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• Sunday, October 4, 2009 11:16 AM

  Alan Grayson, meet Howard Dean

  The Democratic Establishment despises firebrands, whether in the ranks or the leadership.

  Seasoned observers can be certain of two things: (1.) the campaign to embarrass, discredit and unseat Grayson has already begun, and; (2.) that campaign will have numerous overt and covert participants on both sides of the aisle.

  The price of membership in the Democratic Club is an unyielding, if saccharine, reverence for Civility™ and Bipartisanship™ - the two massive, rotten fig leaves which have long made it possible for the grossly corrupt Democratic leadership to flagrantly betray - without consequence - the stated principles of the party, its voters and the nation.

  If the Democratic Leadership can't tame Rep. Alan Grayson - whose refreshingly hyperbolic style exposes the spoilers, tools and anti- health care guerillas of both parties - then, one way or another, he will be excised from the DNC.

  Democratic officials who assist their ostensible opponents in the coming Graysonectomy, whether they do so by commission or omission, will be rewarded with the full support of the DNC party apparatus. If entrenched behavioral patterns are any indication, the vast majority of rank & file Democrats declaring solidarity with Alan Grayson today are the same voters who will reward his duplicitous, conspiring adversaries with yet another hitch in elected office, where they will be free to continue their good cop, bad cop charade while working diligently on behalf of Big Business, Big Brother and Big Money.

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  This will all be just fine with Alex Koppelman, who has clearly surrendered to the delusions of grandeur so common among the perpetually shifting and gelatinous political middle. Koppelman, not unlike other career-minded equivocators in the media arena, is mindful of being taken seriously by those who might be signing his paycheck later (and who knows what that demographic might be?). He'll issue a caveat or three events unfold, a few teaspoons of empty calories and clueless indignation to begrudingly satisfy the ravenous, cranky extremists - you know, people like you - Koppelman so disdains.

  Finally, well after Alan Grayson has been rendered a fleeting footnote in the Google News Archive, Alex Koppelman will regale us with wistful tales of What Might Have Been if only the Democratic Party didn't eat its own.

  Brilliant, Alex. At this rate, you could be the next George Stephanopolis!

  —Arvin Hill Read Arvin Hill's other letters
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