{"id":7316,"date":"2010-10-08T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7316"},"modified":"2010-10-08T16:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:23:43","slug":"democratic-rep-alan-grayson%e2%80%99s-days-numbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7316\/democratic-rep-alan-grayson%e2%80%99s-days-numbered\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson\u2019s Days Numbered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Reps. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/dingell-trailing-republican-39-44_501130.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Dingell<\/a> (D-MI) and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/775-sean-bielat-the-man-who-wants-to-beat-barney-frank \" target=\"_blank\">Barney Frank<\/a> (D-MA), another incumbent Democrat congressman is looking at the very real possibility of losing his seat on November 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.\u00a0 And because of his stunts, it couldn\u2019t happen to a better poster child for partisan politics than Florida\u2019s Alan Grayson.\u00a0 Byron York provides a nice <a href=\": http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/Trash-talking-Democrat-faces-defeat-in-Florida-1148394-104530214.html#ixzz11nfGkriS\" target=\"_blank\">summary of Grayson\u2019s offenses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grayson has been involved in so many dust-ups, scrapes and other indignities that it&#8217;s surprising to realize he has only been in office 20 months. From describing the Republican health plan as hoping the sick will &#8220;die quickly&#8221; to calling a top official at the Federal Reserve a &#8220;K Street whore&#8221; to saying of former Vice President Dick Cheney that &#8220;blood &#8230; drips from his teeth while he&#8217;s talking&#8221; to &#8220;Taliban Dan&#8221; &#8212; well, a lot of people in Florida and Washington won&#8217;t be sad to see him go.<\/p>\n<p>A poll taken by Sunshine State News at the time of the ad controversy showed Webster with a 7-point lead, 43 percent to 36 percent. Barring any unforeseen events, that&#8217;s likely to hold. The 8th District was Republican for almost 30 years, until the Obama-Grayson victories of 2008. Now it appears to be moving back to the GOP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with Reps. John Dingell (D-MI) and Barney Frank (D-MA), another incumbent Democrat congressman is looking at the very real possibility of losing his seat on November 2nd.\u00a0 And because of his stunts, it couldn\u2019t happen to a better poster child for partisan politics than Florida\u2019s Alan Grayson.\u00a0 Byron York provides a nice summary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[217,164,356,1923],"class_list":["post-7316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alan-grayson","tag-barney-frank","tag-dick-cheney","tag-john-dingell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}