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Americans are living in what Confucius might term interesting times.

Legislation that in earlier days might very well have sprung from the mind of Benito Mussolini or Fidel Castro is being debated on the floor of the House of Representatives right now. (live video stream available at CSPAN)

The bill, HR1664, is sponsored by Rep. Alan Grayson, and would impose limits on compensation for "all employees -- not just top executives -- of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government," in the words of Byron York of the Washington Examiner.

Grayson is a member of the extremist Congressional Progressive Caucus, which until fairly recently was run by Rep. Barbara Lee, a Marxist who once betrayed her country. (Lee was co-chair of the CPC with fellow California Democrat, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, whose primary qualification to be a congresswoman is the fact that she was once a single mother on welfare.)

This Mussolini-style corporatist legislation handing President Obama's bumbling Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extensive control over salaries of employees who work for businesses that take in government bailout funds was approved by Barney Frank's House Financial Services Committee last week on a 38 to 22 vote.

Grayson appeared on Fox yesterday and evaded question after question about this MASSIVE power grab of a bill, but Neil Cavuto wouldn't put up with it and ripped him to shreds. Watch the clip:

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Bill Bailey| 4.1.09 @ 5:42PM

WORST. CONGRESS. EVER.

Andrew| 4.1.09 @ 6:04PM

Wow. According to your own link, Barbara Lee "betrayed her country" by working for a guy who allowed the Cuban government to vet a report about an airport in Grenada. Um. That's pretty weak. And now Grayson is part of the same caucus that used to be run by the woman who blah blah for the guy blah blah airport. ...Even weaker. How about just talking about the legislation and skipping the game of Six Degrees of Separation?

Pingback| 4.1.09 @ 6:21PM

Neil Cavuto Clobbers Sponsor of Radical Pay-Limit Bill — But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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althusius| 4.1.09 @ 6:32PM

You got it backwards. Neil Cavuto made a fool of himself. Cavuto is a shill for the bandits on Wall Street.

Thomas| 4.1.09 @ 6:59PM

Grayson may have a point. Let's start by forcing Congress to work for $48,000.00 a year with a bonus to be decided by the shareholders in America; us. But, under no circumstances should they ever be allowed to make over $100.000.00 a year.

ruth| 4.1.09 @ 7:39PM

I saw this 'interview' on Cavuto's show. Man, that Grayson guy is slimy. Smug, too. I felt sorry for Neil, he doesn't usually get that angry, (Neil has health issues). Yesterday, Glenn Beck wiped the floor up with Connecticut's AG, too. Spanked him good. Try to see that little tete-a-tete, if you can--it's worth it.

ruth| 4.1.09 @ 7:42PM

Uh, Andrew--what six degrees of separation? They're all liberal DEMOCRATS! The left's stupidity never fails to amaze me.

Bill Bailey| 4.1.09 @ 9:47PM

Hey, Andrew. Dumbass, it looks like you didn't read everything in the Barbara Lee link. The linked page leads to an article called
The Congressional Progressive Caucus:
Fringe-Left Democrats Wield New Influence
By Cheryl K. Chumley
It's at www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1185994521.pdf
That reports says:

Writing about Lee’s hold-out vote less than a week after September 11, conservative critic David Horowitz called Lee “an anti-American communist who supports America’s enemies and has actively collaborated with them in their war against America.”
Horowitz should know whereof he speaks. A
former Berkeley leftist, he has recalled meeting
Lee in the 1970s at the Oakland headquarters
of Black Panthers chieftain Huey Lewis.
Horowitz noted that in the 1980s Lee’s boss,
Ron Dellums, had a top security clearance
because he was chairman of the House Armed
Services subcommittee on military installations.
When in 1983 U.S. forces liberated the Caribbean island nation of Grenada from a Marxist dictatorship, they uncovered official
documents showing how Dellums collaborated
with Grenada’s Castro-backed rulers.
Following a fact-finding mission to Grenada,
Dellums certified that its new airport, constructed
with Cuban assistance, was no threat to U.S. security because it could not be used for Cuban and Soviet military planes.
According to Wall Street Journal columnist
John Fund, Dellums’s office “prepared a report
on the trip and asked for the Marxist regime to vet it, according to documents from a meeting of the communist government’s politburo that American troops captured.”
“‘Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought with her a report on the international airport done by Ron Dellums,’ the documents read. ‘They have requested that we look at the document and suggest any changes we deem necessary. They will be willing to make changes.’ The meeting documents go on to discuss possible military uses
of the airfield,” noted Fund.
“If this is not treason, what is?” asked
Horowitz.

Bill Bailey| 4.1.09 @ 9:49PM

Dumbass, here is more on Barbara Lee the communist:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=936

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=6BCF9E6A-6C55-411A-9DD8-145E97FD8740

Trackback| 4.1.09 @ 9:55PM

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Neil Cavuto Clobbers Sponsor of Radical Pay-, on PunditKix, links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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ruth| 4.1.09 @ 10:07PM

So many idiot liberals--so little time. Man, I wish this nightmare would end so I could wake up.

Bill Bailey| 4.1.09 @ 10:26PM

Ruth, it's only going to end when we throw these kooks of out power. The backlash is building. People still support Obama but are very uneasy about the increase in the national debt, pollsters say. It looks grim but there is hope.

ruth| 4.1.09 @ 10:30PM

Yeah, but I think it's gonna get rough, you know? It's surreal.

Bill Bailey| 4.1.09 @ 11:01PM

Yeah. There will be civil disturbances from coast to coast I fear. If you don't have a gun, get one.

Oakland 1968| 4.2.09 @ 10:07AM

Bill Bailey: a little correction. It was Huey Newton who was the Black Pig, er, Panther. Huey Lewis is the Marxist with the guitar.

Bill Bailey| 4.2.09 @ 11:01AM

Oakland, I never noticed that mistake in the article. Funny!

tonypal| 4.2.09 @ 11:20AM

Fascism on the march in the form of a Congressman. Truly frightening.

KevlarKevin| 4.2.09 @ 6:10PM

Rep. Alan Grayson seems like a really shifty guy. He can't even give a straight answer to a simple question.

heiferhopper| 4.3.09 @ 8:47AM

www.warroom.com

KevlarKevin:

Of course not; name one Democrap that can give a straight answer. If they did, they would unwittingly reveal who they really are (just look at Barney Fwank). Anyone who votes for them is a fool...

heiferhopper| 4.3.09 @ 8:47AM

www.warroom.com

KevlarKevin:

Of course not; name one Democrap that can give a straight answer. If they did, they would unwittingly reveal who they really are (just look at Barney Fwank). Anyone who votes for them is a fool...

heiferhopper| 4.3.09 @ 8:47AM

www.warroom.com

KevlarKevin:

Of course not; name one Democrap that can give a straight answer. If they did, they would unwittingly reveal who they really are (just look at Barney Fwank). Anyone who votes for them is a fool...

Kim| 4.4.09 @ 8:52AM

Neil was speaking for the part of the nation who believes in the constitution the way our founding fathers intended it! THANK YOU NEIL!!!!!

Herb| 6.19.09 @ 8:19AM

Here's how you solve the problem, get the taxpayer out of the bailout game. That idiot that some rather large group of idiots voted for to be a congressman, doesn't want to put a number on it because then he'd be held in check, and Congress doesn't want to be held in check, they want unlimited power.

Tombo| 8.8.09 @ 1:47PM

Great Job Neil! C'mon people, let's get these liberal, marxist fools out of washington before we find ourselves living in tyranny! "The American People will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of liberalism' they will adopt every fragmaent of the socialist program, until one day america will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." -Norman Thomas

...Who is John Galt
www.firecongress.meetup.com
www.constitutionfacts.com
www.warroom.com
READ: "Liberty an Tyranny" by Mark Levine

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