Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said Monday that his group, Americans for Tax Reform, would work to unseat Republicans who break their pledge to never vote for higher taxes.
Good. I wish him and his organization's extortionist efforts abundant success.
Congressional Republicans deserve as a worrisome burden the same kind of unthinking extremism that they've been dishing out for years--and Grover is just the unthinking extremist to impose it.
I've always considered Norquist's "pledge" to be just this side of seditious (in that he attempts to conspire with certain legislators to impede one of the necessities of orderly, constitutional, government that is, taxation). I had always hoped that he would be indicted. Now, he may suffer a worse fate, irrelevance, as I believe that even Republicans have a finely honed sense of self-preservation. And public opinion is now running firmly against them and their intransigence. At least I hope so.
Posted by: BobH | November 26, 2012 at 01:26 PM
I don't buy any of this republican Grover Bashing for one second. He is just their most politically convenient target at the moment, but if you listen to them further they have no more interest in working with the president than they ever did, pledge or no pledge. Besides, if he threatens them with a teabag primary challenge, can't they just counter with pointing out that nominating a more extremist republican in their place will only result in a democrat winning the general election? They have the perfect example of this in the form of Richard "Rape babies are god's will" Moudock who beat out Dick Lugar in the primaries only to get his sorry ass handed to him by the democratic winner of that race.
Posted by: AnneJ | November 26, 2012 at 02:24 PM