Left Wing Firebrand has Feet of Clay

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, Democrat from Florida, received recent fame thanks to his stinging (and some would say crude) criticisms of Republicans.  Progressives like his "guts".

While Grayson can dish it out, telling former V.P. Dick Cheney to"STFU", he can't take it.  As one might expect, his opponents have opened their own camel-cased web site, MyCongressmanIsNuts.  In a move out of the Chinese Communist playbook, Grayson has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute and imprison the critic, based on the technicality that the owner of the website isn't one of his constituents, therefore she can't claim him as "my" congressman.  Even though, in their "About Us" page, they say only that they are from Central Florida.

Similarly, Al Franken isn't "my" Senator.  But when he runs roughshod over Senate tradition and ends up casting the critical 60th vote for Health Care Reform, he is my Senator.  (for the record, I'm not sure what I think of the health care bill, and who knows how it will end up after the House and Senate get together anyhow.)

In any case, if some dubious technicality is the basis for five years in jail, better read that Cap and Trade bill and the Health Care Bill very carefully.  Though 5 years is only half what you'd get in China for "subversion".