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- The only way the Republicans can get out of Norquist's extorsionist grip is if the country goes over the fiscal cliff (or rather "slope"). Then, Norquist loses all his power. Taxes automatically go up, spending comes down. Then like slaves that were freed by Lincoln, the shackles of the entire GOP in Congress will come off. And, we can finally get rid of this menace to our country.
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- Who besides the Republicons are listening to this rich, corrupt, unelected corporate lobbyist. Norquist is as much a symptom of our sick corporate driven society as Robbed Me Ryan were. They stand for everything that has gone wrong since Reagan.
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- It is pretty obvious that there is a lot of blame pointed at Norquist. While I find this person to be nothing more than a very poor example of an American citizen and hope that karma rains down on his happy pathetic life, the blame goes strictly to the "representatives" of Americans as a whole who were elected to office. Twenty years ago when he demanded all Republicans sign his extortion paper, that should have been a sign to every American that their GOP reps were not there for them. Whether conservative Americans agreed with Groover or not is irrelevant. Elected officials have one pledge and that is to America. As far as I am concerned the GOP was treasonous by allowing themselves to be bought off, bamboozled, or downright cowards to sign anything that circumvents the office they are there to uphold. Anyone who would do this needs to forfeit their position.
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- Norquist must be illiterate since he has failed to read where Obama
has actually put his proposals on the table both during
the campaign and since. Any Repub that honors the pledge should
resign in disgrace for putting political ideals before country. - Reply to this comment
- I wouldn't trust Grover Norquist for all the tea in China. Ronald Reagan's domestic policy was a failure. On the other hand his foreign policy deserves an A+... but beyond this Reagan overall gets a D- for his two terms in office. Moreover, Reagan lied more than he told the truth while in office. On a sadder note, Republicans call themselves the Party of Abraham Lincoln... something I would be totally ashamed to admit. One reason I claim this, is Lincoln was a racist. He didn't care one iota about the Black race. In fact he told his cabinet that if the South would return to the Union, during the Civil War, he would allow racism to continue in the South unperturbed. That as far as he saw it, the Black race was not the equal to the White race, espousing Darwinian philosophy. Republicans still harbor these mythical, unrealistic, ethnocentric sentiments today in 2012. It is fair to argue that the Republican Party needs restructuring from top to bottom. That in truth, there is no excuse for their unreasonable attitude toward fair-play. That their unyielding posture today is indicative of what they truly stand for... that being pre-Civil War traditions and values. www.globalbabbler.com
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- I'm hoping the President sticks to his guns about rolling back the Bush tax cut on people earning over $250,000 - even if it means that we don't get a deal until January. We can't be held hostage by GOP ideologues and their ludicrous no tax pledge. If the Republicans don't want to do the job they were sent to Washington to do, then the Democrats will do it for them.
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- Norquist is a one-trick pony that was elected by no one. His only tool is a hammer, so every problem, every situation looks like a nail.
Economy overheating....cut taxes, economy in the doldrums...cut taxes, economy in trouble....cut taxes, need jobs, cut taxes. When you offer the same solution no matter the situation, you have nothing because it has not credibility. That person is driven by agenda and ideology, not fact and logic.
Go away, Grover, and let Americans loyal to the country, not your pledge, get on with governing. - Reply to this comment
- Finally, we get the the real issue: American Capitalism is a consumer-obsessed, debt-based system.
Q: Now the government is in debt and we ask why?
If America is, like so many staunch capitalists assert, the greatest nation in the world, then why has our system brought us to this?
All the mountains of capital that were generated in the last decade, the greatest concentration of wealth that the world has ever seen, and none of it has trickled down? Geez, what a surprise!
Are you starting to get the picture yet? If not, you are a slow learner. - Reply to this comment
- Once again, no concrete plan from the conservatives. The American public is sick of the talk - we want action. So create a plan and pass it in congress or it didn't happen - regardless of party. Congress is the sole hold-out here, and where it is currently run by the Republicans, they are on the hook until this gets solved - period.
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- Why does anyone give this blowhard Norquist the time of day? His policy preferences are utterly wrong headed and the man has been elected to NOTHING, so why should anyone listen to his far right extremist crazy talk?
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