Norquist pledge takes election hit (Norquist’s majority in Congress is all but gone.)
Source: The Hill
Norquist pledge takes election hit
By Russell Berman - 11/13/12 05:00 AM ET
Republicans might have held the House, but Grover Norquist’s majority in Congress is all but gone.
Fewer incoming members of the House and Senate have signed the pledge against tax increases run by Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, in a reflection not only of the seats that Democrats gained but of the success they’ve enjoyed in vilifying Norquist.
About a dozen newly elected House Republicans refused to sign the anti-tax pledge during their campaigns, and another handful of returning Republicans have disavowed their allegiance to the written commitment.
With Democrats picking up seven or eight seats, that means the pledge guides fewer than the 218 members needed for a majority. In the Senate, where Republicans lost two seats, just 39 members of the chamber are pledge-signers, according to the group’s records. That is a drop from 238 members of the House and 41 senators who committed to the pledge at the start of the 112th Congress.
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for life... with the tax devil....
Betting on the wrong horse 
CA-7 Dan Lungren ("I was a teabagger before we even invented the word, and I'm not a carpetbagger, so stop saying that"
is losing to Doctor Ami Bera in a slow arduous count.
The good doctor, Ami Bera is in Washington DC, today, learning the ropes, so to speak.
Hey, I'm tooting my horn here because I have been supporting Bera from day one and got cheated out of an election evening celebration.
