2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum‘Who The Hell Is Grover Norquist, Anyway?’ ... HW asks
Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist who authored a no-new-taxes pledge popular among GOP politicians, has called Republicans who raised taxes rat heads in a Coke bottle. A former Republican president who raised taxes during his administration, however, is now challenging Republicans to set aside the Norquist pledge.
In an interview with Parade Magazine, George H. W. Bush, who broke his no new taxes election pledge, said he didnt like the rigidity of pledges like Norquists. Who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway? Bush added:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/13/516248/george-bush-grover-norquist/
Kennah
(14,352 posts)Has someone been fucking with the space time continuum?
monmouth
(21,078 posts)Rosanna Lopez
(308 posts)Grover Norquist should be prosecuted for treason.
That's what the Founding Fathers and early Presidents would want if they were here.
Why should an unelected man who is not elected by the people and who has no accountability to the public, be allowed to go around and force half the elected Representatives in Congress to sign his no-tax pledge?!
It's outrageous and I doubt it would be allowed in any other Western country.
He is interfering with the entire political system and the economy.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)He's wound tighter than a bull's ass during mating season.
No way can a man live very long with such tension 24/7.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)if they don't do what he tells them to do.