Grover Norquist

Grover Glenn Norquist is a lobbyist, pundit, and political boss in the GOP who's basically the real-life version of His political philosophy can be boiled down to two words: tax cuts. For this reason, those with perpetual tax cut fetishes are often called "Norquistas," as his appetite for tax cuts is pretty legendary.
Norquist is classified as "socially liberal" due to his work with GOProud and other minority outreach groups,Doug Mataconis, "Grover Norquist Joins Gay Conservative Group GOProud", Outside the Beltway.Franklin Foer, "Grover Norquist's strange alliance with radical Islam", New Republic.Bety Woodruff, "Glenn Beck Thinks Grover Norquist Is a Muslim Brotherhood Mole. Now, the NRA Is 'Investigating'", Slate. but he only pays lip-service to stuff like gay marriage in order to get more tax cuts. Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts.
==The tax cut blood oath==
Norquist is the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform (read: Americans for Tax Cuts). The organization has gotten thousands of political officeholders at the state and federal levels to sign its "Taxpayer Protection Pledge", which is an agreement to never, ever raise taxes, ever."What is the Taxpayer Protection Pledge?" The starve the beast strategy is pretty much synonymous with Norquist's name.
According to David Brock, Norquist keeps a picture of Lenin and quotes his advice, "Probe with bayonets, looking for weaknesses." It was a precept of the Nixon White House, for whom Norquist campaigned in the late 1960s. Norquist compares his efforts to take over the country via democratic means with a communist-style revolution.
Norquist has never held an elected office. Why would anyone sign his ridiculous pledge? Because the right is authoritarian, that's why. They like "promises" and "pledges" and whatnot. Pledge of Allegiance, virginity pledges, oaths to the Constitution, etc. It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. He's powerful because he's powerful. His "pledge", which has been going on for 20 years, sinks his hooks into Republicans at the state level, so if anyone breaks it now, it's easy to detonate it in a future primary. (He swore up and down not to raise your taxes, and look what he did! He breaks promises!) It was stupid of Republicans to ever limit their options like that in the first place.
==Jawohl!==
The estate tax is particularly evil according to Norquist. In fact, it's just like the Holocaust!
We don't wonder what Jews, in which a large majority vote Democratic, think about that logic.
==Praise Be to Saint Ronnie==
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Norquist has a gigantic man-crush on Ronald Reagan, though he takes it a bit further than others.https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2015/09/16/politics/ronald-reagan-naming-debate-2016/index.html He is currently the leader of the Reagan Legacy Project, an organization created for the sole explicit purpose of naming stuff after Reagan to trick people into thinking that he was a worthwhile leader (read: god among men). Parks, roads, post offices, Washington’s National Airport, and many other landmarks have been named after Reagan under this Project. Norquist has tried to make Reagan’s birthday a national holiday and has floated the idea of having Ronnie’s head replace that of Theodore Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore. Norquist has gone on record deriding Roosevelt as a “statist and progressive Republican”; it would seem that, in Norquist’s eyes, doing something for the benefit of non-wealthy people is an unforgivable mortal sin (maybe with the slight exception of cutting taxes, but then again, he and his cronies will only benefit more).
==Scandals==
===Hypocrisy===
Norquist was involved with weapon sales to the Contras during the Iran-Contra affairGrover Norquist: Field Marshal of the Bush Plan, The Nation and helped Jack Abramoff launder some money.Washington Tax Cut Advocate Aided Abramoff, Associated Press However, these were small bumps in the road compared to the scandal involving Mr. Norquist and his liaisons (wink wink) with several taxes, including an estate tax.Scandalous Photos Reveal Grover Norquist Carried On Secret Affair With Taxes For Years, The Onion
===Wingnuts eat their own===
Norquist has been the target of criticism from wingnuts due to his efforts at minority outreach. He helped co-found the "Islamic Free Market Institute" and has a Palestinian wife, so he obviously has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (if you're professional lunatic Frank Gaffney)!Frank Gaffney Braves Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration To Warn CPAC About Grover Norquist, Think Progress This doesn't help Norquist with certain foreign and American groups who have a vested financial interest in spreading the patent fiction that America is rapidly coming under the sway of sharia. Gaffney's voice was joined by a chorus of the usual GOP whack-jobs, like Bachmann, Horowitz, Gohmert, and Beck, all of whom are insistent that Grover Norquist and former GWB administration official Suhail Kahn are both surreptitiously appointing the Muslim Brotherhood to important posts within government agencies.Fitzpatrick, Brian, "Now look who else is infiltrating CPAC", WND (01/04/2011 at 8:00 PM). Here's what Gaffney told Brian Fitzpatrick of World Net Daily about the ongoing Islamic infiltration of America.Tashman, Brian, "David Horowitz Says Huma Abedin is 'Worse than Alger Hiss' and Grover Norquist is a 'Practicing Muslim' Subverting the GOP", Right Wing Watch (Monday, 10/1/2012 12:50 pm). Former-1960's lefty and Israeli lobbyist, David Horowitz, is another neoconservative goon pushing the same nonsense about Norquist and Anthony Weiner's Muslim wife.Blumenthal, Max, "The Great Islamophobic Crusade". Here's a fairly comprehensive article by Max Blumenthal detailing some of the people behind this whole charade.
He also sits on the board of GOProud, so he must be attempting to advance homosexual recruitment the homosexual agenda (if you're the Family Research Council)!
===Pseudoscience promotion===
It should come as no surprise that Norquist supports the right-wing's favorite pseudosciences. Americans for Tax Reform has been spewing global warming and DDT denial for quite some time.See, for instance, their "coverage" of Climategate It is also part of the Cooler Heads Coalition. Norquist has also voiced support for Intelligent Design. As to whether it should be taught in schools, however, he doesn't really care because public schools are the work of the government (read: Satan):
==External links==
*Americans for Tax Rebates
==References==
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