{"id":33590,"date":"2009-10-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:50:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:50:35","slug":"rep_alan_grayson_d_fl_lunatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/10\/01\/rep_alan_grayson_d_fl_lunatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), Lunatic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Alan Grayson, Democrat, Florida, is back. Let\u2019s go back to Tuesday night on the House floor.<\/p>\n

GRAYSON: If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. That\u2019s right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick. Remember, the Republican plan: Don\u2019t get sick. And if you do get sick, die quickly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Alan Grayson. He\u2019s from Orlando and he\u2019s a Democrat. I never heard of him before this. Have you heard of him, Snerdley? Now everybody knows who he is, but there\u2019s more to this. He went back yesterday on the House floor and added to it.<\/line><\/line>GRAYSON: I call upon all of us to do our jobs for the sake of America, for the sake of those dying people and their families. I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven\u2019t voted sooner to end this Holocaust in America.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a Holocaust in America. Health care is the equivalent of a Holocaust in America. And this is a great example of projection. With Democrats, you die before you\u2019re born! You don\u2019t even get a chance at health care if the Democrats are in charge. Remember, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Life? Democrats? No way. Look at the number of abortions they are for and are responsible for. Liberty? No way. Tyranny. There\u2019s no way they want liberty for anybody. It stands in the way of what they want. Pursuit of happiness? Does Grayson sound happy? I went and did a Wikipedia search on this guy because I\u2019ve never heard of him. And it\u2019s sort of funny. I thought maybe old Alan had played football and was now in dementia because the New York Times had a story, NFL players suffering dementia, I thought maybe he\u2019d be an NFL player, was losing his mind out there, but he\u2019s too much of a liberal to ever have competed in anything. <\/p>\n

Now, listen to his Wikipedia entry. And, by the way, this paragraph I\u2019m going to read to you is the longest paragraph in the section devoted to his legislative history. It\u2019s the longest paragraph. ‘Grayson is married to Lolita Grayson. They have five children, Skye, Star, Sage, Storm, and Stone.\u2019 And they laughed at Sarah Palin for the way she named her kids. This is the paragraph that describes his legislative track record of history: ‘In early 2009, Grayson responded to comments by talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh, in which Limbaugh stated that he wanted the policies of President Barack Obama ‘to fail.” Most of this paragraph is about me, is my point. They recite verbatim what I meant when I said I wanted Obama to fail: ‘Look, what he\u2019s talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don\u2019t want this to work. So I\u2019m thinking of replying to the guy, ‘Okay, I\u2019ll send you a response, but I don\u2019t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.\u2019…\u2019] by saying, ‘Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we\u2019d all need pain killers.\u2019 <\/p>\n

This is in his legislative paragraph, this is the number one entry, this is the highlight of Grayson\u2019s legislative career is what he has said in reaction to me. ‘On March 3 of that year, satirizing incidents in which prominent Republican officials (including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele) were forced to apologize to Limbaugh for criticizing him, Grayson released a second statement, in which he said, ‘I\u2019m sorry Limbaugh called for harsh sentences for drug addicts while he was a drug addict. I\u2019m also sorry that he\u2019s bent on seeing America fail. And I\u2019m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being.” That\u2019s Alan Grayson, Democrat, Orlando, and that\u2019s the paragraph from his legislative history at Wikipedia. It\u2019s all about me and I never heard of the guy. I never heard of the guy \u2019til his lunatic rant about Republicans: ‘If you get sick, die quickly,\u2019 and now apologizing to the dead and their families we haven\u2019t voted sooner to end this Holocaust in America, meaning the lack of nationalized health care. <\/p>\n

And again, folks, I hope these people keep talking, I hope they just keep talking, and I hope we\u2019re able to amplify them. This is lunacy on parade. They are so arrogant and cocky they\u2019re telling us exactly who they are, some of them are, and Grayson certainly is. But, again, I want to caution you, he says that we Republicans want people to get sick and die quickly. Richard Lamm, 1984, Democrat governor, Colorado, ‘Old people have a duty to die and get out of the way.\u2019 Newsweek magazine, 25 years later, ‘The Case for Pulling the Plug on Granny.\u2019 Then he goes out and says that lack of national health care is a Holocaust while he apologizes to the dead, does this guy have a line to the dead? Do the dead listen to this guy? He apologizes to the dead and their families that we haven\u2019t ended this Holocaust. I just want to remind everybody that Democrats kill people before they\u2019re even born.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Brooklyn first, Ruthy great to have you on the EIB Network hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos from me and my eight Rush Babies. I just wanted to tell you because I was listening and you were mentioning the Holocaust and health care and you\u2019re always saying how words mean things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right, I do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you have people saying Holocaust that is health care throwing out the word Nazi and Hitler, and this morning on the news they were saying that Afghanistan is Vietnam. They don\u2019t realize what a Holocaust is, what Nazi is, and you\u2019re always saying, words mean things. You can\u2019t just throw out words and not understand what you\u2019re saying.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, no, you can, and they do. I mean this is the point. Now, here we have Nancy Pelosi who really got all this started by calling half of Americans Nazis who were showing up at congressional town hall meetings. And then you had the White House describe these people as unruly mobs, then you had the White House dispatch union thugs and start beating up people at town hall meetings, beating up young black conservatives in one case in St. Louis. You have all that going on. I mean this guy, Grayson, clearly an order of fries short of a Happy Meal. The guy is obviously not all there. To compare anything in this country to the Holocaust — of course when I endeavored to intellectually and properly explain the similarities between the National Socialism of Germany and Obama\u2019s health care plan, then they said, ‘You can\u2019t do that, why, Hitler, six million people were killed, you can\u2019t compare.\u2019 No, no, no, I\u2019m not. A lot of stuff happened before the Holocaust and just because the Holocaust happened doesn\u2019t mean we have to ignore everything else Hitler was about and just as Obama is doing, Hitler — well, even prior to Hitler, German socialists attempted to remake and order their country using health care as the springboard and the foundation. <\/line><\/p>\n

Same thing that\u2019s happening here. Hitler was a man of the left. Nazi is simply the term for the national socialists of Germany. They have far more in common, the national socialists and their domestic policies, short of the Holocaust, have far more in common with what Obama is doing than with anybody on the right. So when we make this comparison, after Pelosi calls us all Nazis, ‘All right, you want to call us Nazis, let\u2019s do a comparison, Ms. Pelosi, let\u2019s see really who is closer to the national socialists of Germany.\u2019 So we do that and all of a sudden, ‘You can\u2019t.\u2019 Now we\u2019ve got a guy, a Democrat on the floor of the House, comparing Republican desires on health care to the Holocaust. Now, the Holocaust, six million people were murdered on the basis of their religion. There is nothing comparable to that in this country ever. There are not people dying in this country because they don\u2019t have health insurance. There are people who have health insurance who die. Now, this guy\u2019s running around saying that the Republican Party is running a Holocaust here and that we\u2019re the ones that want people to die. <\/p>\n

We are the ones who get tarred and feathered because we\u2019re pro-life, for crying out loud! Pro-life gets tarred and feathered and impugned and ripped to shreds, and it has been my whole life. Pro-lifers are said to be hicks, hayseeds, a bunch of religious fanatics and so forth. We still sand up for the proposition that all men are created equal, that the spirit of our creation includes a yearning to be free. We\u2019re the ones who stand up as pro-lifers, we\u2019re the ones who take hits and we\u2019ve got some wacko Democrat going to the floor of the House saying that we are running a Holocaust when in fact if there is a Holocaust in this country it is abortion, and there is a particular party that has been responsible for pushing it. And that would be, ahem, the Democrat Party. The closest thing we have to a Holocaust in this country is abortion, on demand, and now we got a health care bill where there will be taxpayer dollars used to facilitate abortion. This clown goes to the floor of the House to accuse us of what they have been doing since 1973. As I say, Democrats kill people before they\u2019re born. So this guy\u2019s an absolute lunatic. <\/p>\n

Now, I remind you also that when Joe Wilson shouted ‘you lie\u2019 to the president from the floor of the House, what happened? Well, a bunch of Republicans beat a path to the microphone, ‘Oh, no, that was wrong, oh, that was terrible, we think he should apologize,\u2019 after he already apologized, ‘that\u2019s just unseemly, that was uncivil, that\u2019s not us, that\u2019s not who we are.\u2019 They ask Elijah Cummings about this Grayson guy, ‘Oh, yeah, he\u2019s exactly right, I can\u2019t say I disagree with him. I got a whole bunch of my constituents in Baltimore dying because they don\u2019t have health insurance.\u2019 They circle the wagons around their own lunatics. We throw our courageous people overboard. We dump our courageous people faster than people swat flies and mosquitoes at a backyard barbecue. But this is 180 degrees out of phase. Yeah, Snerdley, I will say it again, if there is a modern-day Holocaust in this country, it is abortion. And there is a particular party that promotes it and elects candidates and nominates judges on the basis of their position. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t want to be misunderstood here because I\u2019m not trying to make any woman feel guilty about it. We\u2019re talking strictly politics. But the truth is the truth. You know one thing I\u2019ve found people say to me, ‘Boy, Rush, you\u2019ve got guts, I mean you\u2019re willing to –‘ no, I don\u2019t have guts. Everybody else is scared. Everybody else is just scared to say things. You know, I say things that are the truth, they are simple, inarguable truths, and people think that I am using shock techniques. That is an illustration of just how far gone we are, when the truth becomes such a shock, or when somebody dares to express it, ‘Oh, whoa, that\u2019s a shock,\u2019 and then any conservative or Republican truth-sayer is then targeted for destruction, demonization, because the truth is the one thing that liberalism, socialism, fascism, whatever the hell you want to call it, cannot abide. So, yeah, words mean things. At the end of the day I hope this glittering jewel of colossal ignorance keeps piping up. I hope he keeps speaking. I hope he goes to floor of the House and keeps talking like this. The more he says, the more the American people are going to hear it, and the more Democrats that come out and defend him and agree with him, the more we\u2019re going to tell the American people who they are. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nancy Pelosi was asked about Alan Grayson. She said, ‘Apparently Republicans hold Democrats to a higher standard than they hold members of their own party. There\u2019s no reason for Mr. Grayson to apologize. If anybody should apologize everybody should apologize.\u2019 What\u2019s that, if anyone should apologize, everybody should apologize? This woman\u2019s an idiot, too, but there you go: Circling the wagons around Grayson. Hey, frankly, folks, I don\u2019t think he should apologize either. I get caught up in all this silly notion, ‘Hey, you better apologize for saying that!\u2019 He meant to say it. Why should he apologize? ‘But, Rush, he offended people.\u2019 No, he meant to offend people. So why should he apologize? I don\u2019t want the clown to apologize. I want him to keep talking. I want to encourage Mr. Grayson to keep telling it like it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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