Countdown: Rep. Alan Grayson - 'You Cannot Beat a Republican By Being One'

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC Countdown w/ LAWRENCE O'DONNELL - 9 Oct. 2009: Interview w/ Congressman Alan Grayson. He discusses his call to action to get health care done.


O'DONNELL: "How did you turn out to be, apparently, the only member of Congress who knew that there are Democrats out there in the country who have been waiting to hear some tough push-back against Republicans. How did it fall to you?"

GRAYSON: "I just listened to what everybody's saying... I'm just saying what everyone else has been thinking."

[msongs]

1. ONE democrat with guts - so what other dems are speaking n acting this way? any? nt

[Thickasabrick]

2. Word!! He needs to send that memo to all the democrats who try

so hard to make the republicans like them. Wake up idiots, they will never like you so quit bending over for them - you look pathetic.

[Merlot]

3. ".. I'm just saying what everyone else has been thinking."

yup that about sums it up for me.

[laughingliberal]

4. A great line

I think this guy is having some impact. Check out how Nancy stood up and told the GOP she was in her place, Speaker of the House, yesterday. Hope this is a trend.

[tomm2thumbs]

5. 'a fighter who fights for them... what the Democratic Party traditionally meant' is right on point

that party is being influenced out of their core beliefs by corporate influence and backroom deals

[ejpoeta]

6. wish more dems would realize that. hopefully more dems will grow a pair after seeing

how positive the reaction to grayson has been.

[kestrel91316]

7. I think he reads DU.

[tomm2thumbs]

8. that and 'if you don't use your majority, you LOSE your majority' should be our mantras

guess it bears repeating over and over so the folks in Washington start to get it through their thick skulls, mucked over by years of political deal-making

[Cha]

9. What a sweetheart!

"GRAYSON: "I just listened to what everybody's saying... I'm just saying what everyone else has been thinking."

[jennied]

10. I love this guy.

[checks-n-balances]

11. LOVE that quote!!

I'm planning to google it...

Thanks for posting the vid, Hissy~

Oh yeah, and I love Grayson too (and Dems like him)!

He's been described as "A Dem with balls & a backbone"! Love it!!

[get the red out]

12. I like Alan Grayson

He actually tells the truth! I don't understand why Democrats like to run around scared of offending lying, selfish Republicans? I rather like hearing the truth out of a Democrat regarding what we are dealing with on the other side.

[1badjedi]

13. Agreed

"I rather like hearing the truth out of a Democrat regarding what we are dealing with on the other side."


Dems need to stop handling cretins with kid gloves. They should man up across the board. Simply pointing out the constant hypocrisy from the other side would be a good start.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

14. "No-mongers"

I love this man!