The American Spectator

al| 7.24.10 @ 5:16PM

"Let me tell you what every election is about," he explained. "Every election is about 309 million Americans asking the question: ‘What are you going to do for me?'

The root of our problems.

Quartermaster| 7.24.10 @ 8:17PM

You beat me to it.

Grayson's idea of Democracy is a better described as "Dimocracy." It is the very thing that makes so much of the 3rd world corrupt. Our Government was set up as a Republic - a Democracy specifically limited by a constitution. Ignoring that constitution is the problem exemplified by Grayson and his fellow dimocrats.

Jim| 7.24.10 @ 8:47PM

How far we have come since John F Kennedy said
"ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"

What a pinhead
I hope his district is paying attention.

Michael Wells| 7.24.10 @ 8:56PM

Jim, you are exactly right. I find it ironic that is the Marxist-Communist left that says "Every election is about 309 million Americans asking the question: ‘What are you going to do for me?' And that's fair. That's what democracy all about." I thought the whole idea was supposed to be about collective?? They will never figure out that by doing for yourself and reaching your full potential in this world, that it will help society a lot more than creating new ways from taking from the productive.

AnitaDenise| 7.25.10 @ 12:16PM

Amen!!! I moved into his district, and I am paying attention! I am backing Patricia Sullivan, she is treating the job of representative the way it wa meant to be treated. As a duty and service to our country, not as an open candy jar.

Tyrone Slothrop| 7.24.10 @ 5:33PM

I don't hate very many people, but I think Grayson is one of them. His remarks seem so gratuitously offensive. I can't imagine that he has any friends.

Nobama| 7.24.10 @ 6:16PM

The loser's not worth hate--just indifference.

Greg| 7.24.10 @ 5:40PM

Hey Grayson, what's with the snide remarks you reprobate?

gorgo| 7.24.10 @ 5:42PM

Whenever I see a picture of Grayson, three words come to mind: Massive porn collection.

Brian B| 7.24.10 @ 5:49PM

LOL

Silver Shamrock| 7.24.10 @ 7:13PM

Diaper fetish & scat porn.

Edouard| 7.24.10 @ 5:53PM

Once upon a time, a Democrat said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." How did we Americans lapse from that noble sentiment to today's selfishness? America needs more producers. Not more sponges a la Grayson's dreadful conception.

Nobama| 7.24.10 @ 6:17PM

Grayson is the hideous face of the democrat party.

Possum Dearie| 7.24.10 @ 6:20PM

As another famous Joker once said, "Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money." Alan Grayson has it all wrong. Americans know there is no such thing as a free lunch, and they should worry very much what clowns like the Democrats are going to do to them.

Missy| 7.24.10 @ 6:20PM

Democrats look the other way when one of their own is a known serial adulterer, sexual harasser and accused rapist, aka Wild Willy Clinton.

Hypocrites.

james| 7.24.10 @ 6:25PM

Any Jew who gives himself a name like Grayson admits everything ugly about himself. His whole life is a violent lie because he hates himself, violently. I'm a Jew. I know this type. Trust me. If Grayson were actually a smart guy he would model himself after Gyorgy Schwarts, dba George Soros, who survived and made his fortune by turning in fellow Jews to Nazis and then selling their confiscated property.
That's Grayson, if he had the guts.

lonesomecharlie| 7.24.10 @ 6:39PM

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic." - Ben Franklin.

Alan Grayson is the end of the Republic.

paulejb| 7.24.10 @ 6:49PM

Mass hysteria, a collective case of the vapors, a hissy fit, a meth overdose? How best to describe our left wing friends?

Eric| 7.24.10 @ 7:08PM

Open up, Grayson. I'm going to dangle these teabags into your mouth.

Ovedya| 7.24.10 @ 8:26PM

"Let me tell you what every election is about," he explained. "Every election is about 309 million Americans asking the question: ‘What are you going to do for me?' And that's fair. That's what democracy all about."

A far cry from, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

Snake Plissken| 7.24.10 @ 9:11PM

Grayson is my representative. I didn't vote for the bastard, and you can be sure I'll vote against him in November. He's an embarassment. He won only because people were tired of his opponent Keller.

Winghunter| 7.24.10 @ 10:30PM

It's good to know there's one sane person there but, what are you doing about finding a patriot to take his place...The GOP would only find a RINO.

I've got my hands full with my own nutcases, it's time to go to work.

SoCon| 7.24.10 @ 9:28PM

The skeezy creep makes my skin crawl. Yuck!!

Tim K.| 7.24.10 @ 10:33PM

There's a reason Conservatives have dubbed this Convention "NutRoots" instead of "Netroots". I can't believe any organization would have nutjob Grayson speak for or to them.

Lazy Jack| 7.25.10 @ 9:21AM

I assume Grayson missed this:

"Ask not what your country can do for you..."

Instead we get:

"Let me tell you what every election is about," he explained. "Every election is about 309 million Americans asking the question: ‘What are you going to do for me?' And that's fair. That's what democracy all about."

We may as well just hang a sign on the DNC doorway:

"Vacant. For ideas and ideals, look just about anywhere else."

Best,

Lazy Jack

www.thanksforthelaughs.wordpress.com

Yosemeti Sam| 7.25.10 @ 9:56AM

Is this Grayson character the seeming similitude of CNNs' otherwise-reported hit and run driver Sanchez?

Richard Riker| 7.25.10 @ 10:05AM

I guess Al Grayson hasn't heard of JFK or his inaugural speech "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" . Grayson loves to spend the tax payers money, just look at all the earmarks he brought to his district at the expense of the United States. Earmarks for projects that won't help anyone other than the group for which he got the earmark. Good thing he is being replaced by conservative Republican Patricia Sullivan this November.

Tim*| 7.25.10 @ 11:00AM

Grayson is whistlin' past the graveyard .

" The findings of the New York Times/CBS News Poll of Tea Party supporters augur well for the Republicans in November's midterm elections: the politically energized supra conservatives -- the one in five who are universally disaffected with national conditions, and with Barack Obama and with his policies -- are likely to be a strong advantage in the midterms, where typically fewer than four of 10 eligible citizens vote.

The boost that Tea Party supporters give Republican candidates may be especially decisive this year given how politically asleep the Democrats appear. In every poll the latter register as far less enthusiastic about voting than do Republicans generally, not to mention Tea Party adherents."

Dwight| 7.25.10 @ 11:02AM

Grayson has been ENORMOUSLY profitable in private business and yet is still a fierce advocate for the non-businessman, worker of America. That should tell you about his conviction when it comes to the issue of democracy. He doesn't subscribe to the conservative deification of the rich. He knows that workers have power in democracy to stop the bleeding of our resources, only for increasing stress and decreasing security in our lives.

And enough with the sentence-out-of-context demonizations, aren't those out-of-style after Shirley Sherrod?

Go Alan Grayson!

Oldefarte| 7.25.10 @ 11:14AM

Obviously Grayson is too STUPID to realize that one of his MSNBC TV news moronic commentators, Olbermann, is now on vacation [thanks to conservative Tucker Carlson's company purchasing his/Olbermann's show] and no doubt will RETIRE from same. As to his comment about 'working people', give me a break------the only WORKING that these people do is to get off their delapidated couches and go to the nearest WELFARE OFFICE to collect the benefits paid for by 'working' TAXPAYERS and privided by domestic terrorists like this congressman!!!!

Dominique D| 7.25.10 @ 2:24PM

Alan Grayson is either utterly ignorant of history or considers his constituents total morons. History is very clear on Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. It was an absolute disaster and perpetuated the great depression for a decade. Before Grayson makes more stupid remarks, he may want to take a macroeconomics course at UCF, where he will undoubtedly learn that Keynesian economics does not work. Government spending crowds the private sector and destroys jobs. Only the private sector is capable of creating wealth and jobs. Government redistribution simply discourages the entrepreneurial spirit, and drives business overseas. Growing government debt also affects the cost of borrowing, thereby limiting future economic growth.
If Alan Grayson knows his history and in spite of it pursues socialistic policies, (which have failed in every country its has been tried), then one can only conclude that he cares only about power, not the welfare of his constituents and assumes that we are too stupid to know better. It’s times to reverse course. One person can do it: Patricia Sullivan.

L. Doherty| 7.25.10 @ 4:36PM

Grayson's bloviating and giveaway policies are coming to end. Patricia Sullivan is going to oust him out of office and back into obscurity, where all the other "talking heads" with no brains belong.

Dave Dimick| 7.25.10 @ 5:26PM

I trust the voters in Florida's 8th congressional district will have the intestinal fortitude to vote this fraud out of office in November. "Every election is about 309 million Americans asking the question: ‘What are you going to do for me?' And that's fair. That's what democracy all about." So that is what democracy is all about? Cretin.

James K| 7.26.10 @ 11:17AM

Once again Grayson (the mouth) shows his liberal/ socialistic agenda. He wants the government to provide “everything” and personal responsibility be damn. Just ask yourself how you would feel if the IRS came to your door and said, “…we’re from the IRS and we’re here to help you…”. We don’t need Grayson’s New Deal. We need representatives like Patricia Sullivan who believe in our Constitution, free markets and personal responsibility.

PatriotDee| 7.26.10 @ 1:42PM

It's hard to imagine why any organization would invite Grayson to spout the drivel that spews from his mouth which he tries to pass off as the truth. How much longer will you be fooled by this pretend congressman? And exactly what has he done for YOU lately? High unemployment, record home foreclosures, massive national debt and complete departure from the constitutional principles our country was founded upon will be the legacy of Grayson and his ilk. The voters of Florida's 8th district will arrange for him to join the ranks of the unemployed in November. He will be replaced by a Patriot who will actually represent us according to our wishes as opposed to simply taking directions from the Party. She is Patricia Sullivan, a principled leader who will help us move our government back to what the founders intended it to be.

Cindy| 7.27.10 @ 12:35PM

Well, Mr. Grayson, as one of the 309 million voting americans, here is what I would like you to do for me...STOP GIVING AWAY MY MONEY in the form of entitlements. Deadbeats who won't work are NOT ENTITLED to take away from those who do. Those who do not work are not ENTITLED to have the rest of us pay their way! Stimulus packages! Healthcare! STOP spending what you don't have. That's what you can do for me and the rest of the 309 million voters. Vote for policies that make jobs, not destry them. How bout that? That would be a good start. Stick to the Constitution and stop taking our freedoms away by forcing us to buy a product that we don't all want or need in the form of forced healthcare. That's what you can do for me. Make decisions that strengthen our country not pull it apart at the seams. That's what you can do for me. Oh wait...sorry...you are incapable of doing any of those things. Never mind. Patricia Sullivan will do the job instead.

anon| 8.9.10 @ 5:48AM

I disagree with every comment I've read so far and I can only imagine the amount of brainwashing it took so many of you to act in direct opposition to your own best interests. You are fools so steeped in hypocrisy you know longer know the meaning of the word. You claim to know the intent of the founding fathers? Your knowledge of history wouldn't fill a novelty miniature shot glass. You claim to want the government to stop robbing the common man? Then ask it to stop providing so much welfare for large corporations, ask it to tax people somewhat appropriately for the amount of resources they consume, including the roads their trucks drive on, the property our police and militias guard, the land they hold or inherit. How many of those rich motherfuckers actually earned half of what they own? How much came from other people, from institutionalized racism, from institutionalised class privilege? How much do people at the bottom not get paid and should because of inadequate wages, based on standards of living first calculated in the 1950's, before housing grew disproportionately expensive? Fuck all of you, you hollow, empty-headed little yes-men, you small minded clones, all babbling one another's opinions at each other as if you were saying anything new. This deficit, this war, the state of this country, is the fault of idiots like you. You're not revolutionaries. You're sheep.
As for the "deadbeats who don't work" guy I would say just keep fucking laughing buddy. The majority of the unemployed are not there voluntarily, and the numbers are growing, because of policies started by your buddies Reagan and Bush. You'll be there soon enough. Keep taking apart the social safety net and just watch where you land.