Grover Norquist is 'Field Marshal' of the Bush Plan after liberal groups

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

found this searching thru old stuff...



"We will hunt {these liberal groups} down one by one and extinguish their funding sources." {from Buying a Movement}.




do a search of Grover Norquist and look -

http://www.mediatransparency.org/people/grover_norquist.htm

excerpt -

Grover Norquist

Grover Norquist is one of the most connected members of the new right wing movement. He has close ties to the Republican Party, large U.S. business interests, and both the subsidized and regular U.S. media. He truly represents the nexus of politics, business and media.

As President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), Norquist helped the Heritage Foundation write the Republican's 1994 Contract With America. Shortly thereafter, Norquist led a right wing charge to "de-fund" the left, declaring that "We will hunt {these liberal groups} down one by one and extinguish their funding sources." {from Buying a Movement}.

ATR, which is a 501(c)(3) charity, describes itself as "a coalition of taxpayer groups, individuals and businesses opposed to higher taxes at both the federal and state levels. ATR organizes the TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose tax increases. "

ATR is funded by the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation.
Norquist was on the campaign staff on the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Republican Platform Committees, and formerly was Executive Director of the College Republicans.

He has also worked in policy positions for other Republicans, including serving on the National Commission Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service.
Adept at media appearances, Norquist writes a monthly politics column for the American Spectator magazine, and frequently speaks at regional and state think tanks of the movement.

He is also well-connected with large scale U.S. business interests, having served as economist and chief speech writer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (1983-1984).

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[burythehatchet]

1. He is a cancer on America

why and how he is allowed to do what he does is simply beyond me

[kwolf68]

2. Treason?

He is tampering with democracy. While Anthrax C can lambast Liberals as "treasonous" for simply having a different viewpoint, what is it when you want to subvert democracy?

[FarLeftRage]

3. He's a terrorist of the highest order

and should there ever be a revolution in this nation where we prevail, he will be the first one hung high from gallows for treason!

[Doctor Panacea]

4. My puzzlement

What puzzles me about people like Norquist is their motivation. They are completely irrational in their categorical hatred of any kind of social contract. They despise the idea that the powerful should be prohibited from trampling over the powerless. It is as if a certain part of the human mental hardware had been left out of the brains of these contemptible people.

[FarLeftRage]

5. Well, let's say that his own greed and his support of unbridled greed

has made him so blind to the very basic needs of assisting those less fortunate in our society.

Thus, he has no sense of social justice or even any comprehensions of fair play.

[demgrrrll]

6. Check out Atrios/Eschaton for the latest on Norquist. Unbelievable.

This is the transcript that he linked. <http://www.msnbc.com/news/984616.asp> and his blog is
<http://atrios.blogspot.com/> but neither of these seem to be linking to this site. Maybe someone can help me out, well worth a read! Scandal of the worst sort from Thursday's transcript with Loftus.
Scroll down a bit on Atrios friday postings the links seem to be working well now.

[kwolf68]

8. It's

Called Social Darwinism and is a belief generally held by all Fascists.

[Arianrhod]

7. It has long been the Republican plan

to defund all the social infrastructure, leaving the country with only two classes: a wealthy, powerful ruling elite; and an impoverished, enslaved majority. They are now very close to realizing this goal.

My question is: Why is the populace allowing this to happen? I think the primary reason is because they have deliberately been put to sleep through the consumer-society mentality the government has been pushing for a century. I remember reading a news article while visiting my father in August of 2001, in which * announced that "owning things is what America is all about". I've never forgotten that statement of his, not just because it's about the stupidest thing I'd ever heard in my life, but because it so succinctly summarized the Republican strategy: Keep people focused on the little luxuries they don't have, and they'll forget all about the needs that aren't being met. Heck, who cares about Medicare when the newest Sony Playstation is being offered for $10 off?

Both Krugman and Franken discuss this concept, albeit in variation, in their books. People are being fed alarming amounts of disinformation, but because that disinformation appeals to what they want to believe, they do believe it. Overcoming this kind of propaganda--propaganda that doesn't require any thinking but which satisfies base emotional needs that may not even be conscious--is very difficult to do.