In other news, just to keep Kossacks up to date on the great work Congressman Grayson is doing:

Anticipating a Supreme Court decision that could free corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) introduced five bills on Wednesday to choke off the expected flood of corporate cash. "We are facing a potential threat to our democracy," Grayson said in an interview with HuffPost. "Unlimited corporate spending on campaigns means the government is up for sale and that the law itself will be bought and sold. It would be political bribery on the largest scale imaginable." Grayson introduced a handful of bills on Wednesday -- the Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act, the Corporate Propaganda Sunshine Act, the End Political Kickbacks Act, and two other measures. The Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act would impose a 500 percent excise tax on corporate contributions to political committees and on corporate expenditures on political advocacy campaigns. The Corporate Propaganda Sunshine Act would require public companies to report what they spend to influence public opinion on any matter other than the promotion of their goods and services. The End Political Kickbacks Act would restrict political contributions by government contractors.

The other measures would apply antitrust regulations to political committees and bar corporations from securities exchanges unless the corporation is certified in compliance with election law. "This case is basically about an effort to get around that. Citizens United took corporate money and tried to influence an election," said Lisa Gilbert of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "These are all pieces of good policy. I hope they draw attention to the potential frightening implications of Citizens United."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

BTW: One of my 'insane right wing crazy associates' that I work with sent me the below video in an email. Talk about re-writing history, this is the most horrifying thing I have ever seen. Has anyone else been sent this video? Does anyone know who sponsored it? I think we should find our pretty damn quick who the heck is putting this shit out there...

Just wanted to let you know that there is some crazy shifting of the entire mess that Bush left us right onto our own party, and this rewriting of history seems like this is the way the Republicans are going to 'write many of their upcoming political ads'....if you get my drift.

Thanks...its getting scary out there. Thank god Congressman Grayson has our back and stands up and reminds America every chance he gets, on the bullshit that the Republicans try to pull over on people. The Karl Rove rule of thumb: Just keep repeating lies over and over again, and then the 'lies' somehow 'morph' into the 'new truth' is alive and well in the Republican party, and the new 'meme'....that our nation got where it is today because of President Obama and the Democratic party, seems to be the way the Republicans are going to try to take back 'our country'. We have to figure out a way to fight this message, and I hope someone in President Obama's public relations office is working out a significant strategy to stop this insane blame game before it catches up with us. I think that this may come down to President Obama turning the tables on Wall Street BIG-TIME and conducting a very strong campaign against the same 'shadow elite' that are now willing to cross over to candidates like Scott Brown. Wall Street holds no loyalty to any political party, and the last thing Wall Street cares about are the American people. I hope that President Obama sees the light because I believe that is where the next few election cycles will take us: It's either Wall Street or the American people.....it really is that simple.

Don't cha just love Grayson?

UPDATE: Thanks for your comments....two things: first of all I know a lot of us are giving to both Haiti and working our butts off in the Coakley camp, but just wanted to remind everyone of the Act Blue for Grayson..

http://www.actblue.com/...

Second,the Utube video that is so scary at the end of this diary is posted because I wanted to make certain everyone on our side of the isle (Democrats) understood what we are up against right now, and I personally would like to find out what organization is responsible for producing this video. It is absolutely horrifying.

Thanks.