled the Congress, the fillibuster and the BANKS
or did you not notice???
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Is this the loudmouth that was always seen ranting, interrupting and talking over anyone who disagreed with him?
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