Alan Grayson played a large part in 2009 being termed "The Year of the Political Jackass." It seems he's picked up right where he left off, wondering aloud on MSNBC whether Satan was writing the foreward to Dick Cheney's book.That's actually a somewhat humorous line, and far more amusing than Grayson's previous dig against Cheney when he said he has trouble listening to what [Vice President Dick Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he's talking."
Even less funny is the fact that Grayson is one of those rare birds: a petulant demagogue who dishes out the nastiest rhetoric imaginable but who turns into a goose-stepping fascist when someone has the temerity to criticize him.
Hence Grayon's ridiculous 4-page letter last month asking Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute a woman named Angie Langley who set up a website critical of Grayson called "MyCongressmanIsNuts.com."
Among Grayson's complaints - I kid you not - was that "Ms. Langley has chosen a name for her committee that is utterly tasteless and juvenile." Cue the laugh track.
Even the Orlando Sentinel editorial page - not exactly a bastion of right wing nuts - slammed Grayson for the move, calling it "an odd and ironic response from Mr. Grayson, one of the most intemperate voices in Washington."
One can only hope the good folks in Florida's 8th Congressional district will make this Grayson's last year in office.