Grover Norquist delivers the GOP’s marching orders

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All hail Grover Norquist!

Bow down, Lindsey Graham. The Republican senator from South Carolina dared to say he might consider supporting a tax increase — but then Norquist paid him a visit on Wednesday. “Every once in a while you have somebody with an impure thought like Lindsey Graham,” Norquist told me. But after their talk, Norquist could report that “Graham will never vote for a tax increase.”


Kneel before him, Tom Coburn. The Republican senator from Oklahoma had toyed with the idea of supporting a deficit-reduction deal that includes some tax increases, before Norquist conquered him. “He had a moment of weakness where he thought you had to raise taxes to get spending restraint,” Norquist said. “He now knows that’s not true.”

Prostrate yourselves, House Republicans. On Thursday, a day after Republican senators hosted Norquist on their side of the Capitol, GOP House members opened up the Ways and Means Committee room so that he could counsel them on The Pledge, an anti-tax edict written by Norquist and signed by all but four House Republicans, most Republican senators and Mitt Romney.

Lawmakers leaving their private audience with Norquist were agog at his majesty. “I agree with him tremendously,” reported Rep. John Fleming (R-La.).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-tax-pledger-keeps-republicans-in-line/2012/06/22/gJQAPOJ6uV_story.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. "Bend Over For Grover" - great GOP bumper sticker

Assholes. All of them.

[russspeakeasy]

4. Good one.

[BarbaRosa]

10. +1

[BarbaRosa]

22. Having thought about this overnight, I love it.

next time a repub accosts me about a vote, one of my first questions will be "Are you a bend over for grover republican?

I love the tag. . .bend over for grover repub. . !

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. How did this guy get so much power over the GOPers?

Does he have incriminating photographs of Lindsey Graham, et al., with farm animals? I don't get it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. I can't figure that out, either.

He must have the original negatives, or something.

He says "shit", they say "how much and what color?"

[russspeakeasy]

6. That, is a distinct possibility.

[spanone]

8. don't they pay congressmen through taxation?

[Scootaloo]

9. Easy; MONEY

Norquist's "ideas" - much like those of Friedman, Hayek, et al - these "supply side" ideas - are well-designed for massive transfers of wealth from the public many to the private few. The private very few. It's those very few who cut checks for the Republican party.

So Norquist walks into the local republican congressperson's office - unannounced of course, his nutsack is tanuki-sized like that - and lays down the law. "The Law" in this case is that unless they are 100% on board with grape-press economics (crush a few thousand grapes for one glass of expensive wine) their funders will no longer fund them. If these politicians start acting like politicians - that is, public servants - rather than tools in service of capital, then capital will turn on them. And they can go back to being part of hte hungry masses in no time.

Norquist himself has no magical powers. He's just the latest messenger now that Friedman's withered corpse is six feet underground (and hopefully capped with concrete)

[hifiguy]

17. The old scumbag may be dead, but his zombie

ideas live on. When the history of these times is written in a hundred yeare - if humanity survives that long - Milton Friedman's name will be on the same list as those of Mao, Stalin and Hitler as one of the greatest creators of mass human suffering in the name of an insane ideology. He is truly one of the most horrifying monsters humanity has ever vomited forth.

[sad sally]

21. Don't forget the three Democrats he's hypnotized into signing his pledge -

Senator Ben Nelson and Congressmen Robert Andrews (NJ) and Ben Chandler (KY)

[Dirty Socialist]

3. Graham, Coburn,and Fleming have been assimilated

In other words, they have been absorbed into the body. Praise Landru!

[Thinkingabout]

7. It is time to set our sights on defeating spineless Grover oathers

Our country is falling further in debt while the elected ones are Grover puppets. It would not tale but a few to talk straight to get this turned around. Grover is making a living off our backs and don't care about results of his oath.

[wandy]

11. I do not, will not advocate violence. I advocate justus.

Elected officials take an oath of office. This oath is to serve the united states FIRST and FOREMOST.
This oath has nothing to do with serving a make pretend king such as Grover Norquist.
For serving any cause/oath that puts a privet cause ahead of the well beinging of the United States is Treason.
Any peoples representative placing an oath to a petty king should be tried for treason.
Let the chips fall where they may.

In addition any person advocating or acting against the best interest of the United States can be tried for treason.
Grover Norquest advocates for the power of the elate forsaking the greater national need for to provide for the common good.
I think it fair that Grover Norquist be tried for treason.
Let the chips fall where they may.

Should Grover Norquist be found innocent of treason....

Then at least we know where we stand.

[Woody Woodpecker]

12. Why isn't Grover Norquist NOT in Marion, Indiana - waiting for the big needle for TREASON!?

He has committed treason.

[meow2u3]

16. What he's doing is technically not treason, but rather sedition

He's the ringleader of the GOP anti-American sedition. He belongs in a supermax cell for the rest of his misbegotten life.

[rgbecker]

13. Oh, and NRA.

http://meetthenra.org/nra-member/Grover%20Norquist

Why doesn't Rmoney pick the guy for Veep? Tea Party Heaven.

[spanone]

15. thanks! didn't know that.

[meow2u3]

14. Isn't Norquist the guy with who has ties to jihadists, partially through his Muslim wife?

An Islamist jihadist sympathizer telling an entire political cult party how to vote? If this isn't an act of terrorism, what is?

Oops, I forgot. Only Democrats are jihadist sympathizers. Republicans can do no wrong.

[hifiguy]

18. Norquist apparently decided he didn't have the integrity

and decency necessary to pimp child prostitutes or make "crush" videos (Google it - even typing it makes me want to retch) so he does what he does.

Honestly, I hate many Republicans - and I mean hate - but I hate Norquist more than any other person on earth. He is an utter monster in human form. Even a disgusting pervert like Sandusky has an inbuilt limit on the number of people whose lives they can ruin. Norquist's goal is to literally destroy everyone in this country except for the 1%.

[UTUSN]

19. Bwah-ha-HAH: "Over the CLIFF!1" nt

[WorseBeforeBetter]

20. Grover has set his sights on North Carolina...

N.C. politics could be making a hard right

North Carolina next January may be looking at the first complete Republican control of state government since 1898, with the GOP in charge of the legislature, the governor’s office and the high courts. Which is just fine with Grover Norquist, one of nation’s leading conservative strategists, who was in Raleigh last week to – among other things – meet with Republican leaders to think big thoughts about what GOPGOV might look like.

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Norquist is urging the lawmakers to move to a single-rate tax – either a single-rate income tax or a single-rate sales tax. It would replace a graduated or progressive tax with a flat tax.

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Norquist would like to see major changes in public education, an end to tenure for public school teachers and vouchers for parents that would allow them to educate their children in private schools at public expense.

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With no Democratic governor to deal with, he also sees a Republican legislature taking further steps toward tort reform or laws making it harder for individuals to sue companies. It is not lost on Norquist that in addition to policy goals, a move to cripple public employee groups and hamper trial lawyers also would strike a major blow to the state Democratic Party’s efforts to ever mount a political comeback in North Carolina.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/06/17/2141994/nc-could-be-headed-toward-hard.html#storylink=cpy

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

23. Grover's Grovelers and their new hit record

"Something tells me I'm into something no good"

[bobthedrummer]

24. K&R n/t