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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:37 PM
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Norquist pens letter to Bush regarding bailouts.»
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/19/norquist-letter/

Norquist pens letter to Bush regarding bailouts.»

Today, President Bush approved a $17.4 billion emergency loan to America’s ailing domestic auto industry. In response, right-wing ideologue and Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist — who once said he wants to reduce government “to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub” — penned a letter to Bush with a simple message, “Re: Bailouts“:



Of course, Norquist has never been fond of helping out American workers; he has professed a desire to “crush labor as a political entity” and ultimately “break unions.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:42 PM
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1. No surprise there.
Edited on Fri Dec-19-08 06:47 PM by BrklynLiberal
I hope I live long enough to see Norquist in Depends, drooling his gruel, and being cared for with the same attitude that he displays toward other people...particularly the less fortunate.

I was trying to see how Norquist grew up...and found this..which I never knew...
from Wikipedia. I can't believe he found a woman to marry him!

Personal

On April 2, 2005, Norquist married Kuwait-born Samah Alrayyes, who until then had been the director of the Islamic Free Market Institute. She is a CEO of her own communications firm and formerly a Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs at USAID.<22>

Religious beliefs

In contrast to his outspoken positions on political issues, when it comes to spiritual matters, Norquist prefers to play it closer to the vest. When asked by Washington, D.C.-based journalist Dave Sperry if he had converted to his wife's faith, Norquist brushed the question off as "too personal".<23>Because he is married to a Muslim woman, and because many interpretations of Islamic law require Muslim women to marry Muslim men, there is speculation that Norquist has secretly converted to Islam.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:52 PM
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6. I'll highlight the things in her bio that spell C.I.A.
On April 2, 2005, Norquist married Kuwait-born Samah Alrayyes, who until then had been the director of the Islamic Free Market Institute. She is a CEO of her own communications firm and formerly a Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs at USAID.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:43 PM
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2. Drag Norquist in the bathroom and swirl him down the toilet.
Only solution for that turd.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:45 PM
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3. To Grover from malaise
You fucking stupid capitalist fool - here are the facts.

Alan Greenspan said out loud, “I have found a flaw.” Congressman Henry Waxman pushed him, responding, “In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right; it was not working.” “Absolutely, precisely,” Greenspan said. The embrace by America—and much of the rest of the world—of this flawed economic philosophy made it inevitable that we would eventually arrive at the place we are today.

Now fuck off! Your model is dead.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/stiglitz200901?currentPage=1
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FarLeftRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:47 PM
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4. Hey norqusit, you prick...
go drown yourself... motherfucker.

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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 08:10 PM
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11. Well said.


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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:50 PM
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5. Who the hell does he think he is?
One person does not policy make.
He does not believe in "we the people".
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 08:01 PM
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9. No but his a funnel for a lot of political cash
and that speaks in that world.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:56 PM
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7. Grover Norquist, a NAZI, has never worked a day in his useless life.
If it weren't a likely scenario for us all, I'd find it extremely interesting to watch him
fend for himself after the collapse of the environment or political system.
Grover thinks he'll be one of those selected for preservation.



Unlike the GreatDepression, where people could live off the land -- it won't be man versus nature.

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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 06:58 PM
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8. We will shrink capitalism to the point where we can drown it in a bathtub
Payback will be a BIG bitch.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 08:03 PM
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10. !!!
:thumbsup:
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Sultana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 08:21 PM
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12. Bush can't read
:eyes:
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 08:35 PM
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13. That's because the money is not going through Norquist so that
he can skim the cream off the top like he did when he funneled money between Abramoff and the Indian tribes.
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