*note: sorry about the source..
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/norquist_obama/2009/02/27/186343.html<snip>
“They are pretty fired up,” Rep. Tom Price, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives, tells Newsmax. “I think that folks are seeing that the emperor has no clothes here in Washington, and that conservative, reasonable, American-principled policies are endangered by this administration and this Congress.”
Norquist, a board member of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC, notes that attendance at CPAC this year is almost 9,000 compared with 7,000 last year.
“We’re doing well as a movement, somewhat partially because we’re in opposition,” Norquist observes. “The other team is being awful. Their corruption is coming out, their greed is coming out, their taxes and spending are coming out. We no longer have to sit there and point and shout hysterically, They’ll do X! because they’re doing X. You can calmly say, Did you see they just did X?”
As a result, Norquist says, “We sound more reasonable, because we’re talking about facts, not fears and speculation about what they are doing. And frankly, everything they’re doing is worse than we could possibly have claimed previously with any credibility. If we’d said they were going to come up with a $3.6 trillion spending plan, people would have said, Oh that’s ridiculous.”
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“It’s a good time for the movement,” Norquist says “It’s a bad time for the country, but you can’t make progress and you can’t defeat the left’s ideas until they threaten to implement them. The real danger is that the other side does so much damage that it gets us into a Great Depression scenario.”
:crazy: