You may have heard of Rep. Alan Grayson, the Democrat from Florida. He first embarrassed himself and his constituents when he said that Republicans who oppose Obamacare “want you to die quickly.” He then unbosomed himself of the opinion that a woman adviser to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was a “K Street whore.”

Mr. Grayson, who represents Florida’s 8th district, has also created a Web site called “A Congressman with Guts,” to which some central Floridians responded with another Web site, “My Congressmen is Nuts.” They’re right.

The other day, the honorable gentleman took to the floor to read the “names of the dead,” meaning those who died because Republicans are blocking health care reform. And he erected another Web site, “Names of The Dead,” which invites readers to “share your story” about the death of a loved one.

The Web site, of course, is a risible invitation to fraud and tall tales. It permits readers to post their own stories about deceased “loved ones,” apparently without verifying whether they died or even existed.

Two stories at the site make the point.

In the first, a writer says, “[n]othing will ever bring my mom back to me but at least I have a place to share my moms story, she was in the hospital for about 4 days and on the last day one of my mom’s insurance companies didn’t feel like paying, so the hospital gave my mom an over Medicated dose of pain meds just to get her out and sent home and two hours later my best friend passed away at home from being over medicated.”

If true, Mr. Grayson had better contact law enforcement. However greedy those “insurance companies that didn’t feel like paying,” the hospital is to blame. After all, the writer alleges, it purposely overdosed the mother. That’s murder.

A second story involves a 28-year-old graphic designer with back pain. “Because he had no health insurance, he didn’t have it checked. Instead, he self-diagnosed it as a back injury due to work” and was diagnosed with “stage four liver cancer.” Very sad indeed. But then the writer says “that [he] had no health insurance and no income, the state paid all of his bills. The total must have been well over a million dollars.”

But wait a minute. If “the state” paid millions in bills, why did the young artist diagnose himself instead of going to the doctor sooner? He might have lived. If he didn’t go to the doctor because he had no insurance, why did he go to the doctor at all and how did he discover he had cancer? If he went to an emergency room when the pain was out of control, why didn’t he go earlier? Refusing an emergency patient, after all, violates federal law. The story just doesn’t wash.

Erecting a Web site such as this, which appeals to childish emotion and, again, invites fraudsters galore, elicits no more reliable information than any of other Web site with reader commentary. It is unchecked. It is unverified. We are simply supposed to believe.

Which brings us back to Mr. Grayson. The first two remarks were bad enough, and now this: reading the names of the dead on the floor of the House, and soliciting fairy tales on line. His party colleagues are rightly embarrassed, and most likely, his constituents are as well.

They will have their say in November 2010.