The Norquist pledge - more sacred than the Pledge of Allegiance?

[Guns Guns Guns]

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They couldn’t agree on whether to extend payroll tax cuts everyone claimed to support.

Resolving the problem before the deadline, will of course be up to the very people who brought the country to the brink of default on its debt last summer and almost shut down the government.

The Bush tax cuts contributed 1.8 trillion dollars to the deficit over the past decade.





http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-20/could-congress-compromise-on-taxmageddon

 

[Rune]

What is this guy holding over their heads that they value his opinion more than that of their constituents?

 

[Don Quixote]

What is this guy holding over their heads that they value his opinion more than that of their constituents?

threats from the tea party to oppose them when they are up for reelection and to hell with the nation

 

[Jarod]

Those tax cuts, which President Obama extended, are a MAJOR part of the problem. You dont cut taxes while going into a war, its elementry but the mob wanted it so Bush gave it!

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

Those tax cuts, which President Obama extended, are a MAJOR part of the problem. You don't cut taxes while going into a war, its elementary, but the mob wanted it so Bush gave it!

The mob, or the 1%?

 

[anatta]

This is where i completely lose Repub "logic". It's obvious the top %'rs are aquiring more wealth. The Republican argument is keeping the Bush tax cuts for the rich, somehow creates more jobs.
So where are the jobs? We know the wealth gap is real, so HOW does increasing the wealth gap ( by extending the cuts) suddenly create jobs?
Only demand for labor creates jobs - even that is true of public sector jobs( though states have been hard pressed to keep workers.).

Obama drives me nut with his self perpetuating wars, and the destructin of Libya:
but Romney(like McCain before him) is a dangerous practitioner of "American Exceptionalism" - as is Obama. yikes. Momma they're all crazy now.

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

Grover Norquist will be on the hill next week talking to Republican members and their staff in a closed-door meeting...



http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/06/norquist-wants-gop-to-reaffirm-pledge-126294.html