represents a Republican-leaning district around Orlando and was already among the GOP’s top targets for the 2010 elections.

Ken Spain, spokesman for the House Republican campaign arm, said Democrats should be "lining up to call on him to apologize."

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now has an opportunity to condemn the very behavior and tone of this health care debate that she claims will ‘incite violence,’" he said, referring to Democratic concerns that the bitter tone of the health care debate could lead to attacks.

But you see it is the Republicans who are ‘demagoging the issue.’

It is Republicans who are ‘using scare tactics.’

By the way, note how in typical fashion the Associated Press uses this outrage to bring up Mr. Wilson’s spontaneous outcry " as if there is a moral equivalency.

Republicans are likening Grayson’s remark to South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson’s widely criticized shout of "You lie!" during President Barack Obama’s address

. . . to Congress earlier this month. They say Democrats should insist that Grayson apologize just as they insisted Wilson should.


Of course to the AP, Mr. Wilson’s was the far greater crime.

After all, he told the truth.

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(Thanks to NickB for the heads up.)