Ever since he explained that “Die Quickly” is the key feature of the Republican Health care Plan for the poor and middle classes, I have been a fan of Alan Grayson. That’s what gave me the idea for “The RepubliCare Death Benefit”. He has written a highly interesting piece about how he is being attacked by a website popular with the Republican base. Here’s a taste:
Yesterday I had the temerity, the gall, the (dare I say it?) chutzpah to point out that for the past five months, every single elected Republican in Congress was a white Christian.
The Nazis are not pleased. Frankly, I have never been a favorite of theirs, but now they are really pissed off.
The “white nationalists” congregate at an online watering hole called Stormfront.org. The home page, in Fraktur font (look it up), proudly boast that “Every Month is White History Month”. Stormfront.org is famous for, among other things, trying to dictate the results of a Fox News online poll on racial segregation, because it takes one to know one, or something like that.
Lest you think that this is a non-serious matter, please be advised that according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Stormfront members have murdered almost 100 people during the past five years alone. No Members of Congress yet, though.
So yesterday at Stormfront, under the heading “News,” subheading “Politics & Continuing Crises,” there popped up a report called “Jew revealed: Florida Rep. Alan Grayson attacks GOP as the party of white Christians.”
The writer explained his sad tale: “I tried to unsubscribe before[,] yet this Jew keeps sending me his lunatic Europhobic and anti-Christian rant that reeks of atavistic hatred.” [Note to neo-Nazis: Punctuation has a purpose. Use it properly.]
Talk about “atavistic hatred.” He didn’t call me a schweinhund. But he wanted to. I could tell…
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Please click through. There's lots more.
Those Stormfront Republicans sure were fast to jump to defend their party of choice.
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The Grredy Olde Pharts don't like the truth. Alan Grayson is like a young Bernie Sanders. Keep telling it like it is.
I love Grayson and have for some time. But this is the column that when I read it inspired me to click "follow." Incidentally he is the ONLY Kossack I have ever followed, though there are many who write well and truly. If doing this doesn't overwhelm me, I may start following Jesse Greco, but I am holding off since I don't yet know what "following" on Kos entails.
From a relatively old Kossak (joined 8/5/07), Following just lets you access their posts more easily.
Just go to your own "Home Page" at DK, and then click on "Following" – and you'll get a list of all those you're following. You can re-order alphabetically, or by the number of Diaries/Posts each has written, or by the number of Comments each has received, or by Date of last Diary/Post.
OR you can click "My Stream" and you'll get a list of the latest Diaries/Posts by the people you follow.
Oh, thank you, Nameless. That helps. You are a fount of information and generous with it.
Hey, Tom. Just to let you know that I have not been neglecting you. Have been having some health issues. I am better now and will try to do better.
Glad you are back and feeling better. Hugzzz, Jim.
The more I hear from Grayson (including a teleconference I participated in about a year ago) the more I respect and appreciate him.
Rep. Alan Grayson
Here is a sample of his thinking.
This came in my email yesterday.
Dear Jim:
This is a statement that I made at a D.C. news conference on trade policy last Thursday:
Trade is a simple concept. You sell me yours, and I'll sell you mine.
That's not what's happening.
What's happening is that day after day, month after month, and year after year, Americans are buying goods and services manufactured by foreigners, and those foreigners are not buying goods and services manufactured by Americans. We are creating millions — no — tens of millions of jobs in other countries with our purchasing power, and we are losing tens of millions of jobs in our country, because foreigners are not buying our goods and services.
What are they doing? They're buying our assets.
So we lose twice. We lose the jobs, and we are driven deeper and deeper into national debt – and, ultimately, national bankruptcy. That is the end game.
This is not free trade; it's fake trade. We have fake trade.
That's why before NAFTA was enacted and went into effect, this country never had a trade deficit as much as $140 billion a year, while every single year since then — for 20 years now — we have had a trade deficit of over $140 billion a year.
We have had a[n average annual] trade deficit of half a billion dollars now, for the past 14 years.
Look back all across history. Look all across Planet Earth. You will see that the 14 largest trade deficits in the history of mankind are – all [of them] — the American trade deficits for the last 14 years.
(I cannot rule out the possibility that somewhere on Alpha Centauri there might be a country that has a larger trade deficit. But here on Planet Earth, no.)
Listen, we are in a deep, deep hole, thanks to fake trade. Thanks to fake trade, right now, 1/7th of all the assets in this country — every business, every plot of land, every car – 1/7th of all the assets in the country are now owned by foreigners. And ultimately, if we keep going the way we're going, they all will be.
That's why we have the most unequal distribution of income [among all industrial nations] in our country, [and] the most unequal distribution of wealth in our history.
We're in a deep, deep hole. And there's a simple rule about holes: When you're in a hole, stop digging. Stop digging!
So I'm calling upon our leaders. I'm calling upon the American people. Let's stop digging.
Let's not only have a trade policy. For once, let's also have a trade deficit policy.
Let's deal with the reality that has robbed the American Middle Class now for decades. Let's address it, and let's defeat it. That's what I'm calling [for], right now.
Let's stop digging deeper. Let's raise ourselves up, let's climb out of this hole, and rebuild the American Middle Class. Thank you very much.
Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson
If you would like to see the video speech: LINK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UnSEIpcVxKw
No TPP…!
Thanks Jim,
He speaks truth!
Jim, thanks for sharing Grayson's analogy of the trade fiasco. I have followed Grayson for along time and really like his political and policy views. We cannot afford to have the republicans destroy him.
I know very little about Grayson, but after reading this article and the one Jim posted, I plan to learn more.
Grayson gets his point across with humour, but I seriously doubt the Greedy Oold Pharts truly understand him.
Back from prison. Great meeting.
I object to the last word in this sentence "Yesterday I had the temerity, the gall, the (dare I say it?) chutzpah to point out that for the past five months, every single elected Republican in Congress was a white Christian." – it should read "Christian" – those blighters follow NONE of Christ's tenets!
God bless and protect Rep Alan Grayson – he gives us hope! NO TPP!!