LOL!!! I love it, I love it. The NRCC is just envious. They know that's an excellent ad.

i was re-reading a few of matt taibbi's articles recently, and came across this, from an april 2009 article about the AIG bailout (and the events that led to it):

Stevens isn't the only person in Congress to be given the finger by the Fed. In January, when Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida asked Federal Reserve vice chairman Donald Kohn where all the money went — only $1.2 trillion had vanished by then — Kohn gave Grayson a classic eye roll, saying he would be "very hesitant" to name names because it might discourage banks from taking the money.

"Has that ever happened?" Grayson asked. "Have people ever said, 'We will not take your $100 billion because people will find out about it?'"

"Well, we said we would not publish the names of the borrowers, so we have no test of that," Kohn answered, visibly annoyed with Grayson's meddling.

Grayson pressed on, demanding to know on what terms the Fed was lending the money. Presumably it was buying assets and making loans, but no one knew how it was pricing those assets — in other words, no one knew what kind of deal it was striking on behalf of taxpayers. So when Grayson asked if the purchased assets were "marked to market" — a methodology that assigns a concrete value to assets, based on the market rate on the day they are traded — Kohn answered, mysteriously, "The ones that have market values are marked to market." The implication was that the Fed was purchasing derivatives like credit swaps or other instruments that were basically impossible to value objectively — paying real money for God knows what.

"Well, how much of them don't have market values?" asked Grayson. "How much of them are worthless?"

"None are worthless," Kohn snapped.

"Then why don't you mark them to market?" Grayson demanded.

"Well," Kohn sighed, "we are marking the ones to market that have market values."

i guess he probably WILL be a one-term congressman. way too smart and cares way too much.

anyway, here's the link to the whole taibbi article: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

Truth? What's that?

And what does "NRCC spokesman Andy Seré" think of Michelle Bachmann's "antics"? That they are an example of reasoned and reasonable debate

Seré deserves to be ignored and Grayson supported.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1YbPIFnQ1c

People with children, people without children, AND people with beards support Alan Grayson!

I don't care what I have to do. I will make sure this guy stays in congress even if I have to call all the people in his district personally.