Regardless of your Bill Maher opinion - worth it for Grayson alone. He has a number of great lines in his appearance on last night. Again he shows his intelligence, populist charm, humor and compassion. What a clear thinker. Also - we learn of Grayson's opposition to the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.
My favorite line :
On Republicans' idea of health care reform:
Their idea of health care reform would be to allow you to take your gun to your doctors office
cross posted at The Progressive Electorate
Update: Thanks for rec list -here's link to Grayson on my Act Blue Page
Some of the memorable lines from our newest political hero. I wish Maher would have interviewed Grayson for an hour. But then that means I would have had to listen to Maher for an hour.
On being a Populist
Put some jam on the bottom shelf where the little man can reach it
On Obama and Health Care Reform
The President doesn't want to have Clinton's experience in office . . . Letting Congress decide how to do things and it's going way too slow . . We gotta pick up the pace
"I understand what the president's doing, and you know, people attack him and he turns the other cheek, just like a good Muslim would do."
On Fox News and right wing attack on him
Of course that line will be taken out of context and shown on Faux News as Maher suggest.
Grayson responds
They (Faux) don't understand humor. They have no sense of humor. . . They have plenty of material already
On Afghanistan
That's ridiculous. We are fighting a 14th Century Enemy with an 18th Century strategy. There is no reason why we need to be there. We are not safer by being in Afghanistan. People say to me when should we get out and I say last year or the year before.
On the Nobel Peace Prize
I think he will win a second Nobel Prize for Peace for getting out of Afghanistan and a third for getting out of Iraq
On Funding the Wars
We could pay for health care for everyone in this country that doesn't have it by ending the war in Iraq . . . I would be against anyone sending any troops anywhere unless there is a good reason for it and I haven't heard a good reason yet.