Grover Norquist: GOP Will Keep Obama On 'Short Leash,' Leave Him To 'Blow Up Small Countries'
Source: Huffington Post
Grover Norquist expressed confidence on Thursday that Republican adherents to his rigid anti-tax hike platform would emerge victorious in upcoming budgetary scraps, joking that it would leave a bitter President Barack Obama to engage in a campaign of indiscriminately bombing "small countries" for his personal entertainment.
Speaking on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," Norquist argued that congressional Republicans had a number of weapons ready to wield against Obama and Democrats in order to ensure that there would be no spending increases or tax hikes.
Obama will be on a very short leash, fiscally speaking, over the next four years, Norquist said. He's not going to have any fun at all; he may just have to go blow up small countries he cant pronounce because it won't be any fun to be here, because he won't be able to spend the kind of cash he was hoping to.
Norquist said that Republicans would be willing to use the threat of the sequester -- large spending cuts paired with tax hikes scheduled to kick in if a deal to avert the fiscal cliff isn't met by the end of the year -- to leverage Democrats, whom he said were fearful of that possibility. Norquist also claimed that GOP lawmakers would utilize continuing resolutions, or temporary appropriations bills used in the absence of an official budget, in order to chip away at spending.
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Haywood Brothers
(19 posts)Can't help but think he's become increasingly irrelevant, desperate to get back into the spotlight.
DanM
(341 posts). . . have the ***** to let the sequester go through?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)I look forward to his smug, stupid face crying crocodile tears on TV as more and more Republicans realize that his "pledge" is bullshit.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)IF he wants to have a seat at the table he should run for something. Executive in charge of bagger arse wiping?
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)give a rat's ass what this unelected immature racist piece of human waste think? Why do GOP idiots and/or the media give a shit about this worthless powerless tiny dicked fuck?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)anyone "voting" for this pig shit.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I don't buy that the libertarian wing of the GOP - which is just about the entire group, no matter how they brand themselves, doesn't approve of Nixon's 'the government should be run like a business' and Reagan's 'government is evil' mantras.
Nordquist turned into the 'starve the beast' and 'government small enough to drown in a bathtub' agenda. Romney, Ryan, Boehner, Rand Paul, the Koches, Alan Greenspan and the rest of the crew are Randians. Nordquist has framed the message and been paid by the Koch brothers to advance their agenda. Just because Democrats think this stuff is crazy, destructive or stupid won't make them go away.
Alex Jones and Glenn Beck aremost modern Libertarians who want government to be shrunk so there is no Social Security (welfare moochers and statists who will have to bow to one world governance); no public schools (indoctrinating children into homosexuality and communism while becoming Muslim or atheist); and no police, fire or postal services (they are watching you and making out lists to kill you).
I hate to say it, but when you talk to these guys, Breitbart and Norquist is heroes. I've even run into those who believe the Koch brothers are out to save America. And they vote.
:rant;
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)but my point is NOBODY voted for this pig shit, therefore he has no actually power other than the media giving him a platform to spew his garbage. He's not even a pundit and Fat Ass with his own radio show, or a jackass like Beck or anyone at False Noise. How does this pathetic twat who's never outgrown his whiny 12-yhear-old persona have ANY credibility, and pull over anyone in the government enough to threaten them if they go against his self imposed dictatorship?
freshwest
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Media is owned by reactionary conservatives and they will only allow the voices they want us to hear and to have only their box of arguments to be considered in public policy.
They built up the Oliver Norths, John Boltons, Grover Nordquists and other criminals to national stature by installing them on think tanks and then tell the media to give them air time. They've invited Jack Abramoff (sic) the felon on the air again.
They've fawned over Rove, Coulter, Gingrich, Ryan, Palin and the rest of the gang, because that's what they want America to accept as mainstream and their acts are played as heroic and intelligent. They've ever put the criminal Tom Delay on DWTS and make that maniac look like everyday people...
Years ago these amoral scoundrels would have been jailed by an informed electorate. We've had the national conscience shredded and been taught to act like greed, sociopathic pigs.
Many of us have stood aside in horror but they are destroying the country and the world. And I've just come off of threads on the CT massacre so I'm not really able to discuss this well now.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)and CNN and the rest complete fuck-up on the identity of the killer. The media is dead to me. It actually was a while back when I got forced out of it, but I decided NEVER to go back. Not that they'd have me.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)...In production since 1966, it is one of the longest-running television programs in broadcast history. The 700 Club can be seen weekdays in 96 percent of U.S. television homes, and has an average daily audience of nearly 1 million viewers. It is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom (one male and one female) will host on any given day...
CBN Broadcasts currently reach over 100 nations in dozens of languages, and are viewed by more than 360 million people each year. CBN's primary strategy is to develop television shows produced by local staff in selected countries. Programs are culturally sensitive, relevant to the ethnic audience, and presented in their native language...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_700_Club#1980_to_the_present
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Broadcasting_Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Family_Channel
Changing The Family Channel Cable Network Plans To Expand Programming
The number of cable subscribers grew from 28 million in 1985 to 49.6 million in May 1990. The network, the nation's 10th largest cable operation in terms of viewership, is carried on cable systems available to 55 percent of all American homes.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-09-28/lifestyle/9009270340_1_broadcasting-network-pat-robertson-cable-network
In the 1990s as the GOP was taking over just about everything, it was said the program reached nearly 50 million American homes. It migrated to various networks, such as FOX, ABC and Disney. This is the block of voters that powers the GOP.
I just posted it and thought it would show just how much all of this is related. And Democrats who say both parties are the same, or won't vote, or whatever, are giving the power they want to turn this nation into and medieval nightmare.
newspeak
(4,847 posts)so they can inform their sycophants who to vote for (against their interests), who to blame (just not who pays their checks), and who to hate (all those poor people that don't look or act like them).
and we'll send your kids to the "right" schools to teach you who to vote for, who to blame and who to hate--who needs stinkin facts. yeah, those wealthy families sure want to help america and americans-so they should pay their taxes, since most get subsidies and lucrative contracts that "we the people" pay for and keep their money in the states. right guys? you want to make sure our infrastructure doesn't fall and the well being of all americans are one of your concerns, right?
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)minimal actual reporting, and zero investigative skills. That's our MSM!
Dakota Flint
(219 posts)A.) Ignorance, in that they cannot comprehend simply facts and cannot separate fact from fiction.
B.) Extreme laziness while being overpaid.
C.) Actively participating in a criminal conspiracy to thwart the will of the American people... A.K.A treason
or as I suspect........
D.) Some combination of all of the above.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)They do as they are told to do.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)I had a similar experience with someone over the past several years. Everything was peachy keen as long as everyone let her be the boss and said "yes" to everything she asked. Once the "Noes" started flooding in, she totally lost it and has gone through four attorneys (in eighteen months) as each realizes she's delusional and a threat to their ability to practice law if they continue to threaten people on her behalf. Grover is showing the same signs and symptoms as his imaginary world (where he is Emperor) crumbles.
At least some on the right are finally asking "Who the hell is Grover Norquist, and why are my Congersscritters listening to him?"
Orly Taitz?
DCKit
(18,541 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)denvine
(802 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)struggle4progress
(118,313 posts)DakotaLady
(246 posts)Vietnameravet
(1,085 posts)Just another example of the old saying "Pigs always squeal the loudest when you step on their feet!"
The entire Republican party is deranged!
Just pause and think for a second about the hate that must fill this man....and large sections of the entire worthless party!
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)never been elected to ANY office, any where, at any time, he sure has a big mouth.
Put your crazy ass ideas and policies on a ballot somewhere. Then we can talk. Until then STFU.
kiranon
(1,727 posts)Grover Norquist is todays Republican Party. See it now in all of its ugliness. The curtain has been drawn back and the true spirit of the Republicans is on display for all to see.
Cha
(297,378 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)by a sucker punch. Find out where he hangs out, follow him into the mens room and leave him laying on the floor with a fat lip. Then walk away as if nothing happened. That's seems to be the only thing these radical fascists understand.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)melody
(12,365 posts)daybranch
(1,309 posts)This statement exemplifies the stupidity of republicans as to what democrats are.
Shut the hell up!!!!!!!!!!!
Gawd....I SO hate this freak.
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)Harry Monroe
(2,935 posts)"Binders" full of blackmail, perhaps?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)How did he work behind the scenes to micro-manage our government without our knowing about him?
It is only recently that I've heard his name...say the last 8 years or so, but he's been pulling this a lot longer, hasn't he?
Something smells.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)mokawanis
(4,443 posts)kicking Republican ass. Grover Fuckface is the one who isn't going to have much fun over the next 4 years, watching his party wallow in the shit-pile they've created.
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)This guy is a total fucking dipshit and a announce.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)NOBODY!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)jmowreader
(50,561 posts)We deport anti-American maniacs every day. Norquist should be no different.
Finding a country that would take him is the hard part. Somalia would form a working government just to keep him out.
newspeak
(4,847 posts)"somalia would form a working government just to keep him out." Gee, maybe we should threaten somalia that we're sending grover and see what happens.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)Our government drowned in a bathtub in 1992 and we got rid of the pirates. Why has Allah forsaken us?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,072 posts)No one voted for this asshole. I hate his cartoonish voice.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Asshole.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)What the hell is going on over there?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Has this guy done anything to take the pork out of politics? No. How about a war on earmarks, enough to finance a small country?
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)durablend
(7,462 posts)To make him small enough to flush down the toilet