New Progressive Leadership: "We DON'T Need Truth & Reconciliation-We'll Put People In Prison"

[kpete]

Bold Progressives

by dday

Alan Grayson has defeated Rep. Rick Keller to pick up a seat in the House for the Democrats. This one is great. Grayson is a better Democrat, a guy who went after fraudulent defense contractors who were wasting taxpayer dollars in Iraq. He's a bold progressive. He's going to be a leader in Congress.

Here's Grayson on the Bush Administration:

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Matt Stoller: So, people are going to say, let bygones be bygones, or let's have some sort of truth and reconciliation commission, what do you think needs to happen?

Alan Grayson: We don't need truth and reconciliation, we need punishment. We need people to be held accountable for all the mistakes that they made that have screwed us up in this war and screwed us up in this economy. The economy is falling apart, the chickens are coming home to roost. You cannot spend $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in America for a war that never should have taken place in the first place.

Matt Stoller: But be specific, what do you mean by punishment?

Alan Grayson: We'll put people in prison. We'll take away the thing that they care about the most, their money. They stole, they hurt the troops, they killed people, they hurt the taxpayers year after year and they've destroyed this economy. They're not going to get off scot-free.

Matt Stoller: Who's 'they'?

Alan Grayson: The people who have been running this government and their assistants who have been running companies like Halliburton. Think about it, we have a Vice President who was the head of Hallburton, who got a $23 million parting gift from them when he became Vice President. And he was the one who instigated this war and made Halliburton the largest army contractor in existence.

Awesome.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/bold-progressives-by-dday-alan-grayson.html

[aquart]

1. I wish him luck with that.

I don't want ANY reaching across the aisle without full disclosure and honest testimony.

Any Republican who still wants to cover up for those bastards should be trying to get unemployment (except they cut the money for it).

[charlie]

2. I like this guy a lot

Boy, do I like this guy.

You grab any 5 random Republicans and 4 of them will have the go-for-broke audacity to do any damn thing, say any damn thing it takes to get what they want.

For some unfathomable reason, guys like that are rare on our side. So, we're the goobs who get our lunch money stolen, day in day out. That's got to fucking change.

[Elidor]

3. I'd imagine there's quite a few people sweating bullets today

If I was involved in, say, secret CIA prisons over the last eight years, a McCain victory would've been my best hope to stay out of prison myself. There are documents to be shredded, lawyers to be called, bodies to be buried.

[JHB]

4. Imagine a new tradition in Washington...

...A new tradition of holding people accountable for crimes they commit.