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Alan Grayson (D, FL) wants to assign his House seat to his girlfriend.

Speaking as a Republican propagandist and general troublemaker, I love Florida: I truly do.  It never disappoints me.  Case in point: not only is Alan Grayson running for Senate – because, hey, why would the Democrats want to have both Senate seats in Florida, right? – but he wants his girlfriend to take over his House seat (H/T: @TheRickWilson). “As Florida Rep. Alan Grayson mulls a Senate campaign to the consternation of national Democrats, his girlfriend is quietly preparing her own bid to succeed Grayson in the House, POLITICO has learned.” Her name is Dena Minning, and while under normal circumstances I would readily concede that somebody with a doctorate in biochemistry isn’t a bad get for a House seat in this particular case that’s more than offset by the fact that Dr. Minning apparently thinks that it’s a good idea to date Alan Grayson*.

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Quote of the Day, @TheRickWilson Tells It Like It Is About An Alan Grayson Senate Campaign edition.

Oh, this is some prime stuff. Gold. Gold, Jerry!

Republicans, for their part, seem positively giddy at the prospect of [Alan] Grayson in a Senate general election. As Rick Wilson, a prominent Republican consultant in Florida, chortled, “He’d be a mixture of Sharron Angle, Todd Akin, and Hannibal Lecter.” While Wilson said Grayson would be nearly unbeatable in a Democratic primary, he gave him little chance in a statewide election in November. Wilson did add the caveat that he could see a path to victory for Grayson “if all the other Republican candidates were found to be part of a child pornography ring.”

…Yeah, maybe a little unfair to Sharron Angle, but she did under-perform.

Via @BenjySarlin, whose quote of the title (“Florida’s Craziest Liberal Wants to Be a Senator. It’s Nice to Want Things.”) reminds me of one of my late father’s favorite sayings (“It’s Good To Want.”). So I am actually well-disposed and beaming serenely at the the Daily Beast, at this precise moment in time.  …Yeah, I dunno how long that’ll last, either.  Hopefully until after lunch?  I like cheerful lunches.

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Alan Grayson thinking of running for FL-SEN. …Because Jesus loves me.

Well, He loves everybody; but apparently I did something really, really good lately. Like, spectacularly good.

…because oh man but that would be fun.

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PS: Click the link for the icing on the cake. There’s apparently only one thing that might keep Alan Grayson from running, and it’s arguably even a more entertaining scenario.

Alan Grayson touches, for a moment, his former idiotic glory.

I personally think that it’s adorable that Alan Grayson thinks that he’d actually be a benefit for the Democratic party in this situation: “Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) said in an interview Friday that he is ready and willing to serve on the House Republican committee slated to investigate the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.”  Alas, I don’t think that Nancy Pelosi would be dumb enough to give him a spot.  If for no other reason than the Democrats, rhetoric to the side, know better than to appoint the House’s most pathetic rodeo clown* to a critical committee.  I mean, shoot, the man’s currently trying to ‘win’ his exceedingly messy divorce by claiming bigamy. You really want him to be the face of the Democratic party’s response to Benghazi?

…Because I do.  I’ll take a free win, sure.

Via Hot Air Headlines.

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*My apologies to rodeo clowns.

It’s like Alan Grayson has to find new and exciting ways to be a putz.

I cannot imagine doing something like this to my children.

When U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson married his wife, she was already wed to another man, according to a new court filing by the congressman’s lawyers, seeking an annulment on the basis 

And by ‘this’ I mean ‘making horribly public allegations about their mother.’ I don’t have the slightest idea whether said allegations are true or not, but good Lord.  How was the man planning to explain this to his youngest children? Continue reading It’s like Alan Grayson has to find new and exciting ways to be a putz.

Dagnabbit. I had an AWESOME @AlanGrayson slam…

…all set to go: but then I remembered that people who are amiable, middle aged, and frankly stout should not make sardonic commentary about people who are also middle aged and stout (replace ‘amiable’ with ‘filled with a seething, soul-corrupting rage’ in Alan Grayson’s case, of course).

So I’ll just note that Mrs. Grayson is now alleging adultery on her husband’s part, and avoid discussing, ah, probabilities. Continue reading Dagnabbit. I had an AWESOME @AlanGrayson slam…

Alan Grayson (D, FL), Barbara Lee (D, CA), & Jan Schakowsky (D, IL) tried to consult with terrorist-led group on drone strikes.

‘Terrorist-led’ being the opinion of the United States government, by the way.

There are two problems with this.

Mohammad Al Ahmady, the Yemen director for Geneva-based NGO Al Karama, was expected to brief Reps. Alan Grayson (D., Fla.), Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), and Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.) the morning of the Nov. 19, according to press release from Grayson’s office.

Several Al Karama officials have faced terrorism allegations. Al Karama’s founder and current president Abdul Rahman Naimi was designated as a terrorist and al Qaeda supporter by the U.S. Treasury Department in December, along with the group’s Yemen representative Abdulwahab Al-Humayqani. Al Karama’s legal director, Rachid Mesli, is currently wanted for terrorism charges in Algeria.

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Alan Grayson just needs a little something to tide him over. Just a little, to get his head straight.

There ain’t nothing so sad as a junkie looking for a fix.

If you don’t feel like clicking through, it’s a link to a site reproducing a presumably official Alan Grayson tweet bragging about the fact that Gawker once called him a hero.  Put to the side that it’s Gawker – it’s also old. Certainly not for anything Grayson’s done this term, because he’s done jack.

Ach, how the measly have fallen.

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RS Interview: Mark Oxner (R CAND, FL-09 PRI).

FL-09 is, of course, the district that Alan Grayson is currently hoping to carpetbag – apparently the poor fellow has discovered that he has precisely zero reason to exist, outside of Congress.  It’s very sad – and the GOP is equally hopeful that they can stop him. I talked to one of the candidates last week: Mark Oxner, businessman.  We discussed the race, and a good bit about why Mark was running.

Mark’s site is here; the primary is August 14th.

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