Grayson On Newsbusters' Offer Of $100 For Someone To Punch Him In The Face, "I Punch Back"

[Turborama]

Run time: 03:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNLxmIIblAo   Posted on YouTube: July 21, 2010 By YouTube Member: RepAlanGrayson Views on YouTube: 135   Posted on DU: July 21, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 3873

 
Grayson also discusses how Gingrich is a disgrace and that the Republican party are a "heartless party" and only offer "Marie Antoinette economics", if they don't have bread, let them eat cake.

"The Republican party is the party that doesn't want to help you. They either want to blame you, or they would want to try to convince you that somehow you'd be better off if nobody helps you. If you have a problem in your life, whatever you may say about the Democratic party, it's your only hope for help. We don't always get it done but at least we're interested in trying. The Republicans couldn't care less, they don't care about you, they don't care about me, they don't care about anybody but themselves".

Full transcript should be added here soon: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32390000/ns/msnbc_tv-the_ed_show/?ns=msnbc_tv-the_ed_show

[xultar]

1. FUCK YEAH!

[Enthusiast]

15. Me too!

:spank: :fistbump: :rofl:

[Francisco]

2. I love Grayson and donated to his campaign..

but to be fair I'll point out that individuals don't pay FUTA taxes businesses do.

[Greenheron]

3. My kind of lib

That's the way I am. Peace above all but go ahead and push this lib(6'3 220) and you might get y'ass kicked.

[Enthusiast]

16. Me too! nt

[Scruffy1]

24. Of course we workers do

FUTA, FICA, and workman's comp are all part of the cost of labor and are treated as the cost of labor. Having been an estimator and construction manager these costs are treated no differently than hourly wage or human resource cost. Labor has to pay for all of it. Just because you don't see it on your check doesn't mean your not paying for it. Labor also pays for supervisory and human resources costs.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. WISH I COULD KICK THIS THREE LAPS AROUND

Every airwave in the country

[Grassy Knoll]

5. Why do teapublicans make it look like.....

It's just democrats looking for work, unemployment knows no party,
but they make it a righty lefty thing, so sad.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Alan Grayson: An ass-kicker, not a boot-licker.

:kick::kick::kick:

[breadandwine]

14. Exactly, DinahMoeHum. "I punch back." This is exactly what is lacking in the rest of our party.

"I punch back," said Grayson in the video.

Where are the other Democrats as Ed asked? Why aren't they acting passionate and PISSED OFF? They are mostly quiet as mice and hiding under the table and in the closet trying to be goody little two-shoes while the GOP continues to punch our lights out. They get angry, they have passion that the angry public relates to and it is the passionate who show up at the polls during midterm elections, since midterm elections are normally poorly attended since there is no presidential race to excite people to go to the polls.

Here's that famous speech from the film, "Network" ----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08&feature=related

Note that Howard is speaking about the depression and the oil crisis. Sound familiar? (Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says we're in a depression RIGHT NOW, not the 1930s kind but the 1870s kind, which had its ups and downs.) Note that Howard is NOT speaking about stupid tea party issues. But today to hear the way the DLC crowd talks, you would think it is some kind of sin to put passion into the political discourse. Grayson is virtually alone in the party while most of the rest are just shuffling along waiting to get pounded in the Fall. We are all supposed to be comatose zombies on prozac wearing smile buttons while the other side punches our lights out day in and day out. Democrats used to get angry but we don't anymore.

So. Do not get emotional. Do not get passionate. Do not fight back. Let the other side win. We can't stoop to their level and we CERTAINLY can't show any guts like Grayson....

[lumpy]

26. Hear hear.

v

[Joe Bacon]

7. GO Grayson go!

Oh, how I would love to see Grayson punch out a right wing asshole! In fact, I'll be glad to send him one of my old canes for that purpose :-)

[msongs]

8. grayson hasnt got the message yet that republicans are just as good as dems, darn it nt

[Ignis]

9. K&R. LOL @ "Marie Antoinette economics"

:kick:

[Jefferson23]

10. What is not true about what he said?

Keep it up Grayson!

[GreenTea]

11. So do I - with any republican thug!

[FirstTimeVoterAt37]

12. Damn, I wish I could vote for Grayson

[myrna minx]

13. I adore him.

:loveya:

[SemperEadem]

17. Love Grayson, but Marie Antoinette did not say that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake


"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly said by a French princess upon learning that the peasants had no bread. As brioche is a luxury bread enriched with eggs and butter, it would reflect the princess's obliviousness to the nature of a famine.

Although commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette,<1> there is no record of these words ever having been uttered by her; they first appear in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, his putative autobiographical work (completed in 1769, when Marie Antoinette was 13), where he wrote the following in Book 6:

Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.

Finally I recalled the last resort of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche."

Rousseau does not name the "great princess" and there is speculation that he invented the anecdote, which has no other sources.<2>

In Chinese culture, there is a variation of this story that involves rice and meat, instead of bread and cake.<3>

[harun]

18. Nice !!!

[chillspike]

19. Nothing like someone 6' 4" on the side of good

We got to get this guy elected President.

K&R'ed

[ProgressOnTheMove]

20. He calls it like he sees it, with Grayson on the team we have in battling chance this November.

[and-justice-for-all]

21. Love it!!! Keep kicking them inthe teeth Grayson!! nt

[LatteLibertine]

22. LMAO

"Rush Limbaugh was more lucid when he was on drugs." - Alan Grayson

[AsahinaKimi]

23. if only there

were more with his backbone.

[TheEuclideanOne]

25. New Tagline: The Republicans put the FU in FUTA

Just thought that would be funny. Sometimes I just crack myself up. :rofl:

[laughingliberal]

27. Marie Antionette economics! Perfect! nt

[BlueMTexpat]

28. Great minds!

Of course, the problem is that most RWers and Tea Baggers probably don't even know who she was.

:hi:

[fascisthunter]

29. Grayson for President