Grover On 60 Minutes

I hope you watched the 60 Minutes segment tonight on Grover Norquist, lobbysist, powerbroker, moneyman, and head of Americans For Tax Reform. If you did, you watched a megalomaniac and a consummate asshole. (If you didn't see it, go to Buster's Links.)

As previously mentioned here ("We Pledge Allegiance to Grover Norquist" 7/18/11), he and his minions try to get every single Republican anywhere in the country to sign "The Pledge": No tax increases of any sort, for anything, no matter what, ever. Got that? Never, ever!

And they've been damn successful. Well over 90% of Republican U.S. Representatives and Senators have signed Grover's piece of paper. And he intends to hold them to it in perpetuity. Those R's who backslide are targeted for vicious attacks in future reelection efforts. Grover keeps score, and Grover gets even. If you cross him, he'll do everything he can to crush you.

The effect of this nonsense is that Grover believes that he alone controls the Republican party, and to a large extent, he does. He says there is one and only one issue of importance,and nothing else matters. Just keep repeating the no-taxes Republican "brand".

And so we get the Stupid Committee -- pardon me, Super Committee -- charged by President Obama with the task of cutting $1.2 trillion from our multi-trillion dollar deficit. And these geniuses cannot agree on $1.20, let alone a trillion. Why? The 6 R's on the committee won't seriously consider tax increases. The spectre of Grover haunts them and they won't deal intelligently with the problem. We need fair and equal emphasis on both the income and expense sides. But any proposal that in any way raises revenue is instantly demonized by Grover and his goons as a "tax increase". So the Stupid Committee will do nothing and die in futility. It was doomed from the start.

This is precisely what Grover wants -- fuck the debt and the deficit. Fuck government. Fuck it all. Just don't "raise taxes". This is insanity.

Grover Norquist is a tunnel-vision libertarian control freak with delusions of grandeur. He is funded by the deepest pockets and the biggest, most selfish corporate interests in the land. He is not the solution, he is the problem.


All people of good conscience and good sense across this great country understand that Grover's influence is counter-productive and downright unpatriotic.

New Slogan: A bad day for Grover is a good day for America.

Let's give him as many bad days as we can.