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Old 02-21-2012, 11:54 AM   #1556
Lamplighter
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Grover Norquist controls the $ for all Republican re-election campaigns,
and for Republicans, re-election it is more important than anything.
His interview below has confirmed for me how the Republican hierarchy
views and actually intends to control the Presidency.

Thoughts about differences between Republican and Democratic presidents
first occurred to me when Ronald Regan slept through his term with a nice smile and movie-star personality.
George H.W.Bush was a single term President because he did not toe the Republican line on taxes.
But George W. Bush was exactly what the Republican hieracrchy wanted
... dumb but a "nice guy" who stayed in tow of Cheney and Rove.

Surprisingly, Norquist inadvertently complimented Obama, saying:
Quote:
if Obama had “wanted to govern when he had 59 [or] 60 senators and
a solid majority in the House, that’s the time to have done whatever he thought was useful
and he did” a few of those things.
For instance, Norquist noted, the president pushed through Congress the health-care bill,
the Dodd-Frank banking bill, and the stimulus package.

Obama “did all those things,” Norquist said. “The things on his list of things to do, he did;
everything he talks about now is that which he didn’t do when he could have” done it,
given solid Democratic legislative majorities during the first two years of the Administration.
Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner
Richard Sincere
2/20/12

Grover Norquist surveys the 2012 political and legislative landscape
Quote:
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, is a prominent conservative activist.
He informally heads up what is known as the “Leave Us Alone Coalition” and
works behind the scenes to promote conservative ideas in government.<snip>

Norquist pointed out that Obama’s State of the Union Address in January
“was a list of things he says he wanted to do,” but, he said,
Obama “was president for two years with a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate
[and] he didn’t do any of those things.”

Rather than the State of the Union being “a list of things he considers high priorities,” it is,
Norquist explained, “a list of things he thinks it will be clever to talk about in his reelection campaign.
It’s not a list of things he actually wants to do” because otherwise “he would have done them.”<snip>

Looking forward to the presidential election, Norquist predicted that
the Republicans are going to nominate a candidate “whose job will be,
if he gets elected, to sign the bills that Boehner and McConnell send him.”<snip>

As a result of these political conditions, Norquist reiterated,
“we should have a Republican House and Senate in 2013.
The big fight now is [to] pick a Republican to get across the finish line
and all we need him to do is sign the bills.”

Norquist emphasized that regardless of the Republican presidential nominee,
if he wins the election, he will need the cooperation – and the leadership –
of Congress to get any of his initiatives passed into law.<snip>

Using blunt language, he said that
“what we need is a Republican president to do what Obama did:
get his butt elected and then sit there and look pretty and read the Teleprompter.”
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