outburst is not an outburst. it s a re-election flection of l think about this. if you were going to be real about these issues you would be asking what can we do to beef up the security. something gop members have already cut, you know, and they have decisions to cut it now in these days as we re speaking. it s rank hypocrisy. i think it s a fresh breath of air that people i agree with you about the hypocrisy because i remember 9/11 very clearly and i remember how this country rallied around a president who had limited ability but we all rallied around him. the first reaction was he says we re going to get the people who knocked down this building and everybody cheered him. they weren t saying how did you screw it up buddy. it was about unit. the left and center are much better at national unity than the right. the right sees a national tragedy like this far off in bengha benghazi, not in new york city, at a very exposed position which could have happened no matter
under his leadership the state has been accused of warehousing disabled children in nursing homes in order to save money on the costs of in-home care. headlines from the miami herald reads a florida mom s fight for her disabled son. another reads a child s sad death in a florida nursing home. these tragic stories stem from rank hypocrisy. back in 2011 just hours after scott participated at a special olympics event, the governor ordered cuts of up to 40% in programs for the disabled. joining us now is democratic congressman allan grayson of florida. welcome. and congratulations on your re-election. thank you. congressman, governor scott has repeatedly turned down the offer of federal funds that would allow parents to care for their children at home. in the interest of transparency,
thing and are defending herman cain over this same sort of thing. well, i agree completely. i think fundamentally that s what the story s about. i think millions of americans will see it that way. it s a story of rank hypocrisy. you know, and the fact of the matter is, what herman cain ought to do is ought to stand up, he ought to answer every question until the reporters are done asking questions. he ought to demand that the national restaurant association release the study, release the report, redact the women s names from it. he should demand the national restaurant association release all the information they have on this matter to see if his assertions are credible or not. certainly on the one hand, i think you want to be very careful when accusations are made that there s a rush to judgment, that there is, you know, a rush to proclaim him guilty, where, you know, we live
thing and are defending herman cain over this same sort of thing. well, i agree completely. i think fundamentally that s what the story s about. i think millions of americans will see it that way. it s a story of rank hypocrisy. you know, and the fact of the matter is, what herman cain ought to do is ought to stand up, he ought to answer every question until the reporters are done asking questions. he ought to demand that the national restaurant association release the study, release the report, redact the women s names from it. he should demand the national restaurant association release all the information they have on this matter to see if his assertions are credible or not. certainly on the one hand, i think you want to be very careful when accusations are made that there s a rush to judgment, that there is, you know, a rush to proclaim him guilty, where, you know, we live in a highly politically charged time.
but this is hypocrisy. rank hypocrisy as simple as that. congressman grayson when you take a look at what was said, the sound bite we played twice, if those words had come out of george w. bush where would the republican party be? what kind of sell job would we be getting right now? well, you know, they pretend to be patriots but in fact they complain about things as lindsey graham pointed out they only complain about when a democrat is charge. we spent the total amount in libya in the last ten days the same amount as roughly we spend in afghanistan and iraq every single day. for eight years in iraq and ten years in afghanistan. lindsey graham got it right. where were all of these accountants during the war in iraq? where were they asking the mission when the mission was to find weapons of mass destruction that weren t there? where are they now? there s only two people who showed any honor among the republicans concerning the war