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Mitchell schools Norquist: You’re ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to claim GOP didn’t hike taxes
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday told anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist that he was living in an “Alice in Wonderland world” after he claimed that Republican lawmakers had not violated the no-tax pledge by voting in favor of a fiscal cliff compromise that hiked taxes on the richest Americans. “Why…
Norquist: Fiscal cliff deal will cut taxes instead of raising them
Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist on Monday insisted that Republicans in Congress would hold the debt ceiling hostage to ensure that there would be no tax increases on even the wealthiest Americans as part of a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. During an interview with the founder of Americans…
Norquist: Obama might ‘blow up small countries’ for fun
Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist says that President Barack Obama will have to “blow up small countries” because Republicans will not let him have “any fun at all” spending taxpayers’ money. “Obama will be on a very short leash, fiscally speaking, over the next four years,” Norquist told C-SPAN on Thursday.…
Norquist: I hope Peter King’s wife knows commitments last ‘longer than two years’
Conservative anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist took a potshot at Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) marriage in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan Monday night while accusing him of trying to “weasel out” of the pledge to not raise taxes signed by many GOP lawmakers. “The pledge is not for life,” Norquist…
Norquist tells Soledad: Some Republicans having ‘impure thoughts’ about taxes
Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist predicts that none of the Republican who are having “impure thoughts” about taxes will actually break their pledge and vote for additional revenue. Since singing defeats by their party in the November elections, several Republicans who signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge — including Sen.…
Sen. Corker: I am ‘not obligated’ to follow Norquist pledge
Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is watching his political empire crumble. “I’m not obligated on [Norquist's] pledge,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said Monday, appearing on “CBS This Morning.” “I made Tennesseans aware I was just elected that the only thing I’m honoring is the oath I take when I’m sworn in…
Norquist calls C-SPAN caller a ‘very nice left-wing twit’
Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist on Wednesday blasted a “very nice left-wing twit” who thanked him for contributing to the destruction of the middle class in the U.S. During an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, a prankster calling in on the Republican line said that he made “seven figures” and he…
Jeb Bush slams Norquist’s tax pledge: Don’t ‘outsource your principles’
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Friday suggested that Republicans were outsourcing their “principles and convictions” by signing Grover Norquist’s pledge to never raise taxes. During a House Budget Committee hearing, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asked the former governor if he agreed with the Americans for Tax Reform…
Simpson tells GOP: ‘For heaven’s sake, Norquist can’t murder you’
Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson (R) offered another colorful perspective from his cantankerous mind Sunday morning, urging Congressional Republicans once again to not be scared of anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist’s pledge of never raising any tax. “For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes…
Norquist: I came up with anti-tax pledge when I was 12
Tuesday night on The Daily Show, Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist said he came up with his influential anti-tax pledge when he was in the seventh grade. “My team is winning,” he told the Daily Show’s Samantha Bee. “Your team is winning?” she responded. “It’s like you came…
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