K St. whore...

(grayson.house.gov)

Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida has apologized for calling an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a "K Street whore."

"I offer my sincere apology to Linda Robertson, an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke," Grayson said in a statement emailed to reporters. "I did not intend to use a term that is often, and correctly, seen as disrespectful of women."

"This characterization of Ms. Robertson, made during a radio interview last month in the context of the debate over whether the Federal Reserve should be independently audited, was inappropriate, and I apologize," he added.

"Let’s be clear about the context," Todd Jurkowski, Grayson's spokesman, said earlier today. "The attack was on her professional career, not her personal life."

"She attacked the Congressman and his efforts to promote a Republican bill to audit the Federal Reserve," Jurkowski said of Robertson. "She actually questioned his understanding of the difference between fiscal and monetary policy. She had the audacity to attack a Congressman who used to be an economist. She's a career lobbyist who used to work for Enron and advocates for whatever she gets paid to promote."

K Street is where many Washington lobbyists work, and "K Street whore" is a derogatory – though not uncommon – phrase used to describe them in the nation's capital.

Just a few months ago, Grayson was a Florida House freshman with virtually no national name recognition. But he burst onto the scene in September when he suggested on the House floor that the Republican health care plan is "to die quickly if you get sick."

Called upon to apologize for those comments, Grayson instead apologized to "the dead and their families that we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America."

Earlier this month he set up a Web site called NamesOfTheDead.com intended to draw attention to people who die without health coverage.

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He also called the Republican party the enemy.
While I wouldn't go that far he is on the right track.

The Republicans gave the Criminal banking mafia,
$700,000,000,000 billion dollar bail out.
But not the poor Americans without access to
medical health services.

And people WITH OUT INSURANCE have a 40%
higher chance of dying, and the Insurance Cos have
increased profits 400% in the past 5 years.
And did you know the big not for profit Insurance
Cos. are gone, Blue Cross and Blue Shield were bought
out by the big insurance cos, and turned into for
profit Corporations.
That took care of the competition.

And every Republican, every one is voting
for the Insurance Cos and against the dying
American public.
Paradigm Intel says:
This will haunt the Republicans, they are
on the wrong side of history.
It will cost them seats.

Grayson is on target. He has his head on
straight.


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Anthropologist

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