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Archae

(46,345 posts)
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 12:45 PM Feb 2012

The Daily Show destroys Norquist...

Samantha Bee interviewed Norquist, and demolished him.

NORQUIST: My team is winning and it can be taught to Harry Reid. He wanted a $2.5 trillion tax increase last year and he didn't get it.

BEE: Your team is winning? It's like you came up with this whole idea when you were twelve.

NORQUIST: It was something I came up with when I was twelve, to get a teacher to...

BEE: I'm sorry, what did you say? You came up with this idea when you were...

NORQUIST: Seventh grade.

BEE: ...in seventh grade?

BEE (off camera): Yes, the entire federal government is paralyzed because of a document, written by a twelve year old, in 1968.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/daily-shows-samantha-bee-demolishes-grover

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mopinko

(70,205 posts)
5. this game only worked as long as the little man stayed behind the curtain.
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 01:12 PM
Feb 2012

it has got to be getting embarrassing to the few remaining grown ups in the other party.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
7. The Republicans' defining tax policy was written by a twelve year old
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 01:22 PM
Feb 2012

who has subsequently never had a productive job (just lobbyist), nor been elected. He did, however, help in the illegal movement of arms to right wing terrorists in Nicaragua and elsewhere.

That explains so much.

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