Alan Grayson

As you may have read, Blue America extended the Alan Grayson/Jimi Hendrix fundraiser because of the Memorial Day weekend. We'll randomly pick a winner at 3pm (ET)/noon (PT). So you still have a chance to win the very rare and vert collectible Jimi Hendrix platinum album for his first release, Are You Experienced? But even if you're not a Hendrix fan-- even if you're a country music fan or a show tunes fan or an opera fan who never heard a single Hendrix lick-- please consider helping Grayson win his reelection bid.

You're probably aware that we're getting into the final stretch of our Alan Grayson Jimi Hendrix fundraiser. Because of the Memorial Day holiday, we've extended it until Tuesday-- one extra day.

All the Blue America bloggers have been agitating for Pelosi to refuse to legitimize the Benghazi clown show and to instead appoint just one Democrat-- Alan Grayson, who is bound to make the Republicans wish they were not the party of sedition and obstruction. Yesterday, Grayson told Brett Logiurato at Business Insider that the Republicans are "scandalmongers without a scandal.

This morning when I woke up the top story on Salon was Digby's Put Alan Grayson On Benghazi Panel! Why He's Dems' Best Option To Expose This Clown Show. "With the latest Benghazi! ™ extravaganza about to begin," she wrote, "the Democrats are faced with a dilemma.

We never asked Alan Grayson how he feels about a Hillary Clinton presidency-- although he's getting a lot of pressure to run in the primary against her. But we do know how the Republican Party feels about her perspective run: they are terrified. They know she can beat any of their horribly flawed candidates-- think Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee-- in a landslide the scope of which is likely to jeopardize the political careers of dozens of senators, congressmembers and local Republican officials.

Since 1990, the Insurance Industry has contributed $306,387,653 in congressional races, almost two-thirds of it to Republicans. So far this year, they've doled out $17,600,207, again, most of it to Republicans. So far in the cycle they have carefully selected the incumbents who have been most willing-- in each house-- to put the special interests of the insurance industry ahead the interests of their own constituents and of the American people.

When a tiny handful of slime ball conservaDems like Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Patrick Murphy (FL) and John Barrow (GA) conspired with the House Republicans to ramp up the politically and financially-motivated Benghazi witch hunt last week, I floated the idea of Pelosi doing the one thing better than boycotting it: just appointing a single Democrat to call out the GOP on their ugly partisan attacks. And who better than Oralndo truth teller Alan Grayson? Answer: no one.

One of the key line-in-the-sand differences between Republicans and Democrats is how the two parties spend tax dollars and from who they collect tax dollars. That line has been blurring, first under Clinton and now under Obama. Republicans conveniently want to lessen the tax burden on their wealthy campaign contributors at the expense of the middle class.

If the Democrats were to win back the House in November-- and a herd of golden unicorns parading down Pennsylvania Avenue in honor of Earth Day tomorrow is more likely-- Steve Israel would be a hero and be asked to remain on as chairman for another cycle. There's no chance, not even a small one, that that will happen. Israel is the least competent DCCC chairman in history and Pelosi's unwillingness to fire him after his catastrophic performance in the 2012 cycle, is dooming America to another two years of a dysfunctional GOP-led House.

A little over a week ago we introduced South Carolina congressional candidate Gloria Bromell Tinubu. We didn't really get into her fascinating biography just some political background. Below is a guest post she did for us based on some of the unique planks in her campaign platform.