Well there are actually quite a few things but this one really hit me the other day.
Grover's "enough working digits" sound byte from earlier this year has gotten a lot of airplay, but just in the off chance that you haven't heard it......
We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.
Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States.....to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.
Grover Norquist, 2/13/12
It's not that it's arrogant - he's always arrogant.
It's not that he was disrespecting the crop of Republican hopefuls. I don't have much respect for them either.
It's that this statement challenges the very core of our constitution.
The three branches and their checks and balances were created specifically so that one branch would not have supreme power. The fact that the President must sign laws to execute them is because the founders didn't want the legislature unilaterally implementing laws.
Norquist's remarks are a statement that Congress should be the ultimate authority and the President's role is non-existent. It effectively eliminates the Executive branch as we know it.
If Romney wins, and the Republicans keep the house and eek out a majority in the senate, Grover will have his wish. The members of Congress, who for some odd reason are afraid of him will simply legislate what he dictates.
Grover Norquist will have complete control of the economic policy of the United States while holding no elected office.