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Rep. Alan Grayson Discusses Wall Street Pay with Joe Stiglitz and Nell Minow

Alan Grayson discusses executive compensation in the House Financial Services Committee with Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz, Lucian Bebchuk and Nell Minow. Why is Grayson among the very few public representatives really standing up for America? (I’d count Kucinich, Sanders, and a few others in that group.) Is every other representative completely spineless or beholden to corporations and their lobbyists? [...]

Saving Democracy From Corporatism

Five Supreme Court Justices stabbed at the heart of democracy, our electoral system.
They overturned over 100 years of statute and precedent, and declared that corporations can spend all the money that they want to buy elections. In fact, these five men in robes declared, they have a constitutional right to do so. A SINGLE company [...]

Grayson: “SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY”

Congressman Alan Grayson (FL-8) has introduced legislation to prevent a corporate takeover of government in America.  His “Save Our Democracy” Reform Package (H.R. 4431-4435) aims to stave off the threat of “corpocracy” arising from today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision.
“The Supreme Court in essence has ruled that corporations can buy elections.  If that happens, democracy in [...]

Rep. Alan Grayson: Who’s Writing The Intro To Cheney’s Book — Mephistopheles?

Alan Grayson on the ED Show at msnbc.com, January 4, 2010

Rep. Alan Grayson on the War and Health Care

Alan Grayson talks about health care and the wars, costs in terms of money and lives ($3T and thousands of lives, American and others), Al Qaeda, and the perpetuation of death and debt.
“How do we ask an American soldier to be the last to die in Afghanistan and Iraq?” he asks, paraphrasing the same question asked [...]

Bankers making turkeys out of taxpayers

The nation’s bankers have much to be thankful for as they sit down to their turkey dinners on Thursday.
At this time last year, the American financial system was near collapse, rescued only by hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars. Now the system has stabilized, and the industry is on the verge of a coup that [...]

Audit the Federal Reserve

On The ED Show, Rep. Alan Grayson discusses the bill to audit the Fed, which passed out of the Financial Services Committee on November 20, 2009.
Rep. Alan Grayson, on November 19, 2009, argues in support of the Paul-Grayson amendment, which would subject the Federal Reserve to a complete audit. The amendment later passed the House [...]

Alan Grayson on Hardball: Is Dick Cheney a Vampire?

Alan Grayson (Captain Cojones) talking about health care with Chris Matthews on Hardball.

Rep. Alan Grayson: “The Party of No is quickly becoming the Party of Nobody”

Alan Grayson on the Ed Show talking about Fox News and the Republican Party.

Alan Grayson on Bill Maher: GOP Health Care Reform Would Be Letting You Bring A Gun to the Doctor

This is Rep. Alan Grayson on Real Time with Bill Maher, 10/16/09. He discusses his health care statements and general political philosophy. “Huey Long… You gotta put some jam on the bottom shelf where the little man can reach it.”

Alan Grayson: Olympia Snowe’s Vote is Too Expensive

Alan Grayson: Republicans “probably wish there were a Nobel Prize for fear”

Alan Grayson on war profiteers, Afghanistan: “McChrystal was way out of line”

This is Rep. Alan Grayson on the Ed Show on MSNBC discussing Afghanistan.

Rep. Alan Grayson: “If the President has a BLT tomorrow, the Republicans would try to ban bacon.”

This is Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) discussing health care on the floor of the House on 10/8/09. He sends a message to Democrats: No one elected Olympia Snowe President of the United States. And he sends a message to Republicans: No one cares about your feelings.

Rep. Alan Grayson, star of the left

“If anybody needs to apologize, the Republicans need to apologize, because since they started these obstructive tactics so many more thousands of Americans have died for lack of health insurance.” And he stood by his original assertion, “Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.”
When Salon pressed him, “Is what you said really [...]