Norquist Threatens Impeachment If Obama Does Not Extend Bush Tax Cuts
Seriously, these people are nuts:
[Grover] Norquist is now mapping out how he can ensure further anti-tax victories by securing Republican majorities. In an interview with the National Journal, he mused that a GOP mandate would obviously enact an extension of the Bush tax cuts, work to maintain a repatriation holiday for corporate profits, and even pass House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) plan that jeopardizes Medicare. But when asked what Republicans should do if faced with a Democratic majority that won’t keep the tax cuts, Norquist had a simple answer: “impeach” Obama.
NJ: What if the Democrats still have control? What’s your scenario then?
NORQUIST: Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach. The last year, he’s gone into this huddle where he does everything by executive order. He’s made no effort to work with Congress.
The Republican Party is being ruled by clowns and idiots, to put it mildly. But even with the Joe Walshes and Dana Rohrabachers, there's no way that the Republicans will go down this route. Impeaching over letting tax holiday they voted for expire? Getouttahere, Grover. You may think you rule Washington, but that's just delusional.
Mr. Norquist needs a civics lesson. The House "impeaches", not the Senate. If the House doesn't "impeach" the President, then no matter who controls it, the Senate never gets a chance to "convict" the President. Plain and simple.
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Exactly. This is one of the reasons why it is not wise to let clowns run the circus.
You'd think a man who the GOP takes so much "advice" from, would know something about the procedures for impeaching the POTUS. Was he living in a cave when Clinton was in the Oval Office?
What an idiot!!
Second, KEEP power.
Good luck Grover. With the candidates your precious republicans have lined up, and their records of lies and deceptions, you will lose the House too. Then what?
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
little miscreant should be kept in a cage. The Repubs have some losers, but his guy really thinks he rules the world because the arrogant Republicans continue to allow it. I wonder at what point they will realize he is making them look like a bunch of Eunuchs.
The good life is a day at the beach.
I still think anyone who signs his pledge (no matter how much he denies it's "his" pledge) should be brought up on charges of treason.
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send an email to http://www.whitehouse.gov and asked how those in congress could get away with pledging to TWO different things...
I always figured when they pledged an OATH to the Constitution, it was the only one they could pledge to...
but they shouldn't be allowed to 'pledge' to a man who has no power other than obviously scaring the bejesus out of everyone because they want to retain their seats....
One or the other...and if they want to pledge to Norquist they should be FORCED to resign their seat in Congress....
never heard anything back, though
The stupid repubics in Congress have their collective tongues lodged up Grover's ample butt. Of course they'll do exactly what he commands. Congressional repubics as a group are unable to think for themselves.
Eeegh... at this point, I gotta be honest, I don't really even care. We already look like clowns of the earth to the rest of the world, the Republicans just block everything anyways. Why not go full-throttle. Why stop there. Just say you'll put any Democrat in prison for treason who thinks the tax rate should be raised.. uh, what is it... 4%?
Keep in mind, choosing between someone who has been right all along, and Grover Norquist, any MSM platform will choose Norquist.
Except most of the rest of the world don't look much better if you think about it.
I hope this Parasite of Privilege is found floating face down in his bath tub some day.
The perfect face for everything conservative:
Fat, gluttonous, rapacious, pasty faced doughy pantload, unconscionable sociopath with psychotic personality disorder - who thinks paying some taxes on his trust fund, is far more heinous than letting millions starve in the street.
What a loathsome pig!
I would love to send this traitorous bastard back to 1790 France in a time machine. See if taxes is his biggest worry then?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
I would get upset at this guy, but it's the fault of the media and the idiot right half of the country who is letting this guy run the show (seriously National Journal, couldn't you call him out on the impeachment line?). A lot of the millions starving on the street support what this guy is pushing. They've been fooled into thinking that they're one of the privileged few.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Norquist advises a group of House
Republicans Thursday that a failure to
extend the payroll tax cut should not be
viewed as raising taxes.
@HouseInSession
Billy House
grover, you sniveling hypocrite
I think Grover is going to be in for a big surprise come this November.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
You'd think so but given the American electorate ... can't be sure of anything.
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Proven track record, after all.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Do they have Lewinsky, Starr and Tripp waiting on the sidelines?
Is there a word for 'beyond arrogance' besides 'beyond arro'--wait. I figured it out. It's 'sociopathic.'
me-oww!
The inspiration for Jan Brewer's hairdo.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Even Lewinsky was not 'serious grounds' for impeachment and allowing tax cuts to expire is so outlandish as 'grounds' that people have GOT to start laughing in this guy's face when they interview him.
MyMy
just making the first cuppa, and the word somehow got shoved in there. And that guy is a freaking pig. I forgot to say that, and offer an apology to pigs after.
me-oww!
If you have people in Congress who take things like precedent, the constitution, basic decency and fair play, etc. seriously then yes. That's pretty much been the case for most of our history even up through the Nixon and Reagan years. But now its not and unfortunately the founders assumed it would be the case. The constitution is written so that "high crimes and misdemeanors" can be pretty much whatever the people in congress want it to mean. So in theory if they have the votes they could impeach. There is no higher authority that can over-rule them. That's why they could impeach Clinton for lying about a BJ, hardly something that any legal scholar would consider to be what the founders had in mind as an impeachable offense.
Either the Republicans are suffering a mass delusion with Grover the delusioner in charge or he really does have their nutsacks in some sharp pincers. The cognitive dissonance is breathtaking. Why doesn't someone in the MSM just ask him where he derives his perceived power, which the media only enables by treating him as a serious person. He can say "There’s no point in spending any time getting too worked up on imaginary conversations about imaginary things" and in the same interview talk about impeaching a president as a political manuever.
Nicole must have seen Real Time With Bill Maher this week. Rohrabacher is one of the dumbest people i have seen. How do these idiots get elected?
Norquist is a real asshole. Remember he was on the same team as Abramoff and tony Perkins. I don't know if I saw him face to face if i could hold back from smacking him.
Bigger idiots vote for them.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
Sure but this Rohrabacher freak is really really really stupid. Seeing him on Real Time was an eye opener. I think he was wearing puka shells.You would think that the mega rich joker who elected him would find somebody at least a little smarter.
because they were glistening...looked like diamonds to me. Maybe his boyfriend gave them to him.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Why on earth would they want to elect somebody smarter? A smart person might start to ask questions, or even think for themselves. Better to elect the first simpleton who can repeat "GAWD GHEYZ GUNZ" without having it written on his hand...
The first letter says it all, esp. in OC.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
By even dumber voters, who buy His lines, Hook, Line and Sinker...
I do think that pretty much all of the GOP/TeaParty are useless ass-holes, but I must give kudos to one of them old Tom Coburn has said that Grover can stick it in his ear.
It gets worse than that.
The Republican Party is being ruled by clowns and idiots, who were put in power by clowns and idiots, to rule over clowns and idiots, who do little to remove these clowns and idiots.
Oh, boy. I'm getting dizzy.
Since when is letting tax cuts for the 1% equate to high crimes and misdemeanors?
Where the he'll was Norquist's outrage and threats of impeachment when Reagan
raised taxes 11 times?
Go get a real job Norquist.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
He's never had a real job---just sucks off the government teat by being supported by the Republican Congressional idiots who meekly sign his stupid pledge.
Isn't there some way this carnival barker can be kicked out or jailed for trying to control the Congress while unelected?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Beat me to it.
Allowing a tax cut to lapse qualifies as a "high crime or misdemeanor" in Republican Land.
I'd love to hear them try to make that case before the election.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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That this bullshitters money talks"
All the Repugs salaried by him have SOLD THEIR SOULS.
On what charge???
"He’s made no effort to work with Congress."
Obama has made every effort to work with Congress, it is Congress that has refused to work with Obama.
Reality has no effect on Republicans.
...he means, "Obama hasn't totally caved to the GOP on every point of every issue before him."
Norquist is really expelling some methane with this one , he must have been backed up .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Does he think having a 3/8" stubble is a slimming look? Maybe, he just thinks he's spitting image Sonny Crockett who was big when Grover was late 20s, early 30s. Maybe that one time he got laid, came with a little help from the Miami Device, and he just can't leave that era. Saint ronnie was pres too.
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i think i need a new look
damn, i have a pair of socks somewhere...
I didn't know that Illinois was the name of a Chinese province...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
STFU Norquist. We didn't elect you. Now crawl back in your hole and don't come out till the rapture.
Asshole.
..guess when the filthy rich are suddenly confronted with the prospect of the government they have purchased not living up to its promise to destroy the country so said filthy rich can gain even more mammon, their answer is to trot out their favorite anti-tax puppet, who is more than willing to run impeachment smack in their behalf.
Everybody should be clear on this: The people who pull the strings to the Norquist puppet want much more than impeachment.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
Bring it on, fatboy. By this time next year, you'll be a shrinking hemorrhoid on the ass of America.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
What did they ever do to you?Comparing them to such a vile man,shame on you! lol.
We kept an eye on our kids..creepy.
Wow, pretty soon you guys will be able to whup ass on the Presbyterians in church league junior football.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
We're all in our 30's and fat..i think the Presbyterians can take us,lol.Old football injuries,you know..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Ta...
i want to know if this is a non-profit, i want to know what the criteria is to have a 501c3 or whatever, i want norquist impeached, i want his sham org. disbanded. ATR is no more working for the public good than the man in the moon.
jesus fucking christ, i'm going to the park.
Bring it on, you arrogant sociopath and if you ever wanted to know what Napoleon felt like at Waterloo, you will find out. But true to your blowhard philosophy, I bet you don't have the balls to follow through because we know how you imbecilic bullies roll. You are just another fucking coward with an attitude problem.
I's way past time that somebody put an end to your bizarre and psychotic ramblings for good. So go drown yourself in your bathtub filled with the sewage of your lies and deception. You are a dangerous and malignant tumor in the body of our politics.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
A most excellent rant sir.
a dangerous and malignant tumor in the body of our politics.
Hoo baby, gotta write that one down!!
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Good post, indeed.
I coined a new phrase when visiting friends this weekend. I told them to beware of the "cancer of conservatism."
They really liked it.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
and not one word wasted.
me-oww!
No need for me to comment. You said it.
far left loon >.<
but....way to go! couldn't rant any better, well maybe just a small rant, a dumbass like that worthless piece of garbage grover needs to face the reality of occupy and get his fat ass kicked back into the stone age he wishes our country used to be. Not so good a rant but...anyway PEACE
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They wouldn't state in the articles of impeachment that it was a high crime/misdemeanor for President Obama not to extend the Bush tax breaks - they'd impeach him for, say, making a recess appointment despite the pro-forma sessions that the Republican House forced on the Senate, or for Solyndra, or some other invented scandal.
Pro forma sessions are not legal as they do not constitute a Quorum... Their just 1 senator, big whoop...
It would be tough to find a better example of the republican party's rule-or-ruin philosophy than this threat by Norquist. An eager willingness to institute impeachment proceedings against a sitting president on ginned-up charges in order to achieve otherwise unattainable goals is tantamount to plotting the overthrow of the government of the United States.
See US Election 2000 and 2004.
And Obama wants to play nice and cooperate with these psychopaths. He hasn't a clue what they would do.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is not grounds for impeachment, but failing to lick the asses of our ruling minority is. Right.
Keep Grover talking. He is advocating extremist rule by plutocrats. The more he talks the more he sounds over the cliff except for the interests of the extremely wealthy and the more disparaging he is toward the interests of the 99%. Even in an unchallenging environment like Fox News he puts out what can be embarassingly delusional quotes that can be used against his political cause. Love to see him pushed by Maddow, Hayes, Olberman, O'Donnell, etc. if/when they get the chance.
And how does Norquist think Obama will retaliate? Here's one very popular thing he could do, turn Bush, Cheney, Powell and Rice over to the International Court for war crimes. There's a good start. Then arrest all the Republicans that were involved in the torture of helpless prisoners and send them to The Hague also. Round two. Now what you got Chickenhawk?
What a psychopathic piece of shit...someone ought to take this guy out.
Just 'Cos You Got the Power...THAT DON'T MEAN YOU GOT THE RIGHT!
Ick. He'd probably want to kiss you goodnight.
...And with that rough-trade bottom "beard" thing he's got going on, even that would be too far.
At first, I thought it meant as a violent deal. Now I see, he was hoping for Grover to have a mandate.
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Grover Norquist needs to be impeached as an American. We need to send him to Somalia, where he can reap the benefits of "no taxes" and "government drowned in the bathtub".
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Amen
POS....really Griver? You won't have the votes. Since when did this douch bag become the spokesperson for the right? ohhhhh....thats right when the GOP sold their sole to this creatin.
These comments he's made, reeks of narcissism. Clearly the ...man....thinks he has enough power to influence congress critters and senate ....what evers.
amazing. this guy has some serious issues. he started this crusade of his in high school?
I'll bet when he left high school he still hadn't gotten laid yet.
I wonder how Jack Abramoff feels about old Grover?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
This man is a pig. He is stupid like most conservatives are stupid.
truth seekers and truth tellers put love of country over love of party
Grover you may have just lost the remaining sane people who mistakenly thought you had some semblance of sanity.
Soon Norquist will be exposed for the monster he is, just as the the 'Gorgan' that led the children was exposed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6sWZkx-AXo&fe...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
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"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Norquist = 1 Man
The Voters = Millions
For Congress to kiss the feet of this nobody and give the finger to the people who elected them is political suicide...and yet another reason to build a third and fourth party.
NOBODY 2012
How come it isn't treasonous that Grover even asks and then gets the Repugs to sign his pledge? If they turn on the pledge , Grover targets them for extinction.. Doesn't his pledge violate the Oath of Allegiance? "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.[1]" Or maybe the Grover Pledge violates one of the Ten Commandments since Grover is clearly a false god whom anyone in their right mind wouldn't support. I think that we should charge this evil dwarf with treason and try him. He is a true homegrown terrorist!
I wonder who made the car, that drove on the street to his office. Does he think this is in a vacuum? Roads schools health care, a whole array of development has been encouraged by the government. He is the classic BSer by acting as though he has all theses benefits by himself and should not help the system. I am sure that he uses roads, health care defense etc. But is unable to acknowledge their use.
As far as taxes his crowd ( draft dogers Bush and Cheney also ) were cutting taxes during wars. I never heard of this. Whenever you bring this up the Republican INc. Response is " they do not discus facts". similar to nOrquist and his bubble.
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