Norquist admits it: Repig dominance is about payback

[EstimatedProphet]

Borrowed from another post by DUer Tiptoe:

The strategy for achieving the goals of these wings of the current Republicans in charge is also radical. They want to effectively abolish the two party system. They are in fact well on the way to accomplishing that. Here is Grover Norquist again, one of the most powerful of the power brokers in a powerful party:
“One of the steps for getting there is a permanent Republican government, in the sense of fifty-five Republican senators and a thirty-vote margin in the House and a Republican President for twenty years in a row. That’s when you can do to the left what the left did to us in the thirties and the forties.”

Grover Norquist, on how to accomplish the one-party rule

Norquist tips his hat here on how he really sees the world. According to his worldview, the Democratic dominance of Congress and the Presidency wasn't really about political ideas, or representation of the people. No, it was because the Democratic party really wanted to stick it to the Repigs. Forget Teapot Dome, forget the Depression under a Repig president, forget the attempted coup stymied by Gen Butler - it was all about how the Democrats tried to make a one-party state, so the Repigs are justified in trying to do so now. "We" did it to "them" so the Repigs should be able to do it too.

Spoiled, self-absorbed, vain, narcissistic prick Norquist. He can't even see US history outside the filter of thinking he deserves to be sucked up to.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Sorry fellow, that Grover chap

A child will use "but the other guy did it" as an excuse for bad behavior, but adults are supposed to know better. What makes it worse is that he distorted history to even come up with the excuse.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. that is really creepy

I think I would lose my mind in that kind of government. Although, with the DLC maybe they don't even need GOP majorities. One of the freaks Bush tried to stick in as a federal judge, called the New Deal a successful socialist revolution that must be destroyed.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. It pissess me off no end

Norquist is actually trying to state that the New Deal and the drive during WWII is nothing more than about trying to keep Republicans out of power. What a complete asshole!

[Lasher]

3. Typical right winger

Parinoid to the bone, everything is everybody else's fault, everything is about them. Childish people with lots of money.

[billbuckhead]

6. Grover is another reichwing kook on the board of the National Rifle Asses

Most of these people are still trying to fight the civil war let alone the New Deal.

[Nikki Stone1]

5. We need to take this very seriously; this is the guy who wanted to "drown government in a bathtub"

Katrina showed that his ideas were coming to fruition

[DuaneBidoux]

7. "...we can do to the left what they did to us in the 30s and 40s (i.e., turn a 3rd world power into.

a 1st world power).

[EstimatedProphet]

8. Only it would be the reverse...