Why is this guy still soiling our party with his noxious presence?
Is it a Florida thing?
He seems nice.
“Get out of my way or I’ll beat you like a wife!” Grayson screamed.
He sure has an amazing capacity for projection!
Loose cannons can blow holes in your own ship. Grayson has always struck me as a smug smarmy a-hole.
Hard to know who to root for here. “Did you ever stop beating your wife?” “Get out of my way or it’s kidnapping!”
Yeah. That sure did convince me that his wife must have been lying about him being a bully.
Well, there’s one way to not win over positive public perception when asked about abusing your wife.
OK - now that that’s settled, it’s Murphy v. Rubio. Got it.
He’s always been like this. Always. he was very effective when the Dems were fighting the Rethugs but now, not so much.
FWIW, Dan Webster, the guy who eventually took his seat in 2010 was just as whacked out as him.
Just how effective was he? Sure, he got shout outs from the left for offering what was then over the top commentary about Republicans, but did that change anything? Did it help anything? Or did it just generate laughs and news fodder? I’ll admit I’m not up on his fighting Republicans beyond what has appeared in the headlines.
I always remember this from Matt Taibbi, my favorite Grayson story:
I have personal experience with… well, let’s call it the unique personality of Alan Grayson. In his capacity as an attorney he once basically threatened to have me dismembered and have my body parts dumped in a tin canister and fired into the center of a burning supernova. And that’s actually underselling the real language he used.
We were having a disagreement about the use of information given to me by a certain source in a story about military contracting, and in the middle of what had been a normal contentious argument between two sane adults, dude suddenly assumed this crazy monster-voice and just went medieval on me. He was roaring into the telephone about how he was going to crush me, how I was going to wish I had never messed with him, how I didn’t know who the hell I was dealing with, and so on. One phrase I remember in particular was, “I am going to strip the bark off of you!”
Yes. Clearly he exhibited the kind of restraint one would expect from someone who does not beat his wife to a pulp that requires medical attention.
Grayson is a YUUUUGE embarrassment not only to the state of Florida, but the Democratic party. Seriously, they need to cut that guy off and tell him to go the hell away, as he’s really making the dems look bad,
I guess we should be grateful he didn’t sext his wang.
Do not need dicks like this in the Democratic Party.
Leaving aside the abuse allegations, his conduct here was that of a self important lying jerk.
Nice job an alleviating everyone’s concerns, Mr. Grayson.
I am thoroughly confused. I thought Grayson was the liberal Florida darling that had no fear of telling the Repubs what he thought and was thoroughly beloved for said behavior. Who do I have him confused with?
Yep, there’s a reason Reid is backing his Democratic primary opponent, and it’s not because Grayson is too liberal.