We’ve been here before: From Norquist to Torquemada to Brambleberry: Pathologies of tax “reform.”
Reading this, I find myself wondering: Does our local Democratic Party possess some variety of opinion on this topic — you know, something mildly principled, or perhaps even a platform plank?
(A hush descends. Ted Heavrin coughs ominously. Somewhere, a dog barks)
What was that?
Muffled gurgling sounds?
Um, well … right. Carry on, Frank. Please, carry on.
Is Grover Finally Over?, by Frank Bruni (New York Times)
… Someday someone will write a dark history — a farce, really — of how (Norquist) managed to bring nearly all of the Republican Party to heel, compelling legislator upon legislator to lash themselves to his no-new-taxes pledge. Until then we’ll have to content ourselves with his misfortune over the last few days. No sooner had a nation digested its turkey than his goose began to be cooked. The spreading rebellion in the Republican ranks was manifest on the post-Thanksgiving Sunday talk shows.
