funny how republicans started crying that the numbers are cooked the info has been monkeyed with, bet they all had a goodlaugh at the buzz statement.
The Republicans have been victims of Stockholm Syndrome; held captive by the grizzly-chinned anti-tax zealot, Grover Norquist, for so long – and with such seductive dictates – that they’ve lost all sense of their emotional imprisonment to actually embrace the man who’s been their captor.
Until now.In the current climate of political upheaval, at a time when the GOP has lost their finger-on-the-pulse of the electorate; in an economic era when wiser minds will survive only if they shuck off old thinking, Grover Norquist has become…old thinking.
their pledge of allegiane to him was a shameful middle finger in the face of "we the people". tax has become with their help a four letter word not spoken in undereducated areas. T-Party has a problem with history they ended up doing to "we the people" they claimed to br freeing themselves of, with a vengeance we all know how that worked out.
In a surprise move this past week, Saxby Chambliss, the Republican Senator from Georgia long known as one of the fiercest champions of the Norquist anti-tax pledge and a deep conservative in a red-red state, has stepped forward to signal his break with Norquist.
Speaking to Kenny Burgamy at 13 WMAZ TV in Georgia, Chambliss was frank in his new assessment of the situation:
“I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge,” Chambliss says. ”If we do it his way then we’ll continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that.”
Now Chambliss says he wants to do what it takes to right the U.S. fiscal ship, even if that means findings ways to raise revenue, which Norquist strongly opposes.
Does Chambliss think Norquist will hold the anti-tax pledge against him during his next re-election bid in 2014? Yes.
“But I don’t worry about that because I care too much about my country. I care a lot more about it than I do Grover Norquist,” Chambliss says
that is the change that republicans need to engage in not the lip service they are spitting out now.
