I warned you, politely at first and then with increasing vituperativeness, that Alan Grayson is a complete fraud. This is another reason why you read this blog.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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The presumed nominee then…Patrick Murphy, who will fit right in.
Murphy was a member of the Republican Party, donating the maximum individual contribution of $2,300 to Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign and $4,800 to other Republican candidates, until four months prior to announcing his candidacy for Congress, at which time he switched his registration to the Democratic Party and donated $4,000 to a variety of Democratic candidates.[21] He says he switched from being a Republican and a Mitt Romney supporter because of his disgust with the Tea Party movement.[21] Murphy was described in The Huffington Post as a “pro-choice, pro-LGBT rights but ‘not ultra-liberal’ Democrat who values fiscal responsibility.”[6] The top five contributors to Murphy’s campaign committee for the 2013-2014 time period were his family’s construction company, Deloitte, Suntech Plumbing, Goldman Sachs, and J Street PAC.
Glad I don’t live in FL — doubt I could vote for either of these two men..
my thought exactly. Grayson is a dick but ok on some issues. Murphy is a repub running as a dem, ok on a different and smaller set of isues.
The head of the Florida Progressive Caucus knows Grayson and speaks highly of him. That counts for something.
One of the SANDERS organizersations in Iowa that I met was from Orlando. I talked about Grayson, mentioned this, but said he strikes me as a bit of a lunatic.
She said she was worried a bit – because she thinks Grayson is awful.
Murphy is basically a Republican who saw an opportunity (paging Crist) and Grayson is so bad he might win.
It ain’t easy being a Florida Democrat.
So the question is: Will Hillary, with the hundreds of millions accrued through speaking fees, campaign donations and donations made to the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, be free from the influence of money?
If Grayson votes my way in Congress, why should I vote for a Republican. If someone votes against what I want, why should I vote for Hillary?
It can’t be both ways.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/30/clinton-system-donor-machine-2016-election/
Grayson will mostly vote your way. Sort of half a loaf compared to the quarter that third way DEMs expect the left to be satisfied with. But that not good half of Grayson is highly problematical.
If Grayson votes my way in Congress, why should I vote for a Republican. If someone votes against what I want, why should I vote for Hillary?
That’s assuming he wins if he won the primary, which isn’t exactly guaranteed (either one).
Idk how I’d vote in the primary. Murphy is bad on issues; Grayson has ethics issues out the wazoo (he’s also not exactly a class warrior himself).
I’d probably vote Murphy out of the electability argument.
A real Republican will turf him out after Dems discover what they got and sit on their hands next time around. That’s the pattern, at least.
Who does Debbie Wasserman Schultz support? Let me guess. The Republican?
Did she recruit him? LOL
The heuristic is simple:
Is it bad?
DWS did it.
Also accurate!
Yes, in fact, she knocked down my mailbox.
She toilet-papered my house last Halloween.
She turned me into a newt!
Thanks, Debbie!
(I got better)
See! If DWS hadn’t spent her time on all these dumb pranks maybe she’d have a plan to get more seats in congress.
I think she’s made clear that’s a low priority item; it’s the repub strategy, ensure power via fear mongering and never solving the problems about which you fearmonger
Mia culpa. I wronged the maiden. Chuckie Schumer did it.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee endorsed the Republican.
By the way, the New York Times is no longer a reputable news source.
you sound like a Tea Bagger. We all know the NYT’s shortcomings. They’re are not new.
Whatever. I’ve had problems since Judith Miller, exacerbated by their pro-fascist coverage of Ukraine. I going to cancel my subscription.
What does this mean?
OT, but this makes me sooo mad right now. Fuq’n Bobby Jindal
Thanks, to Bobby Jindal and all the folks who supported and voted to keep him in 2X. Yeah go ahead and blame the poor or the new Gov who only been in office for what 1 month…NOPE look yourselves in the face and your children and remember you voted for Jindal to do something bout them “welfare” folks and he did just that…he cut funding to public hospitals, closed them all, closed mental health, cut public services but kept tax cuts and incentives for the oil companies, and the old money businessmen in Louisiana…So they can miss me with the blame for the poor folks on welfare and such….thx Bobby!
The TOPS program has been a main resources for students being able to get a higher education since at least the time I was in high school…for over 20 years…
Now thanks to Louisiana’s “historic budget shortfall”…this is where we are…
TOPS payments suspended amid looming Louisiana budget crisis
God, can you imagine job of whatever Dem governor who has to rebuild Kansas when Brownback is finished with her?
Shit…and it could get worse…
Damn… I’m hoping this is a negotiation tactic…or at the very least NOT true…
Meh, he disclosed it all. Down 17% sounds about right for 2015 hedge fund returns, but $16.4 million @ 2% isn’t chump change, well actually it is for the median hedge fund. The question is who are the investors? If it’s his father-in-law and some college buddies it is hard to see this as much of a thing. Surely making money isn’t prima facae evidence of evility and not everyone who makes money is evil, are they?
Yes, and yes, especially if you’re Mrs. Clinton.
Now are there any hard questions?
Surely making money isn’t prima facae evidence of evility and not everyone who makes money is evil, are they?
Are you out of your mind? God.
First the liberals defending Hillary Clinton, and now we have pwoggies doing it, too.
It’s investment, not speaking fees or donations from people that you are regulating. It’s legitimate business, slightly more unsavory than running a gambling house or a strip joint or a Nevada “ranch.”
That doesn’t mean the person running the business doesn’t have progressive values. Or must all true progressives be on welfare?
Investment? No. Are you fucking kidding? Did you even read the article?
You’re cool with this kind of behavior?
Yeah, I did. How is it different from Senators that are lawyers passing out their law firm cards?
Our County Assessor, who is either the present or former County Democratic Chairman, self deals with his own law firm filing assessment protests with himself. That’s a lot worse than drumming up investment business while on an official trip.
And taking @200K speaking fees is just legal bribery. It’s a lot different from taking $200K investments that are still the property of the investor, less commissions. If a Congressman is also a Realtor, should he/she forgo their commission for selling a $10,000,000 house?
It’s WORKING and for longer than two hours.
Why on earth would anyone with an ounce of sense in their head consider a hit piece by the New York Times to be anything but what it is? A hit piece. Compared to HRC…about whom you have been fence-sitting so long your ass must be getting sore…Grayson is a piker, even if everything the Times’s Judith Miller wannabes write is true.
I repeat:
If you were to put an impartial judgmental lens on every member of the federal legislature, do you not think that every one of them has indulged in some sort of chicanery just to get elected?
I am sure of it, myself.
It’s the price of success in this fucked-up system.
Deal wid it.
AG
But this was the big Progressive hero. Man y’all sure know how to pick em.
What makes you think he isn’t progressive? Both TR and FDR were rich also.
On the subject of Teddy Roosevelt, read an article on Bernie that suggested he was more in that mold than the FDR one.
“One of the less heralded developments of recent decades has been the decline of appreciation on the left for the progressive reformers of the first decades of the 20th century and their battles with the robber barons.”
http://takimag.com/article/better_a_crook_than_a_wasp_the_left_ditches_progressivism_steve_sailer/pr
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A good article, but I searched for “Sanders” then “Bernie” but couldn’t find him mentioned. What was mentioned was
The Sanders/TR article was in the Atlantic. I do recommend it.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/the-allure-and-limits-of-managerialism/460146/
Shitstorm in Louisiana right now…
Text of John Bel Edwards Address
http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/11/text-john-bel-edwards-address/80260372/
@WWLTV 42s42 seconds ago
Edwards: Safety net hospitals will close in places like Lake Charles, Bogolusa if budget not fixed
@WWLTV 7s7 seconds ago
Edwards: LSU main campus will run out of money by April 30th if budget not fixed. Southern University in the same boat.
@WWLTV 6m6 minutes ago
Edwards says while Jindal came into office with a surplus, he has been given an almost billion dollar deficit.
@WWLTV 7m7 minutes ago
Edwards: We have just 3 weeks, starting this Sunday, to make the changes we need.
@WWLTV 1m1 minute ago
If you are a student there, you will receive a grade of incomplete, student athletes will not be able to play.
I swear, if I had children of school age I’d try my best right now or as soon as possible to get the HELL out of Louisiana…unless/until it gets it’s shit together…smh
@NolaGraphicsGuy 7m7 minutes ago
Percentage of students that could be impacted by @LouisianaGov halt on TOPS payments. Story http://bit.ly/1o4r7dp
” Some students may have to drop out of school.”
Chicago schools about to implode too with 50 students per classroom and lots of non-teacher staff fired as well. Because Rauner won’t make any deal that doesn’t involve breaking Unions and it looks like Rahm Emanuel is in league with him.
Why isn’t anyone starting a recall petition for Rauner? I’d love to see it on the ballot in November. He wouldn’t escape like Scott Walker, at least not on a Presidential election ballot.
What are the rules/laws for recall elections in Illinois? Many States have laws which make it impossible or very, very difficult to recall State officials.
Shit, if you couldn’t recall Blago….
They passed the recall law so they could recall blago, then impeached him instead when the FBI decided to indict him.
So is the Illionois recall law usable? Our recent experiences in Wisconsin show the potential limits of using recalls to try to change a Governor’s negotiating position.
This is the horror of not having a viable party in the States. They can do a lot more damage to the little person that the federal govt. Wise up. This cannot continue!
A shut down will effect the GOP primary in March. I want to hear The Donald explain austerity to all those who will be unemployed.
So IOKIYA “True Progressive,” right, Frog Ponders? If you’re in the club, all is rationalized.
But here’s the fly in some of your ointments: Alan Grayson has kinda sorta endorsed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential candidacy.
Oh, shit, time to dump him! What. A. Disappointment.
So it did not inoculate him… Well, he is too crude and loud for Versailles, too, I guess. If you remember…
How did you suss out that Grayson was a closet hedge fund operator? From his Trump-like style?
Grayson appealed to progressives because he dished back at Republicans like they gave, while the rest of the Democrats tended towards fecklessness.
Will Democratic candidates and politicians ever be able to match style with progressive policies in a popular way? Or was that skill lost in 1945?
Huey Long would give them conniptions for sure.
FDR outlasted Long by a decade.
But FDR’s style was acceptable.
Truman wasn’t shabby at pushing back at Republicans. He was still dumping on Nixon in 1960.
you did nail him a long time ago, BooMan.
Since you brought up why we read this blog… I just want to say that I comment very occasionally, since I am probably (slightly) to the right of most of the audience here and I don’t like to get to into arguments, but this is the blog that I read essentially every day, and I very much appreciate everything that you do.
Not everyone here is on the left of the D Party. I certainly am not.
Well, the DNC is open for business….https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-allowing-donations-from-federal-lobbyists-an
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