Speakeasy forum: ALL Republicans are NOT insane

Grover Norquist promised funding for Republican Candidates if they signed on to a pledge to oppose any increase in any and all taxes. I believe he started it during the Bush Administration, but it was definitely in place before 2008. It was one of the reasons for Republican intransigeance over the extension of the Bush tax cuts.

As I understand it governs whatever Grover in his Garbage Pail believes is a tax at the Federal level, which is just about anything, including taxes reduced for short term grace periods, like Bush's. It is directed at the American People who need to get Revenues back to where they were in the Clinton era or higher in order to dig the US out of the Bush deficit, and the Bush Wall Street Crash, or if you don't like that phrasing, the deficit and massive fiscal crisis which the President inherited from his pre-decessor. Need confirmation that it was Bush's fault? Bush passed the early parts of Tarp to try and keep some businesses solvent. I guess that means it's also against the Democratic Party who is charged with trying to rectify this ludicrous situation.

Rob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America

You don't remember the Reagan Recession? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_recession

"Long term effects of the recession contributed to the Latin American debt crisis, the savings and loan crisis in the United States, and a general adoption of neoliberal economic policies throughout the 1980s and 1990s."

The thing about conservatives is, they make up "history" as they go along in order to conform to how they believe things should be. In only sporadic instances does their "history" and reality coincide.

Rush Limbaugh was once at least insightful enough to know that his views didn't correspond to reality, that's why his book was called The Way Things Oughta Be. He's been blabbering so long however, that he has probably convinced himself that when Bush was President, things were perfect.

And no, I had nothing to do with writing that particular entry.

Rob

Reagan cut a deal with Bob Dole that for every dollar Reagan increased in taxes, the Dems would reduce spending by three dollars. The deal got made.....Reagan held up his end of the bargain and the Dems never cut spending. This is the same crap that's coming from BO and Reid right now......BO says 'we'll TALK about cutting next year' and Reid says "We already cut spending by $1 BILLION (pi.s in a bucket)"