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Grayson: Republicans are ‘Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals’

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) called Republicans “foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals— on CNN’s “The Situation Room— on Wednesday night, a day after saying on the House floor that their plan for sick people is to “die quickly.—Grayson reiterated earlier comments that no Democratic leaders have asked him to apologize for his “die quickly— attack. “And you know why they haven’t asked me? Because I’m saying what everyone else has been thinking.—Grayson said that Republicans should “apologize to America— and that they don’t have a health care plan, and later ripped into them again.“These are foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who think they can dictate to America by being stubborn,— Grayson said. “We had an election and that’s it, and now we have to move ahead in just the way the president wants to.—

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