Politico: Grayson Calls Health Care Crisis 'Holocaust'

As much as I respect Representative Alan Grayson (D, Florida) on his stance vis-a-vis the Federal Reserve and his tough questioning of the Fed officials in the House Financial Services Committee, this is going a bit overboard, isn't it? To raise a spectre of 'holocaust' against the opponents who include not just Congressional Republicans but a wide swathe of citizens in the U.S. as evidenced by town hall meetings across the country this summer?

Grayson calls health care crisis 'holocaust' (Ben Smith, 9/30/09 Politico)

"Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, under fire for conservatives for describing the gist of their health care plans as "die quickly," is not exactly backing down from claims he's crossed a line of civility.

"Just now on the floor, he called on members of the House to pass health care reform in the most extreme terms possible:

""I apologize to the dead and Fltheir families athat we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America," Grayson said."

Politico's page has the video of Grayson making the "die quickly" remark.

And this is the video from C-SPAN of Grayson calling the health care crisis 'holocaust':

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