Egad! Grover Norquist is on my TeeVee right now

[Emit]

Must we endure the Grovers and Limbaughs and Hannitys? They are coming out of their worm holes...

Criticism of Obama's policies
GWEN IFILL: Are Republicans also right to say, as Rush Limbaugh has, that they hope that the president fails?

GROVER NORQUIST: Only President Obama equates himself with the nation. When people say, "I hope that Obama is stopped in his effort to raise taxes and spending," that's opposition to Obama's policies.



We want the country to succeed, which is why we oppose the bad things, the damaging taxes and spending and regulations and trial lawyer stuff that Obama and the Democrats are putting forward.

He is not Louis XIV, "L'etat c'est moi." It's the nerve of Obama to say that criticism of him is disrespectful to the country. He isn't the country. He is not Fearless Leader. He's the head of the executive branch of government.

GWEN IFILL: But he's an awfully popular president right now, Vin Weber. So what does the party do to establish its opposition without seeming as if they're on the wrong side here?

VIN WEBER: Well, you're right he's a popular president. And they have to treat him with great respect and deference. And the phrasing of how you oppose his programs has to be done so that you don't want America to fail, even if that's the interpretation that he seems to put on it sometimes.

But the Republicans can't simply embrace a left-wing agenda, which is increasingly what we're seeing out of this administration, not a centrist, bipartisan agenda, but a left-wing agenda, without losing their soul.

GWEN IFILL: So you -- when you say a left-wing agenda, you're speaking particularly -- pardon me -- about spending?

VIN WEBER: About spending, taxing, regulating, and the most substantial expansion of the size of government certainly in any of our lifetimes. The president is doing it because he believes in it. He campaigned on it. His party believes in it, but it's not what Republicans believe in.

As Grover pointed out, the reason we don't believe in it is because we think it's bad for America. Republicans didn't vote against the so-called stimulus package because they just wanted to try to embarrass President Obama. They voted against it because they thought it would hurt the economy, drive people out of work, drive down the stock market.


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june09/gop_03-03.html

[FarLeftRage]

1. Oh God....

another worthless fuck that doesn't deserve to be free...

hey grover, why don't you drown yurself in a bath tub?

[libodem]

3. egg-zackly

he needs to be shrunk first....

[watrwefitinfor]

2. The best part was when he tossed Bush to the wolves.

Said the poor Republican Party had been operating for 8 years with that ANCHOR tied around their necks dragging them down - George Bush.

Wonder how that sets with Poppie and his minions...

Ain't this fun?

Wat

[Arkansas Granny]

8. That really was the best part. I've seen some try to put some distance

between themselves and Bush, but I've never heard anyone refer to him as a boat anchor before.

[spanone]

4. i think the puke fuckers feel emboldened by the oxycotin king

they're all over the teevee

[Emit]

5. And it just legitimizes them when they are invited on

Gwen, oh Gwen, how could you?! Lehrer and Gwen usually do not succumb to so much hyperbole. Will Hannity be their next guest? And where oh where are the Dem talking heads?!

[tsuki]

6. Isn't he the one that wants to drown the middle class in the bathtub?

Why should I listen to him?

[pscot]

7. Nasty little shit, isn't he

I imagine him being stabbed to death in a gay love triangle.

[Joanne98]

9. Oh god! The fleas are out in force..

[KharmaTrain]

10. Keep The Lights On These Rats...

It's when they go underground they become dangerous.

The corporate media still hasn't gotten the memo that the repugnicans lost last November. They're still in their "fair and balanced" mode and thus give Grover a place to spew lies and bullshit. Despite being discredited, the GOOP PR machines and think tanks still are able to weasel their way onto the teevee under the guise that they somehow represent a sizeable opposition rather than the fringes. But in the bubbleworld of the beltway, it's not reality but gossip and spin that still rule.