by digby
Grayson has emerged as the most effective anti-war voice in the US House of Representatives:
Rep. Alan Grayson joined Ari Rabin-Havt on The Agenda on SiriusXM Progress early Wednesday morning to reflect on President Obama’s speech to the nation about taking action in Syria, and what he as a Congressman is doing to prevent it.
Rep. Alan Grayson’s website, www.dontattacksyria.com, has received almost 100,000 signatures.
“The forces of peace stood up, shouted, and got heard for once”, Rep. Grayson exclaimed.
“I think that the public is repelled by (the idea that war is for Washington elites to decide). It’s the public’s money and it’s the public’s blood that’s at stake and on the line here.”
There are many things our polarized citizenry disagrees on. But Syrian intervention has a clear bipartisan majority that agrees down the line and for the same reasons. That doesn’t happen very often these days and because Washington is so reflexively partisan if has lost the ability to see it when it does.
Grayson is enemy #1 of conservative pundits everywhere but he is able to sneak behind enemy lines and speak to the people (and his conservative political colleagues) in a common language. It’s a powerful ability which few politicians have. Bill Clinton comes to mind.
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