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Last week, one of my opponents put out an ad saying that if I’m elected, then next year, I will triple gas prices, prohibit guns and ammunition, and close down children’s lemonade stands.
I assured him that I would not do any of those things. Nor would I remove the tin foil from his skull.
That made me think of some more things that I probably won’t do next year:
(1) Institute universal healthcare.
(2) Provide jobs to 20+ million underemployed Americans.
(3) Make pensions and sick leave and paid vacations the norm.
(4) End corporate welfare.
(5) Re-institute progressive taxation.
(6) Provide higher education to every student who wants it.
(7) Take corporate money out of politics.
(8) Purge us of discrimination against minorities, women and gays.
(9) Reduce the brutal, pervasive inequality.
(10) Bring the troops home.
No, I don’t think that I’m going to accomplish any of those things next year. But if I’m elected, I’m going to try. I’m sure going to try.
Courage,
Alan Grayson
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That’s a fine list of goals to work on. Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers are scary guys.
You were a good guy for standing up to the Republicans and telling the truth about them.
HCR with public option evolved quickly into HIR with no public option. Selling the public a bill which gave AHIP more control and power over us was not good (Also no cost controls). If you had opposed it, you probably would have kept your seat. Principles.
Also, why does the USA have an “irrevocable bond” with Israel? Does the US have such a bond with any other foreign nation? If not, why not?
Forget it… I believe he’s just here to pile up beltway bubble brownie points by pretending to take on the “looney left.”
So the drive-by posts will continue. And perhaps the posts really will reassure the bubble-bound that Grayson remains reliable… that is, as our owners define reliable.
I would be more interested if he actually responded to comments. I’m sure these are assembled and posted by a staff member. I don’t think he should be allowed to use FDL for fund raising, even if he wants to post his views here.
Well, FDL has done work with ActBlue fundraisers in the past. I know Jane has done it for Kucinich here.
I really don’t see the point of these drive-by diaries at a discussion site where the author obviously has no intention of discussing anything at all. They are essentially just spam, like the comments promoting fake luxury brand knock-offs from China.
If Mister Grayson or other diarists who do these drive-bys just want us to read their self-promotional advertising, maybe they should consider buying banner space here and supporting the site in a substantive way.
Your second paragraph sums things up very well, Kurt.
Mr. Grayson provides two links … the same link, actually, asking for money.
If he understands “support” to be, essentially, about money, then haw much, exactly, is he willing to “support” FireDogLake?
Presumably, he has the means of doing so?
Apparently, he is of the opinion, that support goes only … one way.
We are supposed, it is assumed, apparently, by Mr. Grayson, to have his buck … er back, but he need never really have ours. The fact that he sees no need to respond, ever, to the comments here, nor, apparently to the sentiments and genuine concerns that are articulated with precision and great honesty, suggests that “it” is “about” Mr. Grayson and with HIS future, that Mr. Grayson is primarily “concerned”.
A very serious problem which he shares with the political class, generally.
DW
Let me guess number (11): Stand up to Israel?