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Why Grover Norquist and His Tax Pledge Will Survive the Fiscal Cliff
The diminutive ideologue says his no-new-taxes pledge is safe despite recent defections. Voter support, and his own surprising ability to bounce back, suggest...
How Grover Norquist’s Anti-Tax Pledge Is Broken
Norquist’s proposition is so sweeping that it cannot last in its current form.
In Defense of Grover Norquist, Idealistic Advocate of Bad Ideas
The new Grover-the-Terrible narrative is wrong in just about every way.
Reading While Eating for Dec. 2: Cliff Notes
In today's must-read links for your lunch break: A look at the developments—or lack thereof—in the fiscal cliff crisis.
It’s Time To Make Taxes Non-Toxic
As budget negotiations begin, citizens and leaders need to remember why taxes exist
Millionaires on Capitol Hill: Please Tax Me More!
WASHINGTON — Lobbyists for a day, a band of millionaires stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Congress to tax them more. They had a little trouble getting...
When Grover Says ‘Jump’…
Revealing anecdote from a Politico profile of Grover Norquist, who may be Washington’s most powerful conservative and is a towering obstacle to a Congressional...
The Power Broker
The story has become Washington legend. Grover Norquist, who apparently was a Republican when he was a zygote, came up with the idea for the no-tax pledge in...
Grover Norquist Hedges His Pledge, Gives GOP an Opening on Tax Increases
My dictionary defines “pledge” as a “solemn binding promise to do, give or refrain from doing something.” That same dictionary defines “position” as “a point of...
THE SECRET G.O.P. CAMPAIGN
Two weeks before the 1996 election, Democrat Bill Yellowtail was in a neck-and-neck race for Montana's only House seat when a TV ad swooped out of the Big Sky...
Articles from Around the Web
Internet sales tax embraced by no- tax Republicans
Anti-tax guru Grover Norquist is not happy about it, and the conservative Heritage Foundation is questioning the senators' conservative credentials. The Senate could vote as...
Heckler: Grover Norquist' scum'
'' We need more taxes,'' a man yelled at the Americans for Tax Reform chairman. ...
Kerry: State Department does not have its own Grover Norquist
In his first public address on foreign policy as secretary of state, John Kerry on Wednesday invoked anti-tax activist Grover Norquist ... '' Unfortunately, the State Department does not have our own Grover Norquist ...
Are Republicans Really Breaking with Grover Norquist? Grover Norquist is
Grover Norquist is... The Republican waffles, and the reporter's next call is to Norquist, the president of Americans of Tax Reform, to see whether a heresy has been committed...
