Too bad about Michael Grimm

[Sbee]

he's going to go to jail and he's the asshole who threatened to break a reporter like a boy but he actually did flip on climate change.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc...-climate-change-don-jury-blog-entry-1.1769112

After speaking with Bob Inglis, it made me do some of my own research, you know, I looked at some of the stuff that he sent over, my staff looked at,? Grimm tells Hayes. ?But the mass majority of respected scientists say that it?s conclusive, the evidence is clear. So I don?t think the jury is out.?

?There?s no question that, you know, the oceans have risen, right?? Grimm says. ?And the climate change part is, is a real part of it.?

 

[Michchamp]

I was just reading an account of his interaction with Elizabeth Warren, when she was establishing the CFPB prior to becoming Sen. Warren. She reached out to him hoping that despite his politics, his background in the FBI would be helpful at reaching common ground in combating the rampant fraud that occurred (and still occurs) in the mortgage industry, esp. in the run up to the bubble.

?He told me all about himself. He?d joined the U.S. Marines when he was 19, and he had been decorated for his service in Desert Storm. He got a degree from Baruch College, a public university in New York, went to law school, and joined the FBI, where among other things, he was part of the Financial Fraud Squad. He talked in animated terms about the great work he?d done with the FBI and the terrific training he?d received. Then he launched a small business before running for office.?
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Warren?s optimism was quickly crushed. After providing Grimm with an ?enthusiastic description of what we were trying to get done at the agency, the congressman looked surprised.? With a clenched jaw, Grimm cut Warren off. He told her, ?I don?t believe in government.? Warren thought she had misunderstood him. ?What?? she replied. He repeated that he didn?t believe in government. ?I asked him about the FBI, and he amended his statement to say yes, he believed in the FBI, but not other forms of ?big government? and certainly not a consumer protection agency.?​

Typical. The guy's entire career (except for his "small business"... which was presumably the restaurant he founded which lead to the indictment against him) was enabled by and made possible BY GOVERNMENT!

as far as him flipping on climate change, sounds like he hasn't really taken any formal position in opposition to his party... and I assume it will be harder for GOP members from eastern coastal states - no matter how anti-government stupid they are - to maintain the head-in-the-sand posture on climate change going forward. It's just not going to be a tenable position to maintain when your constituents' houses are underwater from rising sea levels & "100-year" storms that occur more frequently than every hundred years. So he's still a complete jackwagon in my book.

 

[Sbee]

as far as him flipping on climate change, sounds like he hasn't really taken any formal position in opposition to his party... and I assume it will be harder for GOP members from eastern coastal states - no matter how anti-government stupid they are - to maintain the head-in-the-sand posture on climate change going forward. It's just not going to be a tenable position to maintain when your constituents' houses are underwater from rising sea levels & "100-year" storms that occur more frequently than every hundred years. So he's still a complete jackwagon in my book.

yes, he's an asshole, that was more tongue in cheek really. I saw a profile of Bob Inglis the other day, pretty interesting. he's a former republican representative who got ousted by a tea party member, he was also booed on stage for admitting to believing in climate change. a few quotes from him


But I think the other part of it is just purely political heresy, and that it became convenient to say that this is a Democrat idea, and therefore let?s reject everything that Barack Obama would say.

So this sort of populist rejectionism took hold, and so anything that looked like or sounded like it came from a Democratic kind of an address, that would be ?return to sender? on that. So I think all three of those things happened really.

Was [Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth] part of the impact of it or what?

I think so. I mean, Vice President Gore became very associated with the issue. ? It?s not like Al Gore?s running for any office these days, ? but for some reason he remains a lightning rod for many conservatives on this issue

 

[Monster]

Just more liberal media bias.

 

[turok]

Grimm won't be going to jail, if he is convicted and sentenced to do any time. Jail is for short-timers in a county lockup for a year or less. He would probably go to a temp facility (being evaluated physically and mentally by a staff physician and mental health psychologist) then after being classified & cleared he would be transported to a Club Fed prison, likely in a cell-block amongst other non-violent white-collar convicts.