Renounce or Resign
I pledge allegiance to? a lobbyist!
Grover Norquist is being called the ?most powerful man in the United States? and a ?dark wizard? ? but he is neither a member of Congress nor has he ever run for public office.
He?s a lobbyist ? the author and promoter of the ?Taxpayer Protection Pledge? to never raise taxes of any kind, or to eliminate loopholes that would cause one?s tax bill to rise. Through the pledge, Norquist controls 279 votes in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, including those of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate Minority Leader.
On the surface, Norquist?s Taxpayer Protection Pledge sounds like a good thing. But, it is a bare-knuckle political strategy with protection-racket characteristics. Many members of Congress fear retaliation if they even suggest a tax increase in current deficit negotiations because Norquist isn?t interested in compromise regardless the consequences to the United States or its people.
Those who refuse to sign the pledge or backslide are subjected to primary election fights against well-funded opponents, backed by Norquist and his Super Pac multimillion-dollar budget.
?If they don?t sign the pledge, they?re toast,? Norquist said. ?But if they sign it and keep it, they win the primary. They win the general. They get to govern. And, I?ve helped make all this possible.?
Signers of the Taxpayer Protection pledge have also sworn an oath to serve the Constitution, and thus the American people and the United States Government.
Senators and Representatives pledge to ?support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.?
It is a breach of oath then, to also pledge an oath to a domestic enemy of the United States government whose stated purpose is not to ?abolish government, but to drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub,? because ?our goal is to inflict pain.?
President Eisenhower said, ?People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. There have to be compromises. ?The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.?
?We, the people? must come together and demand that anyone in office, having breached their Constitutional oath by also taking an oath to refuse cooperation must renounce the Grover Norquist Taxpayer Protection pledge and all others, save the oath of office or resign the office to which they have been elected.
He?s a lobbyist ? the author and promoter of the ?Taxpayer Protection Pledge? to never raise taxes of any kind, or to eliminate loopholes that would cause one?s tax bill to rise. Through the pledge, Norquist controls 279 votes in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, including those of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate Minority Leader.
On the surface, Norquist?s Taxpayer Protection Pledge sounds like a good thing. But, it is a bare-knuckle political strategy with protection-racket characteristics. Many members of Congress fear retaliation if they even suggest a tax increase in current deficit negotiations because Norquist isn?t interested in compromise regardless the consequences to the United States or its people.
Those who refuse to sign the pledge or backslide are subjected to primary election fights against well-funded opponents, backed by Norquist and his Super Pac multimillion-dollar budget.
?If they don?t sign the pledge, they?re toast,? Norquist said. ?But if they sign it and keep it, they win the primary. They win the general. They get to govern. And, I?ve helped make all this possible.?
Signers of the Taxpayer Protection pledge have also sworn an oath to serve the Constitution, and thus the American people and the United States Government.
Senators and Representatives pledge to ?support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.?
It is a breach of oath then, to also pledge an oath to a domestic enemy of the United States government whose stated purpose is not to ?abolish government, but to drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub,? because ?our goal is to inflict pain.?
President Eisenhower said, ?People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. There have to be compromises. ?The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.?
?We, the people? must come together and demand that anyone in office, having breached their Constitutional oath by also taking an oath to refuse cooperation must renounce the Grover Norquist Taxpayer Protection pledge and all others, save the oath of office or resign the office to which they have been elected.
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