REP. ALAN GRAYSON TWEETS PHOTO WITH ‘F*** THE POLICE’ GRAFFITI

Tweet posted by @AlanGrayson.

The profanity in the photo was noticed by Palm Beach Post political reporter George Bennett.

Via: Breitbart

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[VIDEO] Just One Dollar Less: Why Washington’s Budget Will Be $150 Billion More in 2014

What would happen if lawmakers took this year’s budget, subtracted $1, and made that the budget for next year? Let Freedom Ring made this video asking policymakers to do just that:

If lawmakers did this, they would need to cut the 2014 budget by nearly $150 billion. That’s right: Federal spending is already projected to rise by nearly $150 billion in fiscal year 2014. So even keeping the budget the same would, essentially, “cut” the budget by nearly twice the amount that sequestration cut in 2013.

According to Let Freedom Ring’s own polling, 80 percent of the public would support such a commitment.

But instead, spending just keeps going up. Only 4 percent of Americans polled favor increased spending, making Congress, with its whopping 9 percent approval rating, twice as popular as a larger budget.

The ongoing budget conference is an important opportunity for lawmakers to agree to reduce spending in the near term, and most importantly, the long term. Discretionary spending is approved annually by Congress and makes up around one-third of all federal spending. Mandatory programs constitute roughly two-thirds of federal spending and are for the most part not included in annual appropriations; they automatically rise to accommodate new beneficiaries and changes in program costs—rising with changes in the cost of living and the cost of health care, for example. So this is where the budget conference should focus.

Via: Foundry

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Alan Grayson: ‘Spokesman’ of Nazi-Backed Occupy Wall Street

Grayson prefers to wallow in his self-inflicted stupidity, with a special animus directed at the Tea Party

Democratic Party hack Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has stooped to a new low in the demonization of Republicans in general, and the Tea Party in particular. On Monday, he sent out a fundraising email using the racist imagery of a burning cross and equating the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). However, Alan Grayson would do well to acquaint himself with which party is in fact the home of the KKK—and while he’s at it, he could perhaps explain why he is a self-described “spokesman” for the Nazi- and David Duke-backed Occupy Wall Street movement.

Though it is a regular occurrence among Democrats to reflexively label as “racist” anyone who disagrees with their agendas regarding virtually any policy supported by Barack Obama, most of them have enough awareness to steer clear of referring to the Ku Klux Klan in particular. There’s a good reason for that: it was a group of southern Democrats who founded the Ku Klux Klan. It was Democrats whofought against the passage of every civil rights law beginning in 1860s, and continuing through 1950s and 1960s.

Furthermore, the late Democratic senator from West Virginia, Robert Byrd, was an actual member of the KKK, who led many of his fellow Democrats in an unsuccessful 14-hour filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That would be the same Civil Rights Act supported by far higher percentages of Republicans than Democrats in both chambers of Congress. That same ratio held true the following year, when a greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats endorsed the Voting rights Act of 1965 that ended many of the pernicious restrictions used by states to deny black Americans the right to vote.

Via: Canada Free Press

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Overheard on MSNBC: Grayson burning cross email ‘opens the door’ for discussion on race

 James Peterson, professor at Lehigh University, echoed Rye’s sentiment and said there was plenty of blame to pass around for the Republican Party and the tea party for their use of what he called “racialized discourse.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Martin Bashir,” two guests suggested there was some merit to Rep. Alan Grayson’s Ku Klux Klan email.

The Florida Democrat sent out a fundraising email earlier this week with an image likening the tea party to the Klan. The image showed two Klansmen in the background with a burning cross used as the “t” in “tea party.” (Related: Alan Grayson (D-FL) trolls Tea Party: ‘No more popular than the Klan’)

Grayson has refused to back off from the extreme attack. (Related: Grayson stands by KKK-tea party comparison: ‘Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today’)

MSNBC’s commentators backed up Grayson. Angela Rye, a Democratic strategist, told host Martin Bashir there was no need for Grayson to apologize for that email and noted that it draws attention to race issues.

“I don’t think Alan Grayson should apologize,” Rye said. “I do understand the commentary around, you know, maybe he went too far. What I cannot accept, though, is why we can’t really have an honest conversation about tea party and bigotry. They continue to promote the kind of bigotry that led Mr. Grayson to send out this particular email and enabled him to raise funds from it. There are obviously segments of the society that agree with him.”

“If we’re talking about, you know, the GOP-led or tea party-led secession plan immediately after Obama was elected to his second term, or the visceral reaction to Obamacare, or even Romney saying, ‘those people and their free stuff,’” she continued. “There is a clear racial tinge to a lot of the rhetoric from the tea party and there are some even within the Republican Party itself, which is why someone like Judge Carlo Key put out an announcement saying he’s leaving the Republican Party to become a Democrat. So there are some clear discussions that we need to have to his last point. But, yeah, there is definitely some bigotry there we need to discuss.”

Via: Daily Caller

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'Despicable, Demeaning, Disgusting': Lt. Col. Allen West Slams Rep. Alan Grayson Over KKK/Tea Party Comparison

Former Congressman Allen B. West, R-Fla., appeared on Tuesday's Kelly File to discuss the controversial use of Ku Klux Klan imagery by Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla.

Grayson used the image of a burning cross to represent the "T" in Tea Party, and has continued to stand by his message.

West called on President Barack Obama, NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous and other leaders to condemn Grayson's actions:

Via: The Kelly Files

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ABSOLUTELY REPREHENSIBLE: Dem Alan Grayson Uses Burning Cross to Slander Tea Party, Fundraise

Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., an outspoken liberal, is taking heat from Republicans for raising money off an email that associates the tea party with the Ku Klux Klan.

On Monday, a Grayson fundraising email sent to supporters features an image of two KKK members in full regalia looking at a flaming cross, which is used as the “T” in tea party. “Now You Know What the ‘T’ Stands For,” reads a title under the image.

Grayson goes on to write that, “At this point, the tea party is no more popular than the Klan.”

The Florida Democrat was known for insulting Republicans during his first term in Congress, which ended in 2010. He came back to Congress via Florida’s 9th District in 2012. But more recently on Capitol Hill, Grayson earned plaudits for changing his style to work with his counterparts across the aisle.

Republicans have called on House Democrats to condemn the imagery Grayson used in the email.

“There’s no excuse for the hateful words and imagery used by Congressman Grayson,” NRCC spokesman Matt Gorman said in a statement. “House Democrats should swiftly and strongly condemn him and return the money he has raised for them. This hate-filled rhetoric has Americans fed up with Washington.

Grayson’s campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.

Via: Fox News

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“I scared the crap out of them!”: Alan Grayson details how to work with the GOP

In Part 1 of my interview with Rep. Alan Grayson published on Monday, we talked about Syria and national security policy. In Part 2, we turn to domestic matters. Grayson is actually one of the only trained economists in Congress, graduating from Harvard with an economics degree.

We talked about whether Dodd-Frank stabilized the financial system, the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy, and his surprising view on the fears of a government shutdown. We also talked about his recent partnerships with House Republicans. Below is a transcript of our conversation.

With the five-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse upon us, everyone is talking about whether we remain vulnerable to another crisis. You were on the Financial Services Committee when Dodd-Frank passed in 2010. Has it worked to make the financial system safer, or has nothing much changed?

Yes, nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed is the passage of time. Sometimes time does not heal. We still have the problem of some institutions being too big to fail, and nothing has been done to make them smaller or less interconnected. Nothing has changed the fact that, because of the sense in the market that some institutions are too big to fail, the big get bigger and the small get smaller. The cost of capital is smaller for institutions perceived as government-backed, than for ones not as credit-worthy, with counter-party risk.

The one good thing that’s happened in the past five years, in the sense of making people hopeful that the economy might survive a collapse, is that the Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary policy put us back on a low-level track toward growth. They showed that monetary policy in extremis can work to some degree.

Via: Salon

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Rep. Alan Grayson: White House Manipulated Data to Support Syria Strike

Rep. Alan Grayson charged on Thursday that the Obama administration had manipulated intelligence to push its case for limited military strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad in the country's civil war.

"The administration wants to flood the zone by excluding other information or points of view," the Florida Democrat told U.S. News & World Report. "I think that it is interesting that the administration consistently refers to Assad doing this and Assad doing that and Assad doing the other thing without giving the public any evidence to support the proposition that Assad has done anything."

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Grayson, who plans to vote against Obama's Syrian resolution next week, contended that Congress was being given intelligence briefings without any evidence to support administration claims that Assad had ordered the use of chemical weapons in last month's attacks in the suburbs of Damascus.

Released on Aug. 30, the White House report argued that Assad's government killed 1,429 people on Aug. 21 through chemical weapons.

Evidence cited in the document included "intercepted communications involving a senior official intimately familiar with the offensive who confirmed that chemical weapons were used."

Grayson, however, told U.S. News that "the claim has been made that that information was completely mischaracterized."

He described the four-page White House report as merely "a briefing paper with arguments in favor of attacking Syria" that "doesn't present both sides of the issue."

Via: Newsmax

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