it's an average Tuesday.

And that is a sad commentary on our elected leaders from both parties, although justified.

That is a very interesting comment. Really. It's one of those observations that makes you think, and the more you think, the more layers you find.

You can take those two sentences on a more or less literal level (which may or not be the way you meant them to be taken), to mean that there is no word with the meaning of “holocaust” that isn't that word, because that word is associated with the Holocaust, capital H.

A slightly different way of thinking about it is that there is, objectively, the world “holocaust,” lower case h, that means “overwhelmingly catastrophic event” or words to that effect. That word still exists. But that word can no longer be used to convey the generic, generalized meaning it once had. Because when we use that word now — even if we don't intend it to refer to the organized murder of six million Jews; even if we are trying to use it in a larger sense — we can't. Because people don't process that word the same way post-World War II. When you say “holocaust” it means “Holocaust” because that's the way most people understand that word, whether the first letter is capped or not. It's like the murder of six million Jews, as a discrete historical event, has been stamped into the word, leaving an indelible impression.

I can't think of another word like that, for which the very meaning has altered because of one historic event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfwza0jo1yw&feat…

I'm not saying this kind of rhetoric is appropriate, as Rachel Maddow says, what Grayson said is “a hyperbolic, over the top charge.” But “to make an inflammatory floor speech… is not a breach of decorum in today's House of Representatives.. it's an average Tuesday.” Watch the clip.

As for the “holocaust” comment, I guess we can no longer use the usual English language meaning of that word any more? There is no such English word as “holocaust” outside the one genocidal Nazi “Holocaust”? Grayson has admitted it “may not have been the best choice of words”.

Yes ma'am, this is it, precisely.

Congressman Grayson’s debating points are extremely accurate backed by sources of the highest credibility. Though they at first sight seem bombastic, his points are factual. Wilson don’t even have a point to make beyond screaming hate rhetoric common within his party. Where is Wilson’s presentation on the issue?

he called Republicans “Knuckle Dragging Neanderthals”

Really, was it really necessary to insult poor defenseless Neanderthals…

It’s like Paul Revere using the F-bomb when he cries out “the British are Coming!” and we focus on the F-bomb and completely ignore the British.

Congressman Grayson is a Hero, not a distraction.