Grayson's Whore

Alan Grayson is at it again!

The Florida Congressman (whom I voted for), has called out a lobbyist, granted using a generally accepted derogatory term towards women, but his usage of the word was not to imply the woman performed sexual favors for money, but simply because she was in the pocket of the think-tanks and advocacy groups, hence the reference to the District of Columbia's K Street.

Why is this news?

Grayson had recently become a lightening rod for the right because of his comments regarding health care, stating conservative's health plan is for patients to "die quickly", and then likening the current health care to the holocaust.  He has also created a website, NamesOfTheDead.com, to draw attention to the health care debates by emphasizing a Harvard study that shows that 44,000 people per year die from lack of health coverage.  For Republicans, Grayson had become the Democrat's Wilson, but for all reasonable purposes, the comparison stops there.

Wilson interrupted the president addressing a joint session by yelling "You Lie!" during the president's speech, while Grayson has used hyperbole to make a point.  I am happy that Grayson has not apologized for his remarks because he is playing by the Republican handbook, with one exception, and that is to speak the truth, or at least close to the truth.

The Fox News approach to the situation is to probably call for Graysons apology and subsequent resignation, although I must admit that on Greta Van Susteren, they had actually looked into the correct context of the statement, which I will get to in a moment.  The knee jerk reaction from the right is to first condemn, and then secondly, condemn.  They failed to look at the syntax of the comment, as well as the context.  According to Dictionary.com, the definition of "whore", used as a noun, is "a person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain."  In this instance, that person would be Linda Robertson, and her whoring consists of being a lobbyist for big business, such as Enron, which we all know know maintained it's financial superiority by engaging in "institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud."  At that time, Linda Robertson was Enron's top lobbyist, and is now the Fed's, and as Howie Klein posted on the Huffington Post, Grayson has the chops to back up such statements, before he had gone to laws school, Grayson also studied economics at Harvard and was an economist for several years, and so when Robertson attacked congressmen, particularly Grayson and Ron Paul, for pushing for an audit of the Fed, insisting the congressmen are ignorant of the differences between monetary and fiscal policies, Grayson fought back by pointing out here lobbyist ties, albeit rather harshly by calling her a "K Street whore".

It is interesting to note that Republican Congressman Ron Paul's bill in the House has 307 co-sponsors, and the companion bill in the Senate has 30 co-sponsors, consisting of both Democrats and Republicans, so what is the real issue with Grayson, other then a misunderstanding of words?  Afterall, Fox, as well as other conservatives, should be happy that they got a liberal supporting their bills, especially one looking at auditing an entity that the Republicans love to hate!