Who calls the shots in the DC Bubble?
Who puts the 'grid' in Tea Party Gridlock?
Who puts the 'joy of austerity' in slashing Government Services?
Two words: Grover Norquist.
The Pledge: Grover Norquist's hold on the GOP
60 Minutes -- Nov20, 2011
Steve Kroft takes a look at Grover Norquist, the man many blame for holding up the deficit-reduction process because of the anti-tax pledges he has obtained from nearly all the Republican politicians in Washington.
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If Grover wants to shrink all Government services, through the exploiting "branding" of the GOP, as he puts it, as the No Taxes Party
-- then Grover should have to claim ownership of the Tax-starved Economy, his clever branding has brought the rest of us.
Fair is only fair.
He's still at it too. Fall in line, or fall out of kingmaker favor.
It's Grover's way, or the Highway ... as most GOP Candidates know.
Grover Norquist Reminds GOP Lawmakers Of His 'Naughty Or Nice' List
Christina Wilkie, huffingtonpost -- 12/12/11
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"He's making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice!" said the first of two passerby in the cartoon. "That's Grover Norquist!?" exclaimed the second. Click here to see the cartoon.
Even tongue-in-cheek, the implication is clear: Republicans who aren't on board with Norquist can expect to face consequences.
It's hardly a secret on Capitol Hill that Norquist revels in the outsized influence he wields over Republican lawmakers, all but a handful of whom have signed his pledge against any form of tax increase on any sector of the economy. [...]
The guy does seem kind of proud of his accomplishments ...
Grover Norquist on the success of the Conservative movement:Link to Clip
Since Grover is so dead set on starving Government, to drown it in a bathtub,
Then shouldn't he, and his followers, have to "own the results" of their extreme diet plan?
Because, without Taxes a country will crumble away, starting with its Infrastructure.
Taxes are Patriotic.
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
The country has been held back by the Norquist Tax-shirkers -- for HOW long now?
Reagan, who used to be advised by Grover, often said that "Government is the Problem"
When in reality, it is the mantra of Greed THAT is America's real Problem.
That is what the Norquist Economy, has set loose on America -- and indeed the World.
He turned loose the unfathomable notion that we can aspire to having a civilized world, without anyone ever have to pay for anything.
Taxes are Bad. Greed and endless Profits are Good. That is the Norquist way.
That is what has brought America to the impasses on every front; that is what prevents the country from moving forward. Simply because Grover Norquist says: Stop! No further.
In the Norquist Economy, what has been shrunk down to a specter of its former self, is our land once-full of Opportunities, Compassion, Ingenuity, and Hope.
That is what Grovernomics has done to America. And if allowed to continue, it will eventually end up "drowning," what's left of the American Dream, itself.
Indeed, in many cases his trickle-down tax-phobia already has ... killed the dream, for those of us who's luck has already run out ...
Who knew the American Dream, could be made so cheaply ... that almost anyone can afford a shot at it?
Two words: Grover Norquist.
He knew. Shoot, he planned it. Implemented it. Made it happen.
Grover's still at it too. Keeping his lists, and checking them twice ...