This "will he apologize/condemn/disown?" BS is getting out of hand...on both sides. (I thought the House motion to slap Joe Wilson on the wrist was stupid...the guy did enough to make himself stupid and it should have been left at that.) Is this a recent phenomenom? If yes, why? (Will the GOP and pundits say Obama invited this silliness because he said he was going to "change the tone" in DC?) And just why in the hell is Obama responsible for apologizing for/condemning every Dem in the country, especially black Dems? (or just blacks in general)

Denounced and REJECTED!

Yo Repubs:

Go-fuck-yourselves, and all you stand for!

If y'all remember, the GOPs decried Obama's description of Sgt. Crowley as "stupid" and demanded an apology. What did Obama do?

Obama Regrets 'Stupid' Comments

I don't think Obama should retract his praise or do anything about this.

However, I'm curious about the GOP outrage and Grayson's reasoning. Would the GOP had been outraged had the lobbyist in question were male?

And Grayson's explanation is strange, too. He's referring to her professional life, not character, and therefore, that's ok? Lobbyists = whores?

As an amateur lobbyist at my state government, I think Grayson's hyperbole should get him in trouble. I know I'm going to get a raft of crap for echoing Hillary Clinton, but lobbyists do some good. Painting all of them as whores is kind of obnoxious. But then, I find Grayson (while entertaining) kind of obnoxious as well.

More from the Salon bit
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/27/grayson/index.html

It was about a month ago that Grayson gave an interview to "The Alex Jones Show," which is home to a wide array of old-school right-wing conspiracy theorizing -- think the Bilderberg Group, Wall Street and Barack Obama conspiring to bring about the New World Order. You get the idea.

In the Jones interview, Grayson opined that Fed advisor Linda Robertson, with whom he has had some sharp exchanges, is a “K Street whore.”

There is, theoretically, a valid way to express the idea that the Fed apparatus often appears to be in hock to the business lobby. It’s a point that’s been made in Salon, in fact, over and over. But "The Alex Jones Show" is a place to choose your words carefully (or, even better, to avoid altogether).

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.

Great, so it’s not so much that Grayson is worried about the Fed’s independence -- he's more just pissed that Robertson hasn’t paid him sufficient personal deference.

Congressmen and congresswomen are the whores. They get paid (campaign contributions) to service the groups who hire the lobbyists. Gives new meaning to sucking up.

Yeah. But calling Obama a communist, socialist, Muslim terrorist is just fine.
Unwad your panties.

From the American Heritage Dictionary:

"verb (used with object)
to make a whore of; corrupt; debauch"

Sounds like a K-Street Lobbyist to me. Geesh, the Republicans now not only hate America, they're also against the English Language.

The "A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Al Queda" GOP wants an apology?

Pathetic.

This is just too much of hot air. No one cares that Republicans were insulted- a bunch of them are in fact K-Street Whores.

Let's be clear.

Anyone who was the CHIEF LOBBYIST for Enron is, by definition, a whore.

Hell, I bet the Oxford English Dictionary editors are working right now to make sure her photo is put in the next OED, under "whore."

Who could possibly be a bigger whore than the chief lobbyist for Enron? It's an awfully high bar.

In other news, Rush Limbaugh Tuesday called the President of the United States "... this little boy, this little man-child president ... "

That is a white man calling a grown black man, who happens to be the leader of the free world, "little boy ..."

There are no words to describe how offensive that is.

I am not aware that GOP has asked Rush Limbaugh to apologize.

So Alan Grayson works for the WH now?

The administration's proper response?

"The President is not spending his time worrying over a lobbyist getting their feelings hurt by blunt language. He is more focused on getting healthcare coverage for all Americans, reviving the economy..."

And and reiterate that over and over again and this nonteversy goes away and makes the feigned outrage by the GOP seem stupid (which it is).