congressman alan grayson showed everyone what this greedy crowd is ball and how they want to use theirh. it's another grayson classic. >> here's one possibility. they can buy an $83,000 mercedes-benz e-class car. not just once, but every single year for the next decade. they can buy this gorgeous hermes bag, a birkin for $64,800. they can buy a bottle of wine from 1787 every year for the next decade. thank you, republican party. they can buy 20,000 jars of their favorite mustard, grey poupon. here's an idea let's take that $100 billion and give 3 million americans a job. >> joining us now is the congressman from florida, alan grayson. congressman, well done. >> thank you. >> what gave you the idea do this? and sometimes we don't see the forest because of the trees. that was my response when i saw that. >> i think it's a modest proposal. president roosevelt created 4 million new jobs in two months when the country needed it. why can't we do the same thing? are we so bent on giving the rich more money that we're blind to the needs of everyone else? >> a significant number of members in c

alan grayson did, carol shay porter in new hampshire, jerry mcanerny in california.hese were solid progressives who ran as unapologetic progressives who won and removed republican incumbents. the problem was the dccc wanted to follow this advise that the country hates liberalism, democrats must move to the right. and they forced a bunch of former republican broo dogs into those seats when they could have had progressives in there and they built in huge majority with people that don't share the democratic views when it would have been better to have a cohesive majority that could have gotten more done for the american people. >> knowing the congressional district map as you do in the 50 united states you believe that there are 220 districts in the united states, let's say, let's just give nancy pelosi a majority of six. okay? and there's 220 seats in this country that you can win with liberal candidates. >> well, you mean, with liberal candidates or something short of blue dogs. i wouldn't recommend candidates running around the deep south or the west saying, hi, i'm

and the examples that are culled, alan grayson or it's code pink interrupting a rally are not equivalentying if conservatives don't get what they want, they're going to use guns to get what they want and she's a senate candidate. >> and we've said those are equal? >> i think you've done some of that. i don't think it's the main thing you do when you talk about the media. you don't accept that we're in the same point but i think we are. i remember right after the 2011 election -- and i won't keep you here forever -- after the election, it was something about george bush and dick cheney and you said something to the effect that bush said can we have the recession outside today because the weather is so nice, with the idea being that george bush is an idiot. he's an infin tile that thinks recess and recession are the same thing. and after the tea bag the white house before they tea bag you goes on fox news, we talk about what the whole idea is about tea bagging and how funny they don't get what that word choice means. i sort of feel like we're doing the same thing. that you make -- essentia

russ feingold lost, alan grayson lost, so doesn't that show you that being on the left doesn't work either at least? >> well, here's the funny thing, the blue dogs were massacred. they were absolutely wiped out, and there are demographic reasons for that, so some of us whoic that my position, being fair minded say, hey, look at the demographics. a lot of the blue dogs were going to have a tough race either way. but bhefr it comes to russ feingold where millions of dollars were flooded into the state from outside, then all the sudden it's no, no, don't talk about the specifics of russ feingold. we're going to use russ feingold as prove the progressive pitch doesn't work. the reason they went down is voters looked at what their party did. the party hasn't been tough about protecting social security. the party hasn't dun enough to nail down the abuses of the big banks. as long as that continues the voters will punish the party. so rewarding the people who made sure the party didn't do more to me is insanity. >> richard, is the whole problem the world centrist? are they really in the center of

you can say almost anything in a campaign ad, but they did not like alan grayson calling his opponent taliban dan. they didn't like the aqua buddha of rand paul's opponent. but yeah, i thought -- you mentioned sharron angle. i thought that was a good race to be the epitome for what was going on in america. here you had harry reid who, of course, we all know is very uninspiring, dusty, old harry reid. he looks like the druggist in a frank capper movie. you know what, he was a guy who got a lot done in the senate, as opposed to the crazy lady with 20 dead cats in the basement. that was the choice and it was that close? so yeah, i take some comfort, but not a lot. >> how, bill, how are republicans getting away with spinning november 2nd as a landslide? they've done a wonderful job of convincing their own people they swept the democrats out. they didn't take the senate under what were probably the most adverse circumstances democrats could have created for themselves. >> yes, but they didn't take the senate because they had people like christine o'donnell, as you well know, and have point

. >> not have a and that the examples that are called whether it's alan grayson yelloth floor of thevalent to sharron angle saying if conservatives don't get what they want they're going to use guns for what they want. and she's a u.s. senate candidate. we said that those are equal? >> i think that you've done some of that. i don't think that it's main thing that you do when you talk about the media but the thing where i feel like we're in the same boat and you don't accept that we're in the same boat but i think we are. i remember right after the 2000 election and i won't keep you here forever, right after the 2000 election, you said, something that -- something -- i remember -- i remember it was about george bush and dick cheney, it was right after bush v. gore, something bush said, can we have the recession outside today because the weather's so nice. >> right right. >> the idea being that george bush is an idiot. he's an infinile person. recession and such. >> i think right, right. >> and after the tea bag the white house before they tea bagged you sign goes on fox news, we talk

we have heard it all, until congressman alan grayson took to the house floor to contemplate what topof their favorite mustard, grey poup poupon. >> libzine liberals, soccer moms, and now grey poupon conservatives. the prestigious urban dictionary describe s grey poupon as a special type of mustard known for the preferred choice of the wealthy. old people use it, so do rich people. so do presidents. >> a spicy mustard, like dijon? >> some of his critics accuse the president of being an elitist for with wanting dijon, but grey poupon wrote him a letter. for the record, grey poupon retails for a little over three bucks, about the same as its competitor, helmand's dijonaise, but still grey poupon conservatives has a sound bites to it, or maybe this. >> they can bhi

alan grayson of florida, tom perriello, virginia, with a voucher, a democrat, virginia, carol porter, a democrat, in new hampshire, chet edwards, democrat of texas and his demise has been predicted for the last 17 elections. glenn nye, democrat of virginia, alan boyd, florida, kathy doll kemper, democrat of pennsylvania, frank kratovil, democrat of maryland. joseph fit cao, one of the few republicans who lost his seat, a democrat from illinois and attend the district. those are some of the incumbents who lost their seats. delay. melanie on the republican minority caller: good morning to you both. first of all, thank you to c- span for having, i guess, the most non-partisan reporting out there. i always turn to you guys when i want to actually hear i guess some truth. but what i wanted to say, i just kind of wanted to backtrackms. brown was talking about the letter pelosi said and i think it is appalling that she is not seeing what their policies have done for this country -- to this country. i think they need to take some responsibility and stop blaming the bush administration for wha

one in particular, alan grayson, spoke about how proud he was of the accomplishments of the current congress. another one of ohio saying he was proud to vote for the healthcare bill, the proudest moment of his life. his mother had been sick when he was very young. he had a personal stake in that. on the other side, there were losers who said it was a really bad idea basically for democrats to put nancy pelosi back. a representative from florida said nancy pelosi was the face of the democratic defeat, meaning she had been the focus of advertisements across the country. one report is that $65 million were spent on ads district by district tying members of congress to nancy pelosi. alan boyd said that. there were some people who agreed in that sentiment. certainly it was a contentious and long caucus meeting -- meeting that went on for hours. it broke up at one point and then reconvened. there was a lot of consternation among the smaller, moderate group of democrats who saw a lot of their friends lose on election day and hope they did not be all the same fate two years from now. host: let us tu

alan grayson i'm sure some viewers will remember, he was the most rhetorically aggressive member of the house democratic freshmen class of 2008. he was the -- he made no bones about his liberalism, even though he was in a swing district. he liked to talk -- refer to his opponent whose name was daniel webster, doesn't get better than that if you're a candidate, as taliban dafpblet he went on the house floor and said the republican prescription for health care reform is die quickly. reporters loved him and he loved himself in his own method of brash rhetoric. i would say this one is not -- it is sort of a referendum on the limits of aggressive rhetoric rather than on the partisan divide in this country. >> another race in florida, congressman ron: klein and also -- ron klein, let's look at the numbers. congressman klein at 45%. he was challenged by allen whoast has 55% of the vote in that south florida district. >> you're right. klein is one of the most formidable fundraisers among the house democrats. it's how he got to congress four years ago by just raising an enormous amount of money.