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U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the anti-war Democrat from Orlando, is helping lead a bipartisan coalition to block President Obama's Administration from bombing Syria, and he's using what looks like a novel approach in Congressional hearings: Asking real and pointed questions.

While others make speeches that masquerade as campaign speeches, Grayson used today's Foreign Affairs hearing to rattle off a series of questions designed to raise doubts about the rush to bomb Syria and the consequences for doing so.

At the same time, Grayson is quietly trying to persuade fellow Democrats and some Republicans to vote no. So far, coupled with organic Republican opposition to Obama, the effort appears to be working in the GOP House, where even Democratic support is relatively tepid, which also reflects a war-weary public and polls showing the lack of popularity of bombing Syria.

That could change in the coming days if the United Nations, on the ground in Syria, determines chemical weapons were used and if the administration does a better job making the case for attacking Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Grayson's position isn't just consistent policy for the Congressman, who was opposed to the Iraq war, it's good politics.

"Alan Grayson: A Congressman with Guts," says his new campaign website, "Tell Congress: Don't Attack Syria."

It has gathered 36,000 signatures, his campaign says. The site also gives people the chance to donate.

Grayson has parlayed his role of anti-war agitator in chief into multiple appearances in the news media, which can't resist intramural squabbles because they ring more true than red-on-blue or blue-on-red back-and-forths. The Atlantic has a fascinating must-read on Grayson and his criticisms on CNN of the administration's case for war was razor sharp.

Grayson continued in that vein today during his five minutes of questions for Secretary of State John Kerry, Gen. Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel:

Grayson: "Do Syria and Hezbollah have the means to launch a counterattack against U.S. vessels in the Mediterranean, the U.S. embassy in Beirut and Israel?"

Dempsey: Yes, but not much