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Grover Norquist Makes Tony Soprano-Like Threats to Republicans Who Dare to Break His Pledge Grover Norquist Makes Tony Soprano-Like Threats to Republicans Who Dare to Break His Pledge After defending his anti-tax pledge to Soledad O'Brien on CNN this morning, Grover Norquist turned to Fox News this afternoon to continue the ... Rated: -1     Duration: 488 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:19:52 PST	GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions Dodges Breaking Grover Norquist Pledge On Fox News GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions Dodges Breaking Grover Norquist Pledge On Fox News While Republicans in Congress are doing everything they can to distance themselves from Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge while still ... Rated: -1     Duration: 143 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:51:23 PST	More Republican lawmakers break ranks with Grover Norquist - Cliffwatch More Republican lawmakers break ranks with Grover Norquist - Cliffwatch Prominent GOP Senators Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina became the latest lawmakers, along with Rep. Peter King to ... Rated: 4.2     Duration: 172 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:58:44 PST	Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham To ABC: I Would Violate Grover Norquists Pledge... Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham To ABC: I Would Violate Grover Norquists Pledge... Appearing on ABC's This Week on Sunday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) joined the chorus of Republican lawmakers who say they are willing ... Rated: -1     Duration: 147 seconds     Video type: YouTube     Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:09:14 PST
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More Republicans Abandon Grover Norquist's Anti-Tax Pledge ... said Sunday that they would be open to increasing the amount of money the government collects in taxes, with a senior Republican member of the U.S. Senate going so far as to say he is willing to break his earlier promise to not support tax hikes in any form. ... Doing so would violate Grover Norquist's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge," which both men have signed (as have most Republicans in Congress).

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Answer: Grover Norquist has never held elected office. He's not a political appointee or a congressional staffer, and few voters know his name. Yet this anti-tax lobbyist wields immense power over the Republican Party, enforcing a hard-line position that compels the GOP to protect tax breaks for the rich and billions in federal subsidies for America's wealthiest corporations. "It all comes from a single guy," says Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator. So how does Norquist do it? Norquist's influence over the GOP began in 1985, when Ronald Reagan tapped the little-known staffer at the Chamber of Commerce to head up Americans for Tax Reform, a pressure group organized to push a comprehensive tax package through Congress. With backing from the Chamber, Norquist – a Harvard MBA and former head of the College Republicans – challenged GOP candidates to take a two-part pledge: that they would never raise taxes, and that they would only close tax loopholes if the additional revenue was used to pay for further tax cuts. Before long, he had 102 congressmen and 16 senators signed up. Over the past 25 years, Norquist has received funding from many of America's wealthiest corporations, including Philip Morris, Pfizer and Micro­soft. To build a farm team of anti-tax conservatives, Norquist shrewdly took the pledge to state legislatures across the country, pressuring up-and- coming Republicans to make it a core issue before they're called up to the big leagues. "We're branding the whole party that way," Norquist says. "The people who are going to be running for Congress in 10 or 20 years are coming out of state legislatures with a history with the pledge." Norquist also built the anti-tax pledge into the DNA of the GOP by hosting weekly Wednesday meetings that enable activist groups representing everyone from gun nuts to home-schoolers to mix with top business lobbyists and conservative officials. The meetings, which began shortly after Bill Clinton was elected, turned Norquist into the Republican Party's foremost power broker – and gave him a forum to enforce the no-new-taxes pledge as the centerpiece of the GOP's strategy. "The tax issue," he says, "is the one thing everyone agrees on." Norquist cemented his influence by forging an early alliance with Karl Rove and setting himself up as a gatekeeper to George W. Bush's inner circle. Then, after Obama was elected, this ultimate Washington insider positioned himself as a leader of the anti-establishment Tea Party, complete with financial support from the billionaire Koch brothers. "These Tea Party people, in effect, take their orders from him," says Bruce Bartlett, an architect of the Reagan tax cuts. "He decides: This is a permissible tax action, or this is not a permissible tax action. And of course, anything that cuts taxes is per se OK." Today, GOP politicians who have signed Norquist's anti-tax pledge include every top Republican running for president, 13 governors, 1,300 state lawmakers, 40 of the 47 Republicans in the Senate, and 236 of the 242 Republicans in the House. What's more, the GOP's Tea Party foot soldiers are marshaled by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor – a veteran of Norquist's farm team, who first signed the pledge as an ambitious member of the Virginia legislature. Under Cantor's leadership, Norquist's anti-tax pledge was directly responsible for last summer's debt-ceiling standoff that wrecked the nation's credit rating by leading the nation to the brink of default. "Congress was willing to cause severe economic damage to the entire population," marvels Paul O'Neill, Bush's former Treasury secretary, "simply because they were slaves to an idiot's idea of how the world works."
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Who will be the next Republican to give Grover Norquist the finger?

In an attempt to tackle the anti-tax pledge he once signed, Rep. Senator Saxby Chambliss has broken loose his ties with famous anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist for urging officials to sign “taxpayer protection pledge.” More and more Republicans are now thinking of joining hands with Democrats over dealing with the so-called fiscal cliff and Saxby’s stance comes amid the ongoing discussions. "I care more about this country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge," Chambliss told Georgia television station WMAZ on Thursday. "If we do it his way, then well continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that." A number of Republicans have signed the tax payer protection pledge that was created in 1986 by Norquist. However, its effects and those of the “Gang of Eight” group of senators, a bipartisan alliance trying to work out ways of deficit reduction since the country was pulled back from the verge of default last year, of whom, Senator Chambliss is also a member, have begun to fade since Republicans loss in the 2012 election.
Answer: Conservatives won't like this answer. Grover Norquist is the president & founder of Americans for Tax Reform Americans for Tax Reform is funded 100% by the Koch brothers. Politicians who sign Norquist's pledge get campaign funds from the Koch brothers. Politicians who don't, don't. This means the Koch brothers are essentially hijacking the Democratic process. They are advancing their own personal interests over the interests of the country, which is the main complaint liberals have about conservative politicians. As you can see, this criticism has a valid basis. So when politicians turn their back on Norquist they're actually allowing the Democratic process to work.
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Grover Norquist on Monday found a new way of dismissing a handful of Republican lawmakers — including the House majority leader — who are now publicly wavering about the pledge they signed to never vote for a tax increase. Mr. Norquist, the anti-tax crusader who urges every new lawmaker to sign his pledge, joked on CNN's “Starting Point” that “we've got some people discussing impure thoughts on national television.” But he insisted that the vast majority of ...

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One afternoon late last month, I paid a visit to the offices of Americans for Tax Reform, the conservative lobbying outfit headed by Grover Norquist. Though Norquist ranks among the Republican Partys leading operators, neither he nor his organization is quite yet a household name. Outside the Beltway, he is known mainly, if at all, for the - Nicholas Confessore article on how Grover Norquist and his organization Americans for Tax Reform have altered tax code during Bush administration and what tax reform Bush will propose; group was formed at behest of Pres Ronald Reagan to rally grass-roots conservative Tax Reform Act of 1986; from that effort, so-called Pledge was born, promise by members of Congress never to vote to raise tax rates; after four rounds of largely Republican-inspired tax legislation, tax code is profoundly different than when Bush took office; while White House has never publicly laid out rationale for policies, changes appear to be headed to shifting entire tax burden away from savings and investments and toward raising revenue exclusively from taxes on labor; consequence of policy is that greater porportion of revenues will come from middle class, having overall effect of shrinking government; speculation on future changes; drawings (L) - Nicholas Confessore, a former editor at The Washington Monthly, is a reporter for The New York Times. - By Nicholas Confessore

Is Grover Norquist the god of the GOP and the rich?

the true victor of the midterm elections last year was not the Tea Party, or even Speaker of the House John Boehner. It was Grover Norquist. "What has happened over the last two years is that Grover now has soldiers in the field," says Bartlett, the architect of the Reagan tax cuts. "These Tea Party people, in effect, take their orders from him." Indeed, a record 98 percent of House Republicans have now signed Norquists anti-tax pledge – which includes a second, little-known provision that played a key role in the debt-ceiling debacle. In addition to vowing not to raise taxes, politicians who sign the pledge promise to use any revenue generated by ending a tax subsidy to immediately finance – thats right – more tax cuts. Norquist insists the measure is necessary to force Congress to rein in spending. "Im not focused on the deficit," he says. "The metric that matters is keeping spending down." But in the real world, the effect of Norquists oath is to prevent the government from cutting the deficit by ending tax breaks to the rich. All told, tax breaks cost the government $1.2 trillion each year – far more than defense spending ($744 billion), Medicare and Medicaid ($719 billion) or Social Security ($701 billion). And most of the breaks – think of them as government subsidies delivered through the tax code – go to the wealthy. The richest one percent of Americans receive a 13.5 percent boost in their incomes from such subsidies – almost double the benefit the bottom 80 percent receives. Under Norquists pledge, lawmakers are forbidden from ending any kind of tax break – mortgage deductions for luxury vacation homes, subsidies for giant oil companies, lower tax rates for private-equity millionaires – without using the money to pay for another tax cut. "If you cant get rid of tax expenditures – if old Grover is going to call that a tax increase – its not just ludicrous, its deception," says Simpson, the former GOP senator. Ludicrous or not, Norquists intransigence on tax expenditures killed the "grand bargain" that President Obama proposed during the debt-ceiling standoff. In return for $1 trillion in cuts to social spending and national security, plus another $650 billion in reductions to entitlements like Medicare, Obama asked Republicans to get rid of $1.2 trillion in wasteful tax subsidies. "Democrats werent talking about raising taxes – they were talking about eliminating tax expenditures, for Gods sakes!" says Voinovich. "Many of them should have been eliminated a long time ago." But with so many Republicans committed to Norquists anti-revenue pledge, Boehner was forced to walk away from the deal. "Grovers got em terrified," says Simpson. "I always tell Republicans, Hell, Grover cant kill ya. He cant burn down your house. The only thing he can do to you is defeat you in re-election – and if re-election means more to you than your country, then you shouldnt be in the legislature." Are Republicans worried more about retaining their jobs than what is right for our economy? @coldfuse. Didnt you mean to actually try and answer the above info. Or are you merely deflecting (as usual)? @coldfuse. Didnt you mean to actually try and answer the above info. Or are you merely deflecting (as usual)? @coldfuse. Again, youre sidestepping the issues. I never claimed authorship so your point is moot. Either answer the above or dont. Something tells me...you cant. And we both know why.
Answer: Didn't you mean to give credit to Paul Waldman for writing this? http://prospect.org/article/has-grover-norquist-made-himself-unnecessary EDIT: Really? That is your response to someone who has corrected your question so that it no longer appears plagiaristic? Yours is a very broad position, developed by someone else, which would take far more than the time it is worth for response. Apparently the left has become as obsessed with Grover Norquist as Glenn Beck has with George Soros.
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Sen. Jeff Sessions Dodges Breaking Grover Norquist Anti-Tax Pledge

"we've got to deal with the crisis we face. We've got to deal with the political reality of the president's victory." This is a human spine does anyone in DC have one?

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