Citizens Outraged about Katrina to Confront Norquist on His Home Turf

[Dover]

Citizens outraged about Katrina and a truck-based mobile billboard sponsored by Working Assets will show up outside the office of Bush administration advisor Grover Norquist as DC's top radical-right policy-makers arrive for their weekly strategy meeting.

The billboard image juxtaposes Norquist's well-known quote from a May 2001 NPR interview with an image of the flooded city of New Orleans. In the interview, Norquist stated: "My goal is to cut government...down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

The citizens' group is expected to include many young voters who will confront meeting attendees, asking them to take some responsibility for the nation's worst natural disaster. They will hold placards with slogans like "Make Levees, Not War" and "Small Government? Big Disaster."

"Hurricane Katrina is not only a national tragedy, it is also exhibit A of the devastating human consequences of the radical right's anti-government agenda," said Andrew Boyd, a campaign organizer with Working Assets. "By taking this action, we're saying Katrina was in large part a man-made disaster, and two of the men who made it were Grover Norquist and George W. Bush."

The billboard will be circling through DC the entire week, shadowing Norquist and visiting other political hot-spots.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=53702

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WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 8:45 a.m. sharp

WHERE: L & 20th Street N.W. (southeast corner), Washington, D.C.

[Richardo]

1. I so would like to be there.

:popcorn:

I really hope there's a hell so Norquist can rot there.

[Richardo]

6. My post from 9/1/2005:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2050407

Take it to the scumbag, people!

[phantom power]

2. I hope they hang Norquist around the GOPs neck, permanently.

Norquist is the soul of the neo-GOP, the public deserves to understand that, and all that it implies.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Are they bringing a bathtub in which they can drown him?

[DBoon]

9. can't

would be too big to legally carry on city streets without a moving permit

[ewagner]

4. Not likely to change Norquist's mind

but it will shine a bright light of publicity on the cockroach and maybe send him scurrying for cover.

[calimary]

30. Works for me!

No, it won't change his mind. He's sure he's "right." The ASSHOLE. All those deaths are on HIS hands, and on HIS soul (assuming he has one, that is).

That greedy, selfish cheapskate grover norquist can rot in the lowest level of HELL. ALONE. For ALL eternity. He's the poster boy for what's wrong with this country. Mr. "I, Me, Mine." Mr. IGMFU.

Go FUCK yourself, grover...

And the whores you rode in on.

[TomPainesBones]

5. Excellent! n/t

[UpInArms]

7. Grover Norquist is one of the slimiest pieces of

nasty rot that has ever crawled from the sewer to attempt to walk upright.

His agenda to destroy this country and his "hard work" to do so should get him a trial for treason.

[Carla in Ca]

31. When are they going to arrest him?

He and Ralph Reed laundered Tribe money. I'm waiting!

[Frederik]

48. And now the word

in Conservative circles is that he has converted to Islam! You could almost supect him of having conspired with Osama to destroy the US :-) He has certainly done a better job than Osama in that regard.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Who elected Grover Nordquist to anything?

[Helga Scow Stern]

10. Recommended! This is excellent.

[yorkiemommie1]

11. GOOD !!!

This slimeball hides too much. Shine a bright light on him, too !!

Shine a bright light on all the slimely slithering things that make up the * admins policies. Sprinkle the salt of truth on them and watch what happens.

[bostonbabs]

12. I wish every American knew Norquist as well as they

do Paris Hilton ...

[leftchick]

13. oh my! That is his weekly meet up with Media big wigs

to set the "WH message" for the TV viewers for the week.

[JaneGat]

14. Grover details Republican plan -- PBS interview

Grover details the Republican 50 year plan to drown the federal government, and talks about what the role of the federal government will be in the New United States, in this half-hour Fresh Air interview, PBS.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1452983

The host starts out by mentioning Paul Krugman's statement that the Bush administration will push the deficit so high it will be “forced” to dismantle the federal government.

The NUSA (NEW United States of America)

Federal government services will be limited to:
1.Defense.
2.Governmental state and local police with arrest powers.
3.Courts mostly to protect property rights.

The states:
The country will still be comprised of states. The states will become competitive. Citizens will be able to move to the states that offer the most goodies, (provided they are rich enough).

Grover’s most intriguing observation:
The government could cut back Defense to about 20% and still be able to run the planet.

[OzarkDem]

20. Founding Fathers had more government than that

Where do these idiots come up with this stuff and why aren't they in Iraq creating their own utopia instead of bothering us here?

[David Zephyr]

15. Here's the billborad!

Thanks Dover.

[kath]

16. Huzzah for Working Assets!! Switched to their long-distance service a

few months back and I'm loving it. Wish I'd done it years ago.

[bluedeminredstate]

24. I have them too!

Hubby wants to get the 3 cents a minute plan from MCI or Verizon, but Working Assets is only 7 cents a minute and I can call my Mom in Canada!
You can round up your bill to give to different progressive causes if you want and I always feel better doing that. It's a small thing, but supporting progressive causes is important, and if I can do it with my long distance then it's worth the few pennies more!
I wish more people used them, but they don't advertise - I got my solicitation through the mail, obviously b/c I'm on all the lefty lists.

:hi:

[Laelth]

35. Been with WALD for at least 10 years now.

It's one of those bills I feel good about paying.

All DU members should consider switching to WALD. I could use the Ben & Jerry's ice cream if anyone needs a sponsor.

:thumbsup:

-Laelth

[Mountainman]

17. What happened to that old time thing of running people out of town on a

rail? That would be good for Grover Norquist and George W. Bush.

[mcscajun]

18. Only *after* the tar and feathers have been properly applied.

THEN we put 'em on a rail. One each.

[Shakespeare]

19. I have been hoping somebody, ANYBODY would take it to Norquist.

He remains in the background, because the media conveniently ignores him--no matter that he's one of the foremost conservative powerbrokers in the country (not to mention just a downright despicable individual).

I think it's a marvelous idea to picket the shit out of him at his office or anywhere he goes to speak, meet or otherwise draw breath. This creep has no right to remain in the shadows.

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. They make you proud don't they?

[Old and In the Way]

22. In another time, Norquist would be considered a traitor.

Seeing that he's in the back pocket of Saudi Arabia....might he be working to do this country in?

Arrest him and throw his fat ass in jail.

[nashville_brook]

23. what a great action! bravo!

i've always wondered what the use was of those traveling billboards. this is great!

[mitchum]

25. I'm always amazed that Norquist walks around DC without bodyguards

[yurbud]

27. people should shower him with gifts of pies and...

over-ripened fruit.

Eventually, he will be arrested as a war criminal.

He admitted on camera to Greg Palast that he wrote the plan to privatize and sell off Iraq's oil.

[Judi Lynn]

49. There probably aren't so many people who would recognize him yet.......

AND, Democrats aren't known for assassinating figures of the opposition in order to get ahead. That seems to be a right-wing refuge. No doubt his face should be posted more often in order for him to reap the elaborate harvest of praise he so richly has earned from the American public when he passes through the streets!



Grover, in his tub.

[yurbud]

26. PHOTO: I had a similar idea for a poster, a bit more graphic

[DS1]

34. I took your idea, and made it a bit more 'postery'

if you will

[liberalhistorian]

37. OMG!

Oh, God, I think I'm gonna be sick. It makes me ill that this shit happens in this country, that would NEVER EVER have happened in fucking Florida.

Can you post that so that I can print it out and make a flyer or poster out of it? People need to wake the fuck up, and that'd be a good start, it's powerful beyond words.

[DS1]

38. I blew it up

but I didn't make the yellow text so it's a bit blurry, still, it'll do I suppose

put the g back up against the p in this link

http://www.dillingerinteractive.com/misc/postersize.jp g

[liberalhistorian]

50. Thanks!

I can't wait to shove this in the face of more than a few people I know who need to be woken the hell up.

[uncertainty1999]

40. It is just like the Demotivators series, for politics!

www.demotivators.com

[BrklynLiberal]

42. That is sooooooooo funny. Thanks for the link.

This one seems particularly appropriate for *

[yurbud]

44. that works for me. I'd be happy if grover ever saw that.

the other variation on this is Bush's famous "Err on the side of life" quote from the Schiavo demagogathon.

[Jacobin]

28. Excellent. Grover Norquist should be in jail

He is the 'brain' behind the neocon idiots and their insane policies

[goforit]

29. Fabulous..Absolutly fabulous!!!

[RandomKoolzip]

32. Good. Glad some on the left are addressing the REAL seat of power.

Norquist is a human tumor, malignant and mutated. His brand of conservatism needs to be excised like a tumor from the body politic before the body dies.

[struggle4progress]

33. "Drowning government in a bathtub" translated to "drowning poor folk ..

.. in the bayou" ...

[liberalhistorian]

36. Or "Operation Drown the Negroes" as

a liberal blogger so scathingly put it a couple of weeks ago.

[kestrel91316]

39. Hell, if they go to his home and fetch him out and string him up in his

front yard, I'M BUYIN' THE CHAMPAGNE!

[mitchum]

41. I'll be happy to chip in

[loudsue]

52. I'll build the pyre!!!

:woohoo::hi::toast::beer: IT'S PARTY TIME!!! :party::silly::smoke::applause:

[WhiteTara]

43. good work! Great activisim

I wish I could be there. The visual from that makes me laugh :rofl:

[rucky]

45. this is the #1 ASSHOLE we should be blaming

he literally made our government "small enough to drown..."

[zippy890]

46. kick - great idea n/t

[Frederik]

47. Make Levees Not War

An excellent slogan.

[paineinthearse]

51. Darn, I thought this was to be at Norquist's native home

Not his adopted home.

Rock on!

[loudsue]

53. Norquist and Donald Rumsfeld.......

Both detestable figures.

Henry Kissinger on Donald Rumsfeld, ca. 1985: "Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless person I've ever known."

:puke: Coming from Henry Kissinger..that's pretty damned scary.

:kick::kick::kick:

[JoFerret]

54. DROWN him in his bathtub

(metaphorically speaking of course.)