Grover Norquist warns Dems, GOP: The anti-tax pledge will hold
The anti-tax zealot says Republicans will not cave, and won't be fooled by Democrats into raising taxes
BY DAVID DALEY
Grover Norquist has a warning for anyone who thinks the influential anti-tax advocate has lost power in Washington.
“No one is caving,” the head of the Americans for Tax Reform told the Wall Street Journal, in a wide-ranging weekend interview.
Norquist — who built his power by getting hundreds of House Republicans and Congressional candidates to sign a pledge vowing to never raise taxes — has been perceived to be on the defensive since House Speaker John Boehner and even Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested they would be open to new revenues in a compromise to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff.”
In the weeks since the election, as talks centered around a compromise, fear of violating Norquist’s pledge appeared to diminish. But Norquist insists that the power dynamic has not changed, despite the re-election of President Obama and the apparent willingness of the GOP leadership to work with him to head off mandatory defense spending cuts and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.
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I think that Grover's power base might finally be crumbling. It's not just those of us who see Norquist as a class warrior leading many of the troops of the top one percent and those of us lesser folk who depend on government pensions who worry about the effects of political blackmail by a sociopathic whack-job on their pensions and medical assistance, but I believe that many less-reactionary people might FINALLY be wondering if Norquist's notions might be dragging the US from the ranks of the top-ranked countries into something resembling Argentina or post-Soviet Russia.
Even some of the "bidnessmen" who have been reflexively funding the GOP over the last few decades might have woken up to the point where they've noticed the financial crises abroad and that Norquist/Tea Party antics might bring the same sort of (stuff) home to our own shores.
I think that keeping the federal government solvent is a patriotic position. Don't you?
and remember, he only cares about CORPORATE TAXES. If rates go up on middle-or-lower income people, he's perfectly fine with THAT.
many in the middleclass and poor say go over the cliff. Recoup all the money and return some of it to entitlements. Grover can't do a thing about it. The part you don't return, pay down the Deficit. We'll begin kicking them out of office, starting 2014, if they don't want to compromise and take our offer. We dictate the terms period. Take it or leave it, your move.
and take your 'Grover-Groupies' republicans with you.
