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Imagine That! Grover Norquist is Accusing Obama of Not Negotiating

Ezra Grant — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:48:18 +0000

Grover Norquist: “One of the challenges, of course, is people see this happening; they realize that the president has not been negotiating at all over the past three months,” Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, said on CNN’s “Starting Point.” “We learned days and weeks and months afterwards that they had non-meetings where […]

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Grover Norquist – Republicans Must Keep The President “On A Rather Short Leash”

Ezra Grant — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:06:15 +0000

Am I reading too much into this? Am I misrepresenting what Grover Norquist is really saying here? With all the blatant disrespect this particular president has endured from these Republicans, I’ll put Grover’s statement in the same category as that of the common Republican racist who shouted out “you lie” at the president while he […]

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Grover Norquist Is Okay With Allowing The Bush Tax Cuts To Expire

Ezra Grant — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:43:35 +0000

WITH A HANDFUL of exceptions, every Republican member of Congress has signed a pledge against increasing taxes. Would allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire as scheduled in 2012 violate this vow? We posed this question to Grover Norquist, its author and enforcer,and his answer was both surprising and encouraging: No. In other words, according to […]

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Yesterday’s Ronald Reagan Would Have Been A Blazin’ Liberal Today

Ezra Grant — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:55:29 +0000

You hear it all the time, Ronald Reagan would have done this and Ronald Reagan would have done that. And as you listen to today’s Republicans, you can’t help but wonder if they remember the same Reagan the rest of us do, the guy who actually raised taxes on the American people 11 times during […]

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President Obama To Introduce The “Buffett Rule” On Monday – Taxing The Rich

Ezra Grant — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:55:08 +0000

The New York Times is reporting a new measure by President Barack Obama called The Buffett Rule. According to the news report, President Obama will announce on Monday plans to tax millionaires at the same tax rate middle class Americans pay today. According to the Times Report, administration officials said the plan would require those […]

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Remember When McConnell Said The Rich Should Pay Their Taxes?

Ezra Grant — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:57:09 +0000

It was not that long ago, but when you look at what he said then and compare it with what he’s saying now in Washington, Mitch McConnell’s statement sounds like it came from a different dimension. The year was 1990, and Mitch McConnell – the present Senate Republican Minority Leader – was in his campaign […]

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Who Is The Puppet Master of Congressional Republicans?

Ezra Grant — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:42:57 +0000

His name is Grover Norquist – The author of a pledge that over 230 Republican House members, 41 Republican Senators and more than 1,100 state officeholders, from state representatives to governors have signed. The Pledge forces these members to promise that no matter what the circumstance, no matter how dire the situation, they will not raise taxes. […]

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