Much like Joe Wilson’s apparently not so unusual outburst during a presidential address, the furor over Florida Dem Alan Grayson’s remarks about Republican’s wanting sick people to “die quickly” aren’t exactly dying quickly.

In a bit of apparently unplanned comedy on Wolf Blitzer, Republican Strategist Alex Castellanos dismissed the debate, saying “There are fringes and nutjobs on both sides…”

Blitzer interrupted, “Hold on, he’s coming in right now,” as Grayson entered the studio.

Even the not-notoriously-conservative Wonkette had some choice words for Nancy Pelosi, after the House speaker defended Grayson.

“Nancy Pelosi wakes up every day and picks something to make worse,” Wonkette wrote in her post titled Nancy Pelosi Would Like To Drag The Alan Grayson Thing Out For Another Hot Sec, If That’s Cool With You.

It’s like, why should Alan Grayson apologize when other people—SUBTEXT: Republicans!—also have things to apologize for? How is that even democracy??

“If anybody’s going apologize, everybody should apologize,” Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference. “We are holding Democrats to a higher standard than their own members.”

Oh and the Democrats want to socialize apologies now too.

Michelle Malkin had this review of Grayson’s provocations:

You remember Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida. A month ago, he was taking refuge in a union hall to shill for Obamacare in a cowardly last-minute meeting with angry constituents.

As you know, he has now traveled down Demagoguery Road and accused Republicans of wanting sick Americans to “DIE QUICKLY.”

The diarrhea of the mouth continued yesterday with Grayson trashing his political opponents as “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.”

Michelle neglects his non-apology issued Wednesday:

“I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America,” he said.

Right blogger Jules Crittenden has some fun with this obviously over the top congressman in Neanderthal Pride.

Look, I really don’t want to get into the anti-Neanderthalism, though I think it’s deplorable we can’t have a political discussion without people resorting to overt species-ist attacks.

But if being a Neanderthal is something that they want to disparage with partisan cheapshots, then homo sapiens though I may be, I will stand shoulder to shoulder with my theoretically extinct low-browed slope-shouldered fellow hominids.

I am a Neanderthal.

Say it loud, say it proud. I AM A NEANDERTHAL!

I’d also like to congratulate Grayson on all the free national publicity he’s getting. Not bad for a coconut-brained baboon from Disneyworld.