Not news: Congressman calls Norquist's anti-tax pledge "disingenuous and irresponsible." Holy Fark: Soon-to-be former Republican Congressman calls Norquist's anti-tax pledge "disingenuous and irresponsible"

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HawgWild: What I'm trying to figure out (I'm using the word "trying" loosely, here) is how he got the clout to get all those goobers to sign the damn thing to begin with ...

It's not hard to convince people to do something they want to do already.

Quasar: "Hell, I sign anything put in front of me."

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He looks like an outtake from To Catch a Predator.

Cheese and rice, Grover. farking shave that stubble off or grow a real man's beard. Just cause it tickles your pool boy's sack *just so* doesn't make it worth looking extra dumb.

You know what would make my day, and possibly my year? Seeing Norquist stomped into a puddle of anti-tax goo.

Swear to god, the sociopathic narcissism of this asshole makes Newt Gingrich look like Gandhi.

I'd love it if he just said it, "I would be willing to raise taxes if it meant cutting un-needed spending and getting our deficit under control, working toward debt reduction."

Maybe this is one of those "night is darkest right before the dawn" moments. Maybe we've reached derp bottom.

/probably not.

Yawn. Too little, too late. You still signed it, you old coot.

You know he's married to a Muslin?

Do you think it's possible she's encouraging him to weaken America? I'm just asking questions here.

HE IS NOT A HERO

He threw away his principles when the going got tough. I personally like that he did because not raising taxes when necessary is ignorant. But he still went back on his word. He even uses a counter-example by saying "What if I pledged to never to get involved in an armed conflict and then America is attacked".

I have met people who would rather be beaten to death then lift a finger in violence. Because they have principles.

Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" - which states that the signing lawmaker will never raise taxes for any reason, ever - has held Republicans in lockstep against tax increases in recent years.

It isn't the pledge it is that they are owned by and work for the super wealthy to the detriment of the middle class and poor. It's like a fat ugly dude signing a celibacy pledge in highschool. It isn't the pledge keeping him from getting laid.

HellRaisingHoosier: He threw away his principles when the going got tough.

And that's exactly what makes him a hero.

USCLaw2010: Maybe this is one of those "night is darkest right before the dawn" moments. Maybe we've reached derp bottom.

/probably not.

I don't think there is a bottom at this point. It's all just varying degrees of horribleness.

HellRaisingHoosier: HE IS NOT A HERO

He threw away his principles when the going got tough.

"Strong men know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle." - Andrew Carnegie

HotWingConspiracy: You know he's married to a Muslin?

Do you think it's possible she's encouraging him to weaken America? I'm just asking questions here.

people are wondering

Has the tea party asked for his head yet?

Grover Norquist: the world's most powerful case of arrested development.

HellRaisingHoosier: HE IS NOT A HERO

He threw away his principles when the going got tough. I personally like that he did because not raising taxes when necessary is ignorant. But he still went back on his word. He even uses a counter-example by saying "What if I pledged to never to get involved in an armed conflict and then America is attacked".

I have met people who would rather be beaten to death then lift a finger in violence. Because they have principles.

Ya, I agree, he is not a hero. You don't get to be labelled a hero for deciding to be a decent human being.

Now let's see the full and terrible firepower that Ol Grinny has to punish someone who dares to disobey him. I want every single politician to witness just how full of hot air but no sting this pampered spoiled BRAT really has, and that his so-called "pledge" isn't worth the dingleberries that will stick to it once it's used to wipe ass.

Diogenes: Last year, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) got into a high-profile spat with Norquist regarding the latter's insistence that cutting subsidies for ethanol would constitute a tax increase, calling Norquist's position "ludicrous."

Norquist is so evil he's making me say something nice about Coburn.

If I go to the supermarket today and buy a bag of frozen peas that's on sale for $1 off, then I go back and next week it's no longer on sale, that doesn't mean they hiked the price by a buck!!!

Honestly, this arrogant and ignorant little puke is holding the GOP hostage, and the few stray sane voices in the party are being punished for rejecting him.

but yet Norquist was in favor of raising payroll taxes!

dumbobruni: Diogenes: Last year, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) got into a high-profile spat with Norquist regarding the latter's insistence that cutting subsidies for ethanol would constitute a tax increase, calling Norquist's position "ludicrous."

Norquist is so evil he's making me say something nice about Coburn.

If I go to the supermarket today and buy a bag of frozen peas that's on sale for $1 off, then I go back and next week it's no longer on sale, that doesn't mean they hiked the price by a buck!!!

Honestly, this arrogant and ignorant little puke is holding the GOP hostage, and the few stray sane voices in the party are being punished for rejecting him.

but yet Norquist was in favor of raising payroll taxes!

It's almost as if Grover's opinion on tax policy is directly related to the political affiliation of the person that made the suggestion...naaaaah.

TV's Vinnie: Now let's see the full and terrible firepower that Ol Grinny has to punish someone who dares to disobey him. I want every single politician to witness just how full of hot air but no sting this pampered spoiled BRAT really has, and that his so-called "pledge" isn't worth the dingleberries that will stick to it once it's used to wipe ass.

Thank you. I'm now wiping coffee off the monitor because my inner 12-year-old read this post.

Gergesa: Wait...if we raise taxes how do we know tax money won't be used for abortions and to encourage gay sex while listening to music from Communist Russia under the stern atheist gaze of a Stalin painting?

Because Russian music, like Russian novels, is a known boner-killer.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: HellRaisingHoosier: HE IS NOT A HERO

He threw away his principles when the going got tough. I personally like that he did because not raising taxes when necessary is ignorant. But he still went back on his word.

This is retarded. If your bus-driver makes a pledge to never use his brakes under any circumstances, you're going to berate him for not holding to his convictions when he realizes how retarded that pledge was as he's accelerating toward a cliff?

He's an idiot for making the pledge to begin with, but being upset because someone is going back on their word to destroy the country because it shows a lack of conviction is retarded even amongst the retarded. It's retarded2.

That's the crux now isn't it? I mean, this guy made the right call... eventually. I think part of the problem is how lightly the pledge was made. The comments when breaking it all reflect a "Meh, I was just doing what was popular at the time" attitude. When putting yourself in the public sphere and signing your name to a cause or pledge, you should actually know what it's about and really believe in it.

If these rejections came from a place other than "Meh, now this is what is popular", then you'd have the rejections sounding like they came from careful introspection or learning more about the topic than they knew when they signed it. this is just coming across as parroting what every thinking person has said about the shortfalls of the pledge. so to that extent I think HellRaisingHoosier has a valid critique.

I want to send flowers to the widow. Anybody have an address?

TheBigJerk: Gergesa: Wait...if we raise taxes how do we know tax money won't be used for abortions and to encourage gay sex while listening to music from Communist Russia under the stern atheist gaze of a Stalin painting?

Because Russian music, like Russian novels, is a known boner-killer.



Uh huh... totally....

Grover's dad (i) named him Grover, and (ii) stole his food to teach him about taxes. That he grew up to be a crank and a maladjusted weirdo is not surprising. That he has tremendous sway over the operation of our government is a tragedy.

ps69: Grover's dad (i) named him Grover, and (ii) stole his food to teach him about taxes. That he grew up to be a crank and a maladjusted weirdo is not surprising. That he has tremendous sway over the operation of our government is a tragedy.

I say we thrash both of them, then. If Grover's father is no longer with us, then dig him up and thrash him anyway.

Seriously, if there is anyone in the country in more desperate need of a steel-toed boot to the cock than Grover Norquist, I'm yet to see him.