LAT: Grover Norquist supports CA Govt shutdown

[DBoon]

With the state government and its elected leadership near paralysis, a small group of Republican senators has successfully stymied efforts by Democrats, fellow Republicans in the Assembly and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to plug the state's giant deficit with a plan that includes $14.4 billion in taxes, along with deep program cuts and limits on future spending.

Their near-sacred opposition to taxes ran headlong into a deficit so large that even some within their ranks say it cannot be dealt with by trimming fat from government alone. Still, these true believers have refused to submit, energized -- and intimidated, some say -- by national conservative figures, local talk radio hosts and bloggers.

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Much has also been made of the anti-tax pledge circulated by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform in Washington. Most of the Republicans in the Legislature have signed it.

Norquist, reached by telephone, compared California Democrats who are upset that Republicans won't authorize new taxes to "the alcoholic who complains someone won't keep buying them liquor."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-republicans19-2009feb19,0,3813815.story

I hope the 20,000 public employees faced with layoff know where it came from

[hobbit709]

1. I'd like to shut down Grover

And put him in a hole so deep they'll have to send his food down in pressurized containers.

[Kalyke]

6. Shut him down and make him small enough to drown in the bathtub.

(That's what he said he wanted to do to our government).

[Cerridwen]

2. "I hope the 20,000 public employees faced with layoff know where"...

he lives.

Sounds like it's long past time old grover hears directly from the people his "ideals" are impacting.

[Skidmore]

3. So Limbaugh isn't the head of the Republican party after all.

[bdamomma]

7. when will Newt put in his two cents?

repigs are our american taliban.

[Historic NY]

4. Does he live there? No, maybe someone should drown him in the BS he spews.

[gratuitous]

5. Of course Grover doesn't live in California

Which is why he doesn't give a hoot about whether it burns to the ground or not. But don't you even think about touching his welfare checks. Oops, I mean, well-earned fleecings from the flock.

[AnnieBW]

15. He lives in Virginia

Where they have similar problems, and I'll bet it's burning his sh*t up that Virginia turned blue!

[AlCzervik]

8. well it's good that we who live in California don't give a shit about what Mr. "Bi Partisanship is

like date rape" Norquist thinks.

[DBoon]

10. Sadly, the republican minority in the state legislature DOES care

about Norquist, Limbaugh, and other extremist talking heads.

[petronius]

9. I really hope the Ds show do some effective campaigning on this topic

in the next few cycles - this R willingness to lay people off into the worst economy of our generation (an to basically destroy CA) should be shouted from the rooftops. However, like a lot of places, I think CA is becoming spatially more polarized - so most Rs (and most Ds) are only accountable to people who think exactly like they do...

[DBoon]

11. I'd like an initiative to get rid of the 2/3 budget pass requirement

make it a simple majority

[petronius]

14. Absolutely! That would be a huge help. And, if we could rein in the initiative

process a bit we'd be a along way toward becoming a stable, functioning state...

[Ganja Ninja]

12. Grover should be mopping the mens room floor at a truck stop somewhere.

Why anyone listens to a man who is such an obvious moron is beyond me.

[bushmeister0]

13. Oh God! Why can't Grover just stick to his "Reagan Dime" project

and mind his own business. What a distastful little troll!