Grover Norquist - how devious can you get? | by GlennM
From the NYT Sunday magazine article on taxes:
Within Republican circles, Norquist's job is to organize other organizations, making sure the different branches of conservatism are moving in the same direction, at the same time, to the greatest extent possible. His particular genius is for persuading one organization to reach beyond its own agenda to help out another -- for getting, say, the cultural traditionalists at the Eagle Forum to join the business libertarians at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in opposing fuel-economy standards for automobiles by convincing the traditionalists that, as Norquist once explained to me, "it's backdoor family planning. You can't have nine kids in the little teeny cars. And what are you going to do when you go on a family vacation?"
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In the opening chapter of Garrison Keillor's "Homegrown Democrat", the book I'm reading now, there's a description of Grover that I've got to quote ---- "Bipartisanship is another term for date rape," says Grover Norquist, the Sid Vicious of the GOP. "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it to the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." The boy has Oedipal problems and government is his daddy.
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January 19, 2005 1:23 PM