Alan Grayson Doubles Down - Apologizes to the Dead, not Republicans

[alsame]

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson generated conservative anger with a speech last night in which he said, in regard to the GOP health care plan, "Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick." (Watch it at left.)

The comment prompted calls for Grayson to apologize from Republicans and the threat of the introduction of a resolution of disapproval on the House floor similar to the resolution censuring Republican Rep. Joe Wilson for his "you lie!" outburst at President Obama.

Now Grayson has apologized – though it's probably not going to placate his critics. On the House floor this afternoon, the confrontational Florida representative said he wanted to apologize because according to a Harvard study, more than 44,000 Americans die every year because they lack health insurance.

"That is ten times more than the number of Americans who have died in Iraq and who died in 9/11," he continued. "But that was just once. This is every single year. That's right. Every single year."

"I call upon the Democratic members of the House, I call upon the Republican members of the House, I call upon all of us to do our jobs for the sake of America, for the sake of those dying people and their families," he went on to say. "I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/30/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5354012.shtml

[mikelgb]

1. sweet, and he dropped the H-bomb to boot

[DrToast]

7. I like it. I mean, what else should we call 44,000 people dying needlessly each year?

[truedelphi]

14. Agree totally. When you think about it, what happens is that the sick and the marginal are

Most at risk.

If you are young and healthy, you can be insured. It is only the people who have pre-existing conditions who cannot be insured. So they have to somehow find a job wherein they get benefits (Hard to do if you are not healthy) and stayon that job whether they like it or not.

Also everyone's chances of being unemployed and without insurance benefits gets worse as they get into their forties and fifties. So then not only are you unemployed, you cannot affrod medical treatment. So any illness gets worse, as the visit to the doctors is delayed, et cetera.

Of course, as Alan Grayson suggests, you could have the decency to follow the Repug's game plan - since you re sick and marginalized, die early!

[Ineeda]

2. Great apology - now don't back down, Congressman. n/t

[AspenRose]

3. That's how you do it

[jenmito]

4. Good! The Repubs. said worse things on the floor about "Obamacare" killing people. n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. Alan Grayson's Act Blue Page

If you like you Democrats to show some spine, maybe you should be showing Rep Grayson some appreciation

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/18665

[alsame]

12. Just donated, thanks for the link. nt

[uponit7771]

16. Yeap, good beer money donated from me... no doubt

[Cali_Democrat]

6. I love this guy. nt

[JBoy]

8. Fuckin' A. Need to get passionate about it.

The numbers don't lie.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, you don't apologize to Liars and Fearmongers

who would destroy our country if they had their way.

[alsame]

10. Ha, Tweety now showing clips of Repubs saying the Dem plan

will kill people and saying there's no distinction.

[flamingdem]

11. FINALLY somebody said it, Americans are dying and it is the fault of congress nt

[DeadElephant_ORG]

13. now THAT is what I call a fighting Dem! n/t

[depakid]

15. At least someone in the party's willing to tell it like it is

The administration and the so called "leadership" are timid to the point of disingenuousness. Even when Obama tries- LOL- he can't help himself and says: "but they're good people."

Yep- they're mass murderers who cause untold suffering and corrupt the political process to pad their pockets- "but they're good people."

[samsingh]

18. well said.

[samsingh]

17. i love this man

[Leo The Cleo]

19. Yikes. My man is on point.

Yikes.

[mvd]

20. I love his attitude

Too often, the Repukes aren't called out for what they do and believe.