"It's too soon to tell, but there's a good chance that Representative Alan Grayson, he of the "Die Quickly" Republican health care plan, will end up fucking your shit up. Too rich to be bought off, Grayson's been fucking with the powerful for a few years now. As an attorney, he represented whistleblowers, going after the hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud committed by contractors and others in Iraq. He told CNN in April 2006, "The development fund of Iraq was looted by war profiteers and war whores." Check out the huge ass article on him in Vanity Fair from 2007 (and check out that goatee). He went after Halliburton and KBR; he fucked with Dick Cheney. You think a man whose name is a homophone with "boner" is gonna trouble him?" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"But sometimes those kinds of dramatics can be absolutely energizing, like the second shot of cheap tequila, as when Grayson said, "Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers."" - Steven Perez

"It was truly something beautiful because Grayson walked into Wolf Blitzer's house, drank his whiskey, and took a giant shit on CNN's floor. The pundits from Carville to Castellanos to Borger didn't know what the fuck to do with this guy who wasn't going to play by the usual rules of suck up and pander and call for bipartisanship like other Democrats. The closest they've gotten is the occasional Barney Frank appearance, but Grayson is something different, a Democrat who not only has his own balls, but is ripping the nuts off others. "They've been dragging their feet. These -- these are foot dragging, knuckle dragging Neanderthals who think they can dictate policy to America by being stubborn. And I think it's -- the time is over. We had an election. That's it. Now we have to move ahead in just the way the president wants us to," Grayson said, and, oh, the sputtering that happened." - Steven Perez

Grayson for president! - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

I'd settle for just another hundred or so of him in Congress. - Steven Perez

Yes, another 100 or so would be about right. - Ayşe E.

from the CNN transcript, about Grayson: "ALEX CASTELLANOS: I thought I was watching like Ahmadinejad -- one of those guys in the U.N. there." - and there goes any chance I'd ever take Castellanos seriously. - Andrew C (✓)

(pre-apologies for linefeedless formatting) "GRAYSON: Listen, do you want to make sure that people have affordable, universal, comprehensive health care in this country? CASTELLANOS: Yes. GRAYSON: Do you? CASTELLANOS: And that's why I, by the way... GRAYSON: Now, what have you done about it?" - Andrew C (✓)