Democrats' Unlikely Hero: Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida.

By GottaLaff

Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash, via my pal Mark Karlin:

A Democratic who doesn't back off telling it like it is and sticking to his guns when the GOP bullies try to get him to back off?

Is it possible? [...]

Even the White House regularly backs down when confronted with the strategic, dishonest accusations of the Rethugs. [...]

That brings us to one obscure Democratic Florida Congressman, Alan Grayson who showed what progressives have long advocated; it's not the size of the dog in the fight: it's the size of the fight in the dog. [...]

We despair that too many Democratic senators (and Blue Dog House Representatives) not only don't have the courage of their convictions; they may not have any convictions other than getting campaign contributions from Big Money and Big Corporations. But Grayson stood up for the people of America over the corporations and corporate media in putting the facts, not the fictions, on the table -- and not backing down. [...]

Americans like people who fight for them, not ones who back down whenever the bully enters the school yard.

Much more here.