Good riddance, Grover Norquist
Suddenly, fashionable Republicans have shed their no-tax-pledge baggage.
When an ideology is pulled too taut, it is bound to snap. That appears to have happened to the rigid line held by intransigent House Republican troops at the command of their election field marshal, Grover Norquist.
Though Norquist’s name appeared on zero ballots on Election Day, his shadowy influence was put to the test, district by congressional district. The results, with Republicans holding their majority in the House, seemed to break Norquist’s way. Not quite. His flanks have fled.
November 15, 2012 - 8:04 AM
This is good news indeed. I’ve been saying for some time now, (but more frequently over the past two years), that as long as politicians are beholden to Grover Norquist and his bogus tax pledge, there is absolutely no way for the policy makers to ever come to some sort of compromise. The politicians that signed this pledge seem to be more concerned about their re-election funding that Norquist, Rove, Adelson and the Koch Bros. has supplied to them than what’s best for the country.
Amen #1. If the Republicans had good sense they would ban those you mention from their party – forever!