Avlon: 'Wingnut' in desperate bid for attention

I find it disingenuous that a member of the conservative Cato Institute is now so concerned about the growth of government spending. George W. Bush began his administration with a budget surplus. Two wars and two huge tax cuts later, we now have a serious deficit. Where were these deficit hawks during the Bush administration? And let's remember that anyone who expressed skepticism about the Iraq War was branded as soft on terrorism. Look at what the right did to Max Cleland.

The message I received from you commentary is that it is fine to be skeptical of government now that Obama is president. Why didn't you say the same thing 8 years ago?

Remember when a hand shake was a persons word & bond? That you COULD trust what someone told you. Today, you cannot trust anyone. Even if you have a legal contract you had better read the fine print, or hope your attorney is on top of his game to catch and decipher the legalese BS!

In his Wingnuts of the Week segment this morning Avion said about Rep Grayson's emotional readings of letters from people with health care problems that "crying is the new black" implying that Grayson's emotions were not real. Just what does Avion mean by "crying is the new black."

Are you kidding me !!!! You always distrust the govt and thats why you so closely scrutinize everything they do, the people should completely and absolutely control their government and that includes replacing it when necessary. Our Constitution says that our govt should be replace every 50 years....Completely replaced !!!!! Read the constitution people....dont be so stupid and ignorant!! Its time for a Revolution...just like in 1776 and replace the government completely they ...and their liberal cronies are destroying our country and our values!! We are a country founded on Christian principles and freedom of worshiping the One True God and Our Savior Jesus Christ !!! We are not a religious country and we do not promote and accept other religious values and false Christian ideas !! We read and trust in the THE WORD of GOD, completely and wholey!! We now have a socialist ...community activist President who wants to destroy America as it was founded and destroy our constitution...and he may have not even been born here in America but yet we let this go unvetted !! Whats wrong with us??? I am in the military and I took an oath to support and defend the American Constitution...not an American false President !! Cash for clunkers didnt work...didnt do a thing....stimulus...didnt do a thing....Govt run health care.....give me a break ...what a joke !! Bring back Pres Bush and hold the Liberal Dems....Dodd and Frank for their gross abuse of power and corruption and for causing this financial and economic mess that we are now in with their forcing of banks to make loans to low income families that could not afford it!! Where is the media about this !!!

Rep. Grayson's comments are a little over the top perhaps, but I think he is basically right. The Republicans seem to be doing everything in their power to sabotage this administration. That is borderline treason and unamerican. I think we should split the country into two seperate regions. One part for those who are Democrats and the other for those who are wrong!

Alan Grayson may be a "wing nut" in your corporate media world that has shifted so far to the right over the past 40 years in response to the 60s that anything short of Limbaugh is branded communist,...

However in the real world and in the lives of many Americans Grayson speaks volumes about the real disconnect that exists in this country...

But Right Wing Propaganda Can't Hide This Fact Forever:
If The Truths That Alan Grayson and Others Like Him Speak Is Wing Nut ? Better Include Me And Most Of The Average People I Know or Meet On A Daily Basis On That List.....

Maybe Grayson Is The Sort Of "Wing Nut" Kept Silent Too Long...

Sad Too That YOUR corporate media was silent while a string of "Criminals Elements" like: Liddy and North became "heros"... Or Media Criminals like The Savage's, Limbaugh's, Malkin's, Gingrich, and the rest of that Right Wing Nut media crew hijacked the national soap box on the way to taking this country to "THE EDGE" of destruction with 9/11, 2 wars, and "The Greed" of the current economic meltdown and beyond...

All That Cost A Lot Of Lives and A National Damage Beyond Repair...
All Veterans and Their Families Know That 1st Hand...

William, where do you come from, this kind of religious fanaticism is what the terrorists from the middle east preach!!!!! You, sir, are a clear and present danger to this Nation and I, for one, will fight in EVERY way your kind of totalitarian, fascist idea of Amerika. Name the time and place buddy, let's get the 2nd civil war going. You are the kind of hate filled religious racist that is a true enemy of America.

For William: you got the wrong section to show your...um, opinion. As for being in the military, I seriously doubt it. But then you are obviously just someone wanting space to rant and rave. Isn't there a TEA party for you to go to?

All have forgotten that they are there to support and improve America. They scream what is wrong but offer no solutions or slander others who try to offer solutions. They have forgotten that America, the once called Great Experiment, is a work in progress and that it has been and will be as long as Americans regognize that we can make it better. It is a shame that we have allowed these people (of both parties) to be elected and to have allowed the to hijack a once great Nation in the name of their particular extreme views. I find it very sad.

Avalon, a little out of touch, you are my dip @hit of the week.

William, you can't be serious. Wait..... you are? *sigh* Do you, by chance, live under high-tension power lines? This is a prime example of the Chicken Little rhetoric the floundering "right" can't seem to distance themselves from. That's why they're on their way out, thankfully.

Hey guys....lets do everything we can to support Grayson and this administration. How else will we be ushered into a bankrupt and socolist future.

When we watch 30 out 40 Republican Senators vote to support and promote gang rape by Halliburton KBR employees, The Republican Party has become the enemy of not only of all US citizens, but of all good and decent people, and honor and morality everywhere in the world.

The Republican Party is a Cancer on America.

The conservative repubs remind me of the Taliban. They don't care what anybody on earth thinks it's either their way or no way at all.
Thank God everybody woke up and are now voting them out of power in every county in America. That's what happened in November at the federal level – out of town on a rail.
The repubs hate that the people are ignoring them and getting nastier about it week by week. When Grayson stands up and yells at them he is called a wingnut? I call him a brave patriot. After all, they have blasted him from all sides as being Satan himself. When he swings back they whine like little babies.
I'm on his side and I hope he continues to call them out for what they are some of the meanest people on earth. The other thing the repubs are is irrelevant and that is the best news of all.

Grayson is a coward who tried to hide from a FOX news reporter asking about his comments. He even tried to have security officers remove this reporter from a PUBLIC BUILDING because he couldn't leave early and was sick of hiding in his office, and our president has the nerve to PRAISE him! Republicans want you to die early? Why doesn't he smack his head into his office door a few times. Maybe it'll knock some sense into him. He and his cronies are going to damage our country so much during their present reign we will struggle for years to recover. Also, their divisive policies and name calling sounds like spoiled children in the playground. The problem is this playground is in Washington. And as far as our "Saviour" goes, when he opened his mouth in the Lewis Gates issue he showed his true colors. Doesn't Obama know anything about history and how presidents should be "above the fray"? Remember Nixon and Manson? Nixons comments to the press almost caused a mistrial.
And Mr. President, you only make your so called "enemies" stronger with your circumvention of our constitution and your lack of a vetting process. Dump the CZARS!!! You have the worst selection of people working for you I have EVER seen in my 58 years. Yes, we know who you are now by the socialists and Mao worshippers, tax cheats, NAMBLA members anti- 2nd ammendment clowns radicals, and who knows who else may crawl out from under the rocks . And just so the critics who read this know my stand, I constantly critisized Bush as well.
It's finally time for true Americans to stand up and make noise. You polititians and YOU too Mr. President, work For US!!! Start showing it or get lost.

Our media outlets (a.k.a., news organizations, politicians, preferred and not so preferred popular show hosts, columnists and political pundits) are only doing what we the american public want them to do. We/they seem hell bent on having a public divide with little middle ground and they're only spewing the fuel we're asking for....hmmm, there is this James Bond movie with some media mogul that tried to nuke China to control the ensuing war for ratings..... hmmm. If we didn't love it so much we wouldn't be here venting on our perceptions of what is right and wrong, as if it matters to anyone other than the media outlet that gets ad revenue from hosting it for our increasing hypertension and pleasure.

As Ralph Patch below pitches from the ultra left for a divide, I agree, let's split it up. All the liberal, socialist, far left Grayson supporters who think he's politically correct move west of the Mississippi (that's left towards California for those who failed to pass 5th grade geography). The far right, democratic capitalists who believe in God and guns move to the East side of the Mississipi (that would be right, again for those who failed to pass 5th grade geography – no prejudice here, every country needs idiots). Or maybe we use the old North – South lines of old. Whatever. You all move as soon as possible and we'll send Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the do nothing House to you, with whatever illegal aliens we can find for the new socialist utopia. You can call it " The Socialist States of Obamica". The rest of us, including me if you haven't figured it out yet, that remain east will go about the business of "failing" the good socialist scorecard and being dowright arrogant to the rest of the world as we've done since the birth of this nation. May you all prosper in your new utopia. May the capitalists suffer the wrath of capitalism and democracy under the constitution, as we have since the brith of this country.

I don't think Grayson is a wingnut. I think he is finally giving voice to what the rest of us feel. After the Bush administration and its attacks on the Constitution and their bad economics policies have seriously impacted our family, I have begun to look at Republicans as enemies. Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bauchmann, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity are not my countrymen. They do not share my values of freedom of speech, the right to live a life with access to affordable health care, education, and the expectation that employers and bankers treat me ethically and legally. When an entire party has joined together to stop 45 million Americans from having insurance and stop the rest of us from getting fair treatment from insurance companies, then what are they but enemies? When they allow corporations to destroy our jobs by making reckless investments, take our neighbors homes after predatory lending, send our young men and women to die for a lie in Iraq, what are they if not enemies? They are certainly not my friends.

William,

“We are a country founded on Christian principles and freedom of worshiping the One True God and Our Savior Jesus Christ !!! We are not a religious country and we do not promote and accept other religious values and false Christian ideas !! We read and trust in the THE WORD of GOD, completely and wholey!!”

You obviously skipped your history classes, and yet you want us to think you have read the US Constitution? LOL!

This jokester must be an Okie... religious to the hilt, ignorant about the founding of our country, my way or the highway type, very similar to the Senators from Oklahoma. What an embarrassment for Oklahoma!

Amen Pam Crabtree! Great response, and so darn true! I really believe it's because those that voted for Bush not once, but twice are embarassed, and like Bush? they will never admit a mistake! Shame on you that don't support our President. What are you traitors? That's what the Bush administration would call you!