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"Four Big-Name Republicans Back off Norquist Pledge."
Posted: Nov 26, 2012
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From the Washington Post:
"Four big-name Republicans have broken with Grover Norquist in recent days, saying they won’t be bound by their Norquist-sponsored pledges to oppose any and all tax increases.
The moves by Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Saxby Chambliss (Ga.) and Rep. Peter King (N.Y.) represent the opening steps of a delicate dance for the GOP — and one that could come to define the just-begun talks over the looming “fiscal cliff.”
The question from here is whether this represents a simple trial balloon or the beginning of a movement in which a large segment of the GOP embraces a tax increase as an unhappy reality.
If that were to occur, it would both mark a significant shift in party orthodoxy and also threaten to make the tea party primaries of 2010 and 2012 seem tame."
"This is a Republican Party, after all, whose presidential candidates all stood on a debate stage last year and said that they would reject a deal that includes $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases."
Rest of the article at link below.
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figures... - noonypoo
[ In Reply To ..]so what else is new...lies to get elected, then the old bait and switch policy. wonder who paid 'em off this time. sigh.
Those old policies weren't working, got us in a lot of trouble, - Noonypoo. They just ran their course.
[ In Reply To ..]Actually, this is now the undoing of corruption since they were serving the interests of their backers, not the people's as a whole, by knocking their backers' taxes down.
Disheartening, to say the least - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I won't even answer GOP phone calls anymore. They've let me down. Still, they're the lesser of two evils.
This wasn't meant to be a disheartening post. When you - have bills to pay you should pay them, right? nm
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Bingo! Oh - tell that to Big Govt. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]They have big bills to pay, they should pay them, right? But keep right on spending, right? Raises taxes, keep on spending.
Not "they," but rather "us." - nm
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were you asleep at the turn of the century? - sm
[ In Reply To ..]do you not understand that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not financed? Oh right. Just say anything.
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