Some Country for Old Men

Ugh. Just when we thought there was a Democrat with balls, Alan Grayson does what Dems always do: Give up. About a month after calling a lobbyist a “K Street whore” (accurate), the story somehow made national news, and CNN’s Political Ticker, along with everyone else, ran with it.

Remember that Grayson is the freshman Democrat congressman who said on the House floor that the Republican health care plan is, “Don’t get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.” So why would a guy like that apologize for calling a lobbyist a whore? On Tuesday a spokesman for him defended Grayson, saying:

She actually questioned his understanding of the difference between fiscal and monetary policy,” Grayson spokesman Todd Jurowski said in the earlier statement. “She had the audacity to attack a congressman who used to be an economist. She’s a career lobbyist who used to work for Enron and advocates for whatever she gets paid to promote.”

Shocker, Grayson backtracked because apparently people out there get angry when you call a whore a whore. His apology reads:

I offer my sincere apology,” Grayson said in the statement, “I did not intend to use a term that is often, and correctly, seen as disrespectful of women.

“This characterization of Ms. Robertson, made during a radio interview last month in the context of the debate over whether the Federal Reserve should be independently audited, was inappropriate, and I apologize.”

Wimpy? Sure. Smart? Maybe. After all, this guy won a congressional seat as a Democrat in a Republican section of Florida, probably because of anti-Bush and anti-Republican sentiments at the time of the election. If he wants to hang onto the seat, he’s going to have to not alienate voters who don’t understand what lobbyists do for a living. Or what this particular lobbyist does.

To sum up: Democrats, wimps. Grayson: Ball-less. Welcome to the new Democratic Party!