Tag: Alan Grayson
Wiretap: The American dream, dead in the old south
In the American South, social mobility is worse than any developed country for which we have numbers.
YouTube of the week: Grayson’s other public option
It has been a week since Florida Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, aghast with the shenanigans on Capitol Hill, took matters into his own...
Phone-tamperer O’Keefe’s bad week gets worse: Judge rules ACORN defunding unconstitutional
James O'Keefe has admitted spearheading a misguided "phone-tampering" operation at Sen. Mary Landieu's office in New Orleans this week. "As an investigative journalist,...
Dem. Grayson apologizes for health reform remarks after GOP uproar
Dave Weigel at the Washington Independent, the Colorado Independent's sister site, has been following the saga of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who incited a...
Media watch: GOP and Politico tag-team vulnerable Dems
The National Republican Congressional Committee told Politico yesterday it was targeting swing-district Democratic officials, like Colorado's freshman Rep. Betsy Markey. The NRCC said it was going to wage an expensive attack campaign featuring TV and radio ads in districts around the country. But it didn't do that. Instead, it spent not a dollar in simply telling Politico it was going to do that and Politico wrote all about it. Nasty work, and done dirt cheap!