Grover Norquist, in an appearance on MSNBC this morning, said a future Justice Department needs to open a probe into the Obama stimulus package. Watch the video below.
Speaking about Attorney General Eric Holder’s current investigation concerning the CIA under the Bush administration, Norquist had less to say about the substance of the probe and instead focused on how this could be good for future GOP presidencies:
Holder is making a decision that one administration should go back and second-guess another administration. Yes, it’s political, but he’s also opening the door…I think it’s a good idea, I think that someday when we have a different Justice Department, people need to go back and look at how all of this money in the stimulus package was paid, and who it went to. And what about all those secret meetings that were never transparent about who was going to get what?
Norquist is a conservative activist who is president of Americans For Tax Reform, an anti-tax lobbying group. He did not elaborate on which “secret meetings” he meant. The Obama administration has repeatedly plugged the website Recovery.gov, which provides a timeline of stimulus implementation, as well as link to Inspectors General’s reports on the act and a state-by-state breakdown of stimulus recipients.
“I didn’t expect that, you’re saying reviewing what another administration did makes sense?” clarified MSNBC’s Carlos Watson. Norquist responded “sure” and then launched into a critique of the Bush administration, calling them “foolish” for not looking into the “cash-for-pardons challenge that the Clinton administration had.”
“They were wrong to decide not to do that, and I think that the next Republican administration will follow Holder’s path rather than the Bush path of the past,” he said.
Norquist also criticized Holder for not investigating a voter intimidation case relating to the New Black Panther Party, saying that decision meant “Holder has announced that he’s completely political.”
