Guess what? ( ... drown govt. in the bathtub) Grover Norquist has won.

[Cyrano]

If you don't know who Grover Norquist is, he's one of the architects of the fascist plan that put us where we are today. An ex-Young College Republican, he's a buddy of Cheney, Rove, DeLay, Abramoff, congressmen, lobbyists, and every diseased wingnut vermin you wouldn't want to share a planet with. (Google the K Street Project, a DeLay/Norquist operation designed to screw us all.)

Norquist is a one-man plague whose most famous saying is that government needs to be shrunk down to where "... we can drown it in the bathtub."

Out of a job? Up to your ears in debt? Getting screwed on prescriptions? Watching the wealthy getting their taxes slashed? Asking why your vote never seems to count? Wondering why the insurance on your home, car, and health keep going up? Pissed to the point where you want to rip the wings off flies?

Well, don't blame King George alone. He's too ignorant to have pulled this off without a road map. And Grover Norquist is one of the chief map makers. (Check him out on Google. There are over a million entries on this malignant tumor posing as a human being.)

[Greeby]

1. Or put it on a billboard outside his office like these guys did

[BOSSHOG]

2. And more young republicans are avoiding military service

and are in training to take norquists and his ilks place when the time comes. The scum of today will not know first hand the horrors of war and will, ala pearle and wolfowitz grow up to advocate never ending warfare and tax cuts for themselves. Incredibly evil constitution hating bastards.

[NotGivingUp]

3. Love your description...malignant tumor posing as a human being!

[madrchsod]

4. he came to the illinois

and tried to get the republican party to join his crusade but they politely told him that they can`t win elections in illinois if they did what he suggested they do. he is a grifter

[Ron Green]

5. Slavery is natural. Liberals fight against it, conservatives don't.

They see life on earth as the jungle it is, but they don't want to engage the higher process of risking their own skin (or bank account) to help those who they see as lesser than themselves.

So they allow natural market forces of trickery and oppression to penalize the less clever (and lazy) and enrich the schemers.

[FormerDittoHead]

6. Everyone here should know who Grover Norquist is...

You're spot on.

I think Norquist's success is as much of a surprise to him as it is to us.

If you look at his writings, I think the key here is that he honestly wanted the Democrats (who were in power when he started) to come up with alternatives to judges making laws, runaway law suits, etc. rather than just sit by and let the whole system be torn down as it has been.

Norquist reminds me of a successful magazine. The success of a magazine is dependent upon how well it can niche out a market suitable for particular advertisers (representing a majority of a magazine's income).

Norquist was able to use his 'frames' to create a pro-rich/corporate agenda which would otherwise be palatable through appeals to 'fairness', 'the founding fathers', 'liberty' etc... From there, he was able to get financing to keep his work going (along with the Heritage Foundation, Cato, AEI, et al) from the rich who would rather finance political think tanks than pay taxes (think tanks are otherwise tax deductible, although they pay handsome salaries to their pundits, contributions made to them is treated the same as money given to the Red Cross).

The reason I'm going on so much about him is that I think he and his ilk are a greater threat than Bush.

I think that because you can get rid of Bush, but as long as the "engine" of the "conservative" philosophy remains alive and well, the destructive seeds they sow will forever be sprouting weeds.

[EVDebs]

7. Norquist is a Bolshevik. The withering away of the state is same goal

that RightWingNuts have in common with Commie-Pinkos ! They've come full circle.