02/03/2010
Every school, club, or company has a loudmouth whose outrageous
statements and failed attempts at humor cause his friends to shy away,
feigning laughter and everyone to think “what a jack---.”
Congress
always has more than its fair share of such people, and suffers them
gladly. Well, most of them. But this congress contains a man who
rises above the rest, distinguishing himself beyond all others as this
session’s “Biggest Jerk In Congress.” He is Representative Alan
Grayson, a first-term Democratic Congressman from Florida’s
historically Republican 8th Congressional District, which includes
Orlando.
Grayson is, like John Edwards, a wealthy trial attorney with a recent Roll Call
report showing him to be the 12th richest member of Congress (and the
7th richest member of the House alone.) Unlike John Edwards, who
embarrasses himself with different body parts, Grayson’s embarrassing
tool is his mouth.
Rep. Grayson’s favorite sport is verbally
attacking Republicans, and he seems to hold particular disdain for
former Vice President Dic- Cheney. In October, Grayson said he has a
hard time listening to Cheney “because of the blood that drips from his
teeth while he’s talking… But by the way, when he was done speaking,
did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?” Even Chris Matthews,
the leftist talking head who was interviewing Grayson, said “Oh God. We
gotta keep a level here.”
But apparently a vampire metaphor
wasn’t in-the-gutter enough for Grayson who last month commented (not
surprisingly again on MSNBC) about Dic- Cheney’s forthcoming book: “I’m
wondering, though, who’s doing the introduction to his book? Is it
Mephistopheles? I don’t know – maybe it’s Satan.”
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