My Letter To Congressman Alan Grayson: MAN UP!! {{-_-}}

Dear Congressman Alan Grayson,

My name is {{-_-}}. I'm 22, I live in sunny Southern California, and I currently attend college in the OTHER Orange County - the one with the OTHER Disney theme park. I'm also uninsured. Anthem/Blue Cross will not cover me because I am not enrolled in 12 semester units. The reason I couldn't get 12 units is because my state is going through a chain reaction caused by the recession, which has affected the education budget and caused many overcrowded schools like mine to cut hundreds of classes. Right now, I am one of many who could use the competition of a public health insurance option more than ever. That is why I've been paying attention to you in the media for the past month. I would like to take a moment to thank you for standing up to the Party of No and calling them out for their filibuster of the public option. We need universal health care as soon as possible, and we are most definitely behind you all the way. The late Senator Ted Kennedy shall not have died in vain thanks to people like you.

But all that aside for a moment, I came to speak to you about an issue that may possibly hinder our cause. I was watching Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC today when it was reported that you were forced to apologize to Federal Reserve aide, lobbyist, and former Enron employee Linda Robertson for calling her a "K Street whore" over the radio a month ago. I think that was a mistake. You should never have apologized. That completely goes against the reputation that you've built up thus far. While you've been standing up to the Republican bully, you just backed down from another bully.

First and foremost, treating women as if they're delicate flowers is disguised sexism. It shows that we think lowly of them. You respect women, right? I respect women enough to tell them the honest truth, no matter how much it hurts their feelings. That's the only way they'll get better. If they do wrong then they should be called out for it on the spot, same as a man should. Treating any gender as helpless infants who are so fragile that they shouldn't even be called a nasty name (when people like Glenn Beck try so hard to make our President synonymous to evil dictators) is harmful and destructive to BOTH genders because it encourages negative habits. The fact that Linda Robertson is a woman does not excuse her from owning up to responsibility for being a greedy corporate lobbyist and contributing to the poor state of our country with her opportunistic ways. I only wish we could call all lobbyists whores. In my opinion, the Federal Reserve happens to be the largest brothel this world has ever seen in its collective lifetime.

Linda Robertson knows exactly what she is and you told the honest truth, as you've been known for doing lately. If Ms. Robertson doesn't want to be called a whore then she shouldn't act like one - it's that simple. And if she chooses to continue in her profession then it's only right that she learns how to take being called a name; it comes with the territory.

What you said may not have been the most tactful, but it was most definitely what needed to be said and for that I applaud you. It might not have had anything to do with health care reform, but it definitely gets the ball rolling on a much GREATER topic and for that I also applaud you. Needless to say, you're on a definite roll. But I just can't believe you would go back on your words like that after you acquired all of our faith in you to keep it real. I don't live in Florida but the cause that you've taken up can also benefit people like me and my family on the other side of the country. Besides, I'm sure there are people in your constituency that are also depending on you to keep on being that stand-up guy. You exposed the Republicans and the Blue-Dog Democratic traitors as the whores they are, so why shouldn't you be able to expose the rest of the whores who are in those high positions of power pimping the rest of us?

The fact of the matter is that we've only just begun our mission. There are many more snakes in the grass still yet to be brought to the light. And you can bet that they're not going out without a fight. We haven't lost faith in you, Congressman Grayson. All we ask is that you don't lose faith in yourself.

Thank you.

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