Griffith: 'The Far Left Tilt Of The Democratic Party No Longer Welcomed Me Or My Ideas'

[bigollameo]

The far left? Is he talking about the wild socialist commies pushing for environmental and health care regulatory insanity, not far behind which comes the rise of the totalitarian state?!?!?!

It doesn't make sense here in terms of health care, because the current Obama health care initiative is just a zombie of Bob Dole's plan in 1994. Hell, Cap and Trade isn't really all that different than what George H. W. Bush proposed in 1990.

What a dumbass!!!!

[hugBitCH]

Good for him!

[bleunt]

He's pro life, except when he wants meat or someone executed.

[SabuPtolemy]

WTF was this GOPher dumbass doing in the Democratic Party to begin with?!

[TheConcernedPatriot]

"the far left tilt of the Democratic Party"

you've got to be kidding me...

[zidmt]

Bye bye dolt, once again the idiots from the south show their idiotic way of thinking. Stick to watching th Faux news Channel and repeating what your teachers tell you to hate.

[mintvagoo]

This clip could have been 31 seconds shorter- had he just said he was anti-woman.

[jimbojim68]

Or if he left out all the "uuhhs." Is he from Alabamuuuhh?

[fishhead06]

"Reducing debt and the size of government"? I though the GOP was the party of big debt and big government!

[IcyKitty]

Let the door hit ya where your lord split ya. B-bye

[p00lman]

Being pro-life isn't having an idea, it's being a bible-thumping drone.

[wayne388]

Mark my words, this man had no ideas.

[voyeurdug]

Phfui-patooey. "Far left tilt" in the Democratic party is the faintest leftward drift from dead center.

[MrFolds24]

He is just slowly drowning himself for his own political suicide. His own district barely elected him in the last election, but he was the Democratic candidate and considered the lesser of two evils in the election. If he runs as a Republican in this next election, I bet he won't even win the primary.

[IAMtheNewWorldOrder]

lol your district is more concerned with reducing the diversity in their own fuckin gene pool.

[junkforkaryn]

i suppose he thinks his district is more comfortable remaining in the gutter.

[MISSBEBEBLUE]

Another pathetic politician.

[hajqbvii]

I'm sure glad I never had a Doctor like him....Griffith, you won't be re-elected, even as a Republican. All the Dems have to do is run those GOP ads of his bad reputation as a doctor.

[synapsecracklepop]

what a load of crap

[doink1422]

first off he was an independent and was never a democrat 2nd he is from Alabama where god and the republican party rule

[Hesperell]

God rules everything and everywhere, my friend.

[doink1422]

it just a saying down south. take it easy. your not from the south so you don't get it.

[p00lman]

Except for reality.

[RobertSeattle]

Blah blah blah. Small Government, anti-abortion, etc are things Republicans say to get elected but never actually do anything about. Yet the Wingnuts fall for it ever time.

[motorolarules]

It don't matter what side these morons claim to represent. There job is to represent the money and power at the EXPENSE of the "tax payer" or "consumer" or "great unwashed" or "ignorant puplic" or "american people" or whatever term they use to describe a human being.

[callouschristian]

with that faux southern accent he was never a democrat anyway

[KataVideo]

your ah-deas? conservatards don't have ideas.

[joshatkins94]

'far left' that's communism, you nut.

[motorolarules]

Now that funny! And true

[joshatkins94]

exactly...my point was democrats are hardly center-left, it's comical to hear this communist/socialist nonsense.

[sjcpal]

This guy Griffith ...He's history , how dumb can he be , He's joining the Republicans as a moderate when they are in bead with the Tea-baggers and have a purity test for Republicans..Ha Ha Ha ...Hope he has his old job still

[callouschristian]

Next thing we know he'll say he was for "neither party" but was "really" a ron paul conservative the whole time, which he'll no doubt top off by explaining the whole story an Arizona golf course interview on "lifestyles of the shrewd yet mindless".

[bigredjeff007420]

the dems are so fucking weak. now look at all the hangers on jump ship, for their weakness is on display.

[kaysandesses]

jeffie, this clown is the only one to "jump ship" and it's no great loss, considering he nearly always votes with the Repugnicans. He likely only ran on the Dem. ticket because he couldn't win the Repugnican primary.

Hope he enjoys his remaining year in the House.

[oliverleehornbake]

Just wait. The REPUBLICANS will take back the senate, and maybe even the house in 2010. The dems haven't been voting with their constituents, which is one great way to get kicked out of office.

[integral]

Not a chance.

With the unsavory teabaggers around and the GOP's need to appease them and distance itself from them at the same time the Dems will hang onto the majority but not a super majority (for all the good that's done them).

[kaysandesses]

"The dems haven't been voting with their constituents,... "

Bosh. Let's see what platforms the Dem's ran on last election:

fix the economy: underway, we've already seen gains

fix the wars: underway

health care reform, also underway

environmental issues: underway albeit slowly due to taking a backseat to the economy and health care reform

improved internation relations: underway with already dramatic results

closing gitmo: underway

[oliverleehornbake]

Improve international relations: Is that why at the enviornmental summit, Obama was almost totally forgot about by other world leaders? The only reason other countries like Obama is because he is not Bush. Hell, that's also why Obama won the Peace Prize, for not being Obama.

With Gitmo, those towel heads will get off on any charges because they were tortured. All American laws will apply to them. So the fact they were tortured, any info the gov't got was when they were under duress.

[bigredjeff007420]

you do not deny there weakness. what about Joe L. is he working with the dems? what a bunch of pussys. its a mother-fuck crying shame all we Americans gt to choose from is stupid crazy and pussy flipflop. my country is out of its mind. this will not end well.

[kaysandesses]

Newsflash jeffie: LIEberman hasn't been a Dem in name or behavior for years. Anyone with even the most elementary observation skills can see that.

You lose, thank you for playing though. You can pickup your toaster on the way out.

Why do you think the country is out of its mind? Because the Repugnicans got their asses handed to them in spades?

[bigredjeff007420]

my point exactly. we go through all the effort of working so hard to get these ppl into office to fix some of the injustices in this nation and they just give us lip service. fuck u fuck ur party fuck ur politics fuck this system.

[xTheOxx]

When was he ever welcome in the Democratic Party in the first place?

[joshatkins94]

when he wanted $2000 from Rahm.

"White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in January contributed $2,000 from his House PAC account to Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.), who is leaving the Democratic Party to become a Republican...A White House aide said it is unclear at this point if Emanuel will ask Griffith to return the money." - The Hill bit . ly / 5TH5kF

[shoogie06]

What far left tilt?

[joshatkins94]

@shoogie06 he meant to say somewhat center-right / corporatist tilt, it just came out wrong.

[Ed76638]

Who is he fooling? This fucker just want to ride the Barack Obama wave into power.

[anonymolol]

dont let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

@anonymolol

one less democrat.

[anonymolol]

in the house? meh, who cares. did he ever vote with the democrats for anything worth a damn?

[joshatkins94]

@anonymolol enough to annoy the club for growth, which is nice to know.

"Griffith's voting record is far from conservative, too. Granted, he voted against the Big 4 - Obama's first budget, the Stimulus, Cap and Trade, and ObamaCare. However, his vote on the budget is slightly deceptive since he originally voted for 9 of the 12 spending bills that make up the budget. And he voted against all the Stimulus amendments that would reduce its size." - bit . ly / 4W8hNp

[LeGioNoFZioN]

I meant that as in one less democrat, one less problem. the smaller the part shrinks, the more my mind is at ease.