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Old 12-04-2010, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Alan Grayson's abrasiveness will be missed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqQn1_x5C3I&feature=player_embedded#!
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Old 12-04-2010, 08:01 AM
 
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Using FOX, Rush, et al. to make his case?
Any message he was trying to deliver, was lost in the bitter and immature manner in which he utilized media rivals as his talking points.

Greyson comes off like a vindictive ex. and shows he was voted out for good reason.
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Old 12-04-2010, 08:08 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Using FOX, Rush, et al. to make his case?
Any message he was trying to deliver, was lost in the bitter and immature manner in which he utilized media rivals as his talking points.

Greyson comes off like a vindictive ex. and shows he was voted out for good reason.
And yet everything he said was true.
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Old 12-04-2010, 08:09 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Grayson's idiocy won't be missed. If Grayson had bothered to learn the truth, he would already know this: Remember Christina Romer? She used to be Obama's economic advisor. Her research found that tax increases hurt the economy.
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What the Romers found is that exogenous tax increases, such as will occur with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, “… are highly contractionary. The effects are strongly significant, highly robust, and much larger than those obtained using broader measures of tax changes.”
Here is a strong argument, based on solid academic research, for extending the Bush tax cuts, and not letting them expire, made by one of President Obama’s top economic advisers.
Romer’s Research: Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts Will Be Highly Contractionary | The Beacon (http://www.independent.org/blog/index.php?p=6958 - broken link)

Romer's research:
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~dromer/pap...ERJune2010.pdf (broken link)

As "the rich" pay a large percentage of the federal income tax revenue, the effect of not extending the tax cuts at that level would exacerbate the highly contractionary effect on the economy.

Romer knows the truth. She subsequently resigned her post as Obama's economic advisor, and is no longer with the Obama admin.

Are you really so easily manipulated by Grayson and the other Dems? Do you just accept what they say without verifying the accuracy, or even the relevance? ...at least Grayson's constituency had the good sense to vote him out of office!
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Old 12-04-2010, 08:13 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Are you really so easily manipulated by Grayson and the other Dems? Do you just accept what they say without verifying the accuracy, or even the relevance? ...at least Grayson's constituency had the good sense to vote him out of office!
Grayson is from a Republican district. It makes sense, as he too is very wealthy.

His reelection campaign was far too mean spirited, and it backfired, but the truth this man speaks is unchanged, whether or not he is in Congress ore not.

ALWAYS verify accuracy. What he said about the pundits and their tax breaks in the video?

ALL TRUE.

Also good to hear that woman is no longer in the administration.
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Old 12-04-2010, 08:14 AM
 
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And yet everything he said was true.
Was it a secret that the few foils Greyson mentioned were wealthy?
It was a petty rant and did no good for his constituency or America at large.
His bobble headed fan club in the cheap seats loved it I'm sure, but I'll bet it didn't change one mind.
So much for his skills as an effective communicator, he obviously was no trial lawyer.
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Old 12-04-2010, 08:16 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Was it a secret that the few foils Greyson mentioned were wealthy?
It was a petty rant and did no good for his constituency or America at large.
His bobble headed fan club in the cheap seats loved it I'm sure, but I'll bet it didn't change one mind.
So much for his skills as an effective communicator, he obviously was no trial lawyer.
Much like the bobbleheaded viewers of FOX News.

(Let me put on my glasses and head over to the chalkboard... )
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Old 12-04-2010, 08:18 AM
 
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Much like the bobbleheaded viewers of FOX News.

(Let me put on my glasses and head over to the chalkboard... )
Greyson, is that you?

I don't watch FOX or Beck anyway, so your point is lost on me.

Other than a rambling personal attack,did Greyson present any facts as to why the tax cuts should expire?
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Old 12-04-2010, 08:20 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Grayson is from a Republican district. It makes sense, as he too is very wealthy.

His reelection campaign was far too mean spirited, and it backfired, but the truth this man speaks is unchanged, whether or not he is in Congress ore not.

ALWAYS verify accuracy. What he said about the pundits and their tax breaks in the video?

ALL TRUE.
And the point of Grayson's diatribe is what? To rally the Dems to cause further economic contraction? Is that the Dems' goal? Interesting...

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Also good to hear that woman is no longer in the administration.
Wow. Truthful, factual information has no place in the Obama admin? Really?

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Old 12-04-2010, 08:35 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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And he wonders why he got tossed!

Beck has paid more taxes than Grayson ever will, in his life of trying to wiggle out of them.
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