Word: norquist
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...savings accounts say that Bush, having decided to take the plunge, should go all the way. He's expected to propose allowing workers to put one-third of the 6.2% payroll tax that is deducted from their paychecks into individual accounts. But advocates like Gingrich and antitax activist Grover Norquist want to know, Why not more? "It's going to take exactly the same amount of energy," Gingrich says. "You are better off trying to get the largest possible account." However big the plan, Bush recognizes that the politics inside his party are daunting. "Part of my effort," he told...
...guns--the Jeb Bush operation, family consigliere Jim Baker and, ultimately, five Supreme Court justices--to win the presidency. Then the Democrats in Congress made the disastrous assumption that Bush would be amenable to bipartisan compromise. "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape," the fanatic G.O.P. tax cutter Grover Norquist later said, in what could stand as an epitaph for the gullible Congressional Democrats. No less a liberal than Ted Kennedy gave his imprimatur to Bush's No Child Left Behind education bill, only to find that the money he expected to fund the program had been left behind. Democrats...
Good ol’ Grover Norquist, chair of the Reagan Legacy Project, says Reagan is underrepresented in the legacy contest with just 60 streets named after him. He compares that to 600 for John F. Kennedy ’40, a former Crimson executive, and to 800 for Martin Luther King. “Our goal is to do at least that well,” Norquist says—forgetting of course that Kennedy and King were both assassinated in their prime and thus fittingly memorialized more vigorously...
Like Grover Norquist who declared
...Norquist had also been in touch with top GOP lobbyist Don Fierce about the issue. Fierce, who has long represented MCI and is an ally of White House political guru Karl Rove, spoke personally to the GSA about MCI?s status as a contractor, lobbied House members to head off a provision that would have short-circuited MCI's future contracts and talked about the matter to the White House-which also tried to influence lawmakers. In addition, an associate of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani-who stands to make a reported $150 million if MCI's bankruptcy reorganization...