What person in politics/pop culture who's mentioned every day on DU...

[dolo amber]

do you know nothing about?

I have no idea who Grover Norquist is. :shrug:

[Dave Reynolds]

1. Ed Schultz for me,

I have no clue, or money to buy one.

[Zuni]

10. wasn't he in Reagan's cabinet?

[Dave Reynolds]

11. I dunno,

and I'm just too damn lazy to google him.

I am lacking curiosity of Ed.

[Catch22Dem]

2. This George W. Bush person

Who the fuck is he and why does everyone talk about him so much?

[fishnfla]

3. people keep talking about this *dolo* chick

I dont get the whole thing

Grover Norquist= GOP moneybagger

[dolo amber]

4. I think this "dolo" you speak of

is just a collective haluciniation. :D

Yeah, right after I typed that, I Googled Norquist...I read about 4 lines and :boring:.

GOP assbag. Check. :hi: ;)

[BrklynLiberal]

5. a pic and short bio of slimeball Norquist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist
Norquist grew up in Weston, Massachusetts. Although he is best known as the head of Americans for Tax Reform, his introduction to conservative politics was rooted in the anti-Soviet rhetoric of the Cold War. "I was actually a foreign-policy conservative first," he told an interviewer in 1998. His political leanings were cemented at the age of eleven by reading anti-Communist tracts such as Masters of Deceit by J. Edgar Hoover and Witness by Whittaker Chambers.<5> (http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1571/n3_v14/20174381/p1/article.jhtml) He received a B.A. from Harvard College, which he attended from 1974 to 1978, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1979–1981).<6> (http://watch.pair.com/database2.html)

After leaving graduate school, Norquist became executive director of both the National Taxpayers Union and the national College Republicans organization, holding both positions until 1983. He founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985. In 1994 he worked with Newt Gingrich and the Heritage Foundation to draft the Contract with America.

Norquist has also served as an economic advisor to Angola UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi and was once registered with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent of Angola.<7> (http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/fara2nd97/COUNTRY/ANGOLA.HTM#5061)

Norquist has also been accused of using his various organizations to launder political money for a number of like-minded individuals and groups. See, for example, the scandal involving Oregon's Bill Sizemore (http://www.americanpolitics.com/20021209Koop.html), whose political organizations were shut down by a judge after a jury agreed they had engaged in racketeering, in part due to evidence of a money-laundering scheme involving Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform.

Norquist is reportedly an admirer of Vladimir Lenin, and David Brock's Blinded by the Right stated that Norquist had a portrait of Lenin on his living-room wall.

[dolo amber]

6. I bet he's a blast at parties

:headbang:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. This "Clinton" guy everyone mentions constantly

:shrug:

[tyedyeto]

8. Let's see...

first it was Chandra, then Lacey, then Terri, then the Runaway Bride and MJ topped it off.

[Zuni]

9. Norquist is a major supply side proponent

an economic quack, big in GOP think tank circles

[sasquatch]

12. For me it's "Non-Sepuitur"

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Skinner.

Who the fuck is that anyway?


This guy:



Or this guy:




Really, I'd like to know.