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Grover Norquist: impeach President Obama if he doesn't extend tax cuts for the rich
Norquist Looks Ahead
By Ed Kilgore
As screwed up as things are in Congress right now, it’s natural that nobody much wants to contemplate how much more screwed up things might be after the November elections unless one party or the other emerges with united control and something of a mandate. So it was interesting to read an interview Nancy Cook of National Journal conducted with everybody’s favorite right-wing commissar, power-broker and demagogue, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, about post-election scenarios:
Yes, “impeach.”
Now you have to appreciate that Grover is probably feeling a little long in the tooth lately, and perhaps impatient. With all the back-and-forth over who said and did what during the administration of St. Ronald Reagan, it’s bound to make him think back to his salad days in the early 1980s, when he as swaggering around Washington with a bumper sticker on his briefcase that read “I’d rather be killing commies,” an allusion to his pastime of hanging out with “freedom fighters” being backed by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Or perhaps he’s fondly remembering the later period when he was famous for harassing state legislatures and city councils to name things after Reagan.
Some of Grover’s more recent projects haven’t gone so well, most notably his effort to turn Muslim-Americans into a pro-Republican voting bloc (viz. the recent candidate debate in Florida, when a question from a Palestinian-American voter launched several of the would-be presidents into a lather of Muslim-bashing).
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_01/norquist_looks_ahead035063.php
By Ed Kilgore
As screwed up as things are in Congress right now, it’s natural that nobody much wants to contemplate how much more screwed up things might be after the November elections unless one party or the other emerges with united control and something of a mandate. So it was interesting to read an interview Nancy Cook of National Journal conducted with everybody’s favorite right-wing commissar, power-broker and demagogue, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, about post-election scenarios:
NORQUIST: If the Republicans have the House, Senate, and the presidency, I’m told that they could do an early budget vote—a reconciliation vote where you extend the Bush tax cuts out for a decade or five years…. then they pass the (Paul) Ryan plan (on Medicare).
NJ: What if the Democrats still have control? What’s your scenario then?
NORQUIST: Obama can sit there and let all the tax (cuts) lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach.
NJ: What if the Democrats still have control? What’s your scenario then?
NORQUIST: Obama can sit there and let all the tax (cuts) lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach.
Yes, “impeach.”
Now you have to appreciate that Grover is probably feeling a little long in the tooth lately, and perhaps impatient. With all the back-and-forth over who said and did what during the administration of St. Ronald Reagan, it’s bound to make him think back to his salad days in the early 1980s, when he as swaggering around Washington with a bumper sticker on his briefcase that read “I’d rather be killing commies,” an allusion to his pastime of hanging out with “freedom fighters” being backed by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Or perhaps he’s fondly remembering the later period when he was famous for harassing state legislatures and city councils to name things after Reagan.
Some of Grover’s more recent projects haven’t gone so well, most notably his effort to turn Muslim-Americans into a pro-Republican voting bloc (viz. the recent candidate debate in Florida, when a question from a Palestinian-American voter launched several of the would-be presidents into a lather of Muslim-bashing).
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_01/norquist_looks_ahead035063.php
Here's the actual title of the National Journal piece:
- Impeach Obama?
Grover Norquist predicts a rebellion if President Obama wins reelection and doesn’t extend the Bush tax cuts.
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Because I point out the fact that Obama has already extended the tax cuts for the rich, and based on that fact it is likely he will extend them again.
Sorry that reality is such a disappointment for you, but it is reality nevertheless. Unless you can point out to me where Obama didn't extend the tax cuts for the wealthy
if President Obama wins reelection and doesn’t extend the Bush tax cuts."!1!1!
Who's gonna rebel? It sure won't be the 99%.
And if it ain't the 99%, that leaves
1%.
Good luck with that, Grover...does the name Custer mean anything to you?
An unofficial, unelected fuckwad nobody. How I'd like to take the Roves, Palins, and Norquists of the
world and bang their empty little heads together. 
