Health Care: Democrat feeds the GOP a bitter pill

In his short career in Congress, Florida Democratic freshman Alan Grayson has become one of my political heroes. You remember those pages Republicans kept waving during Pres. Obama's health care address to Congress? Rep. Grayson found out what is in those pages -- the Republican health care plan: "1. Don't get sick. 2. If you do get sick... 3. Die quickly!"
Naturally, the Republicans, who can dish it out but oh so can't take it, started whining and puling, demanding an apology. And they got it:
Grayson, by the way, is the member of Congress who used a little-known parliamentary maneuver called “extension of remarks” to expand the impact of the House's opportunistic bill to defund ACORN (HR 3221) to every contractor who has ever submitted a fraudulent form of any kind to the Government.

House rules allow a short period for members to offer a "legislative history," instructing the courts and the executive branch on how to interpret a law. According to "Thomas," Congress’s website on legislation, Grayson is the only member of Congress to provide such instruction on this bill. His extension of remarks now becomes the official interpretation of what the bill means:

"The purpose of this bill is to cleanse federal contracting and grant-making, completely and permanently. The purpose of this bill is to put an end to the invidious practice of rewarding those who steal taxpayer money by giving them more taxpayer money. The bill imposes, and is intended to impose, a corporate death penalty on contractors who fall within the scope of its prohibitions," Rep. Grayson wrote in his extension of remarks. So long, Halliburton. Bye bye, Blackwater.

At last, a fighting liberal (just for the fun of it, watch Grayson take on Fed chair Bernanke), a Democrat worth supporting. And you can support him by sending contributions to his office. And you'd better support him, because you can bet the long knives are out for him now.