Grover Norquist says the debt ceiling deal has his blessing. Norquist, who heads the powerful anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, tells Newsmax that congressional members who signed his group’s “pledge” promising never to vote for a tax increase can vote for this deal.
“The deal proved that we can cut spending without trading away tax hikes,” Norquist says.
He adds that the deal is no passing congressional fad, but a milestone in Capitol Hill thinking about spending and taxes.
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“The deal set a new precedent: Never again will the debt ceiling be raised without a similarly sized spending cut being attached,” he tells Newsmax.
The big loser in the deal?
Norquist declares unequivocally that Obama wins that title.
“Obama’s internal polling must scare the heck out of him,” Norquist says. “He caved on the key Republican demands: no tax hike, spending cuts equal to the debt ceiling increase.”
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The b ig losers are us Americans who are getting whacked from all sides!
Comment #1 beat me to it.
Also, to say that this is a defeat for Obama is to assume that his primary objective is the scoring of political points and being re-elected. I believe, however, that much as Obama would like those, they are secondary to protecting the interests of the corporate-military elite. They are the ones, after all, who were really behind his election. (Same for every president and nearly all other presidents and members of congress. Follow the money.) The Republicans are the “bad cops” who allow President Obama to play the role of the “good cop”, thereby fulfilling his gatekeeper position.
I would like to present the words of Independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont on this deficit-reduction deal. Spoken on the floor of the Senate back on July 20th, they are at least as relevant now:
I heard that sound byte on the daily program Democracy Now!, whose web site I copied the transcript from
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/21/headlines/sanders_blasts_entitlement_cuts_tax_cuts_in_deficit_talks
From the news as well as web searches I did on Google, it did not appear as if these words of truth-to-power were covered by any of the mainstream (corporate) media outlets. Not even NPR or PBS (both corporate- lite).
Here is a piece by Senator Sanders in which he elaborates on his position:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/congratulations-sen-cobur_b_905230.html?view=print
And here is a YouTube video, posted to Sen. Sanders’ web site yesterday (Aug. 1):
“Immoral, Grotesque, Unfair”: Senator Sanders Announces That he Will Vote ‘No’ on the Deficit-Reduction Plan:
http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=b228667f-24ad-463b-a216-b027ab01cdeb
Norquist is owned by the Arabs