Do you remember the scene in Jaws where Chief Brody tells Quint that he's gonna need a biggger boat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkl3eXAHTRM



The Chief played by Roy Scheider is shoveling chum into the water when the shark makes its first appearance - shocked by its size, Brody stumbles into the wheel house to tell Quint that "you're gonna need a bigger boat".

This is one of the greatest scenes ever filmed in the movies.

Last year candidate Alan Grayson filmed a TV ad of his own:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61dD4X8Doa0

In it the camera zooms in on him carrying a briefcase which he opens up on a table inside an aircraft hangar. He tells the viewers that it contains over one million dollars - more money than most of us see in a life time. He then goes on to say that over eight billion dollars has gone missing in Iraq - enough to fill this entire hangar - and that he's been fighting corruption and winning back millions of the taxpayers' money for us.

Now he's Congressman Grayson and he's after the crooks on Wall Street who made off not with millions or even mere billions but tens and hundreds of billions and he's just relentless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF83wwij828 - Regulation or Chaos not Regulation or Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYq6kdseV8 - Grayson questions AIG CEO about credit default swaps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-DOwLnQ4nk - Send them all to jail which is where I would be if I robbed a financial institution, heads you win tails I lose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvVJ7U-TekE - No more bailouts

Imagine if he had to remake his aircraft hangar campaign ad today to describe what has happened on Wall Street - Congressman Grayson, you're gonna need a bigger aircraft hangar!

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

I first saw them when I was living in Toronto and got the local TV stations from Buffalo. In Colorado, the Democrats can't say that outright. Despite the massive takeover we've mounted over the past four years, I think a lot of the people who voted for our candidates don't want to admit to themselves that they just voted for a Dem. So to some extent, we still operate on the down-low. I mean, there was no way Mark Udall was going to lose his Senate race, but no way in hell would he ever appear on television and say "I'm Mark Udall and I'm a Democrat".

with the chum is the perfect metaphor for the Wall Street bailout - the shark is huge and it's gonna eat our boat if we don't kill it first.

Yeah we need 20 more guys like Alan who aren't afraid to go after these guys - it would be a real game changer. Florida isn't exactly Massachutsetts so I don't think Alan has it particularly easy, he's just showing a lot of backbone that most of our Congressmen won't do.

Colorado is BY FAR the most reactionary place I've lived.

TN is very bible-thumpy...AZ is hard core gun totin' conservative reactionary.

Doug D.

CO is more reactionary. You can see the toothless Tennessee rednecks coming a mile away.

I lived in AZ (during summers) to play baseball while I was in college. They're pretty reactionary too.

I've lived a lot around the Deep South but TN and AZ have been the worst.