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Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed
vvaduva writes "Florida Rep. Alan Grayson wants to see one of his critics go directly to jail, all over her use of the word 'my' on her blog. In a four-page letter sent to [US Attorney General Eric] Holder, Grayson accuses blogger Angie Langley of lying to federal elections officials and requests that she be fined and imprisoned for five years. Her lie, according to Grayson, is that she claims to be one of his constituents. Langley, Grayson says, is misrepresenting herself by using the term 'my' in the Web site's name."
with a tall glass of frosty piss!
This is way off topic, but in response to the above...
I've always considered liberal policies to be the more emotionally based. For instance, universe health care on an emotional basis makes a lot of sense. Consider, for example, Keith Olberman's one hour special appealing for the passage of the health care bill. But if you can overlook the immediate emotion of the issue, issues regarding long term fiscal shortages and potential effects on innovation arise.
Really any social program, from affordable housing to corn subsidies to health care typically relies upon an emotional response for support. "The Poor Farmer" "The Middle Class is being left behind..." Etc...
If you have a heart, its sometimes difficult to remain conservative (at least by my definition). Its difficult to tell senior citizens that we're scaling back medicare because we simply don't have the money to pay for it. Its difficult to tell failing banks and their employees that we're not going to bail them out and that thousands will be laid off because the leaders of those companies made terrible decisions bankrupting the company and its not the government's responsibility to save their ass.
Now please keep in mind that I don't judge a government program based upon what party proposed and/or passed the bill, but by its overall effect. I can't think of a conservative thing the federal government has done since Clinton scaled back welfare.
Accordingly, the asshats currently claiming to be conservatives are just as guilty in relying upon emotional response for expansion of government, e.g. "The terrorists, the terrorists, the terrorists."
We've become (are? always have been?) a reactionary society. The politicians take advantage of this fact to gain and retain power. Its works on both sides of the aisle, but each with its own respective heart strings to pull.
Really? They don't run "Republicans want to kill your chilren" ads in your city?
Nope, my chilren are never threatened in any way by anti-Republican ads. Neither are my kids.
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People who can step back and look at this whole thing impartially realize what we have are a bunch of people with a few negligible external differences but they all pretty much do the same things.
Are you one of these people who couldn't tell the difference between Al Gore and GW Bush?
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Sure I can list differences between Gore and Bush but to what end?
It would refute your claim about all politicians being the same.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
My post is entirely in order and yet you manage to mod it as follows:
60% Troll
20% Insightful
10% Informative
Guess what, my karma is still 'excellent.' Looks like mod bombing is all you have left now that you've lost the argument.
Drill baby drill - on Mars