Comments on: Alan Grayson: Smile America, You’ve Got a $1.2 Trillion Slush Fund?

By: jacqrat

jacqrat — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:10:25 +0000

THANK YOU HOWIE for vetting candidates and helping us find fine reps like ALAN.

By: reader

reader — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:54:22 +0000

wow … that IS a better Democrat!

By: DeadLast

DeadLast — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:54:27 +0000

Remember back in 2002, during the good ole days of the Bush Admin? When Enron, Tyco, Global Crossing, and WorldCom refused to tell their investors where they were spending money? We had a financial crises. The market did not respond kindly.

So now, the same guys who looked the other way are saying “You Can’t Handle the TRUTH!”

Un-ffffing-beleivable!!!

By: bonkers

bonkers — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:47:29 +0000

During one of his visits here at FDL, Grayson said he literally was “thrown under a bus” as kid in a fight and survived, obviously. He’s from the Bronx if I remember correctly. Yes, he is fantastic.

Know that BigMedia will be setting their sights on him to get him out of there. We need to rally around him now to make sure he’s in the House as long as he wants to be, and hopefully he’ll want to go higher. I joked with him while he was here when he was going to set up his Presidential exploratory committee. Watching this clip, I might try to set up a “Draft Grayson for President” site.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:24:54 +0000

The Fed is the great unreported story in the financial meltdown. The amounts of money it has pumped into financial markets dwarfs anything Paulson has done at Treasury but in the case of both there has been extreme and unnecessary secrecy surrounding who gets how much and who precisely was chosen to administer giving it to them. It is important to remember that these are the same goofs who created the meltdown who are now hiding how they are dealing with it.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:20:33 +0000

LS, you is one sharp wit.

If we was ‘banks’, then we’d be golden …

By: LS

LS — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:12:48 +0000

If they don’t you can apply for a bail-out from the Treasury!

By: LS

LS — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:11:57 +0000

Sure they’d work. They’d be PA weather rocks. Pet rock worked…Heh.

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:01:38 +0000

I thought that about the round to-its; people are always saying, “Well, I’ll do that when I get around to it.”

But, ya know what?

Didn’t seem to be any interest, even as conversation starters …

Didn’t sell a one.

But, I do like your idea.

Would limestone rocks from Pennsylvania work just as well?

Of does it depend upon how much rope ya give ‘em?

By: LS

LS — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:55:58 +0000

Exactly. I have some Texas weather rocks to exchange…they are limestone and they have holes in them and you can hang them from trees…you know it is raining if they’re wet and you know it’s clear if they’re dry and you know it’s windy and from where depending on which way they swing in the wind. Should be worth somethin’. Heh…