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Time to start making a "run out of town on a rail" list.

Put the tar on the fire. Get the feathers.

1 posted on 11/09/2011 3:07:41 AM PST by markomalley
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"“My driver’s license expires. The milk in my refrigerator expires. My gym membership expires, and I find the website to be a little deceptive,” LaTourette said."

You know what else expires? Your term, douchebag.

2 posted on 11/09/2011 3:12:18 AM PST by StAnDeliver (/)
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Should have asked them to sign a spending cut pledge, as well. They’ll never do it without passing a BBA. I don’t see that ever happening without serious upheaval first.


3 posted on 11/09/2011 3:16:23 AM PST by edpc (My silence IS an answer)
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So give me a list of people who want to raise taxes.

By the way: I have Grover Norquist ripped on FR because he is married to a Muslim woman.


4 posted on 11/09/2011 3:22:40 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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“I don’t care to be associated with it. It’s too constraining,” Fortenberry told an August town hall in his district, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.

Yeah, a fiscally constrained government is such a bad thing, right Congressman?

5 posted on 11/09/2011 3:38:01 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Don't Tread on Me!)
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Norquist should be made to sign a pledge against car bombs.


6 posted on 11/09/2011 3:41:38 AM PST by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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"“My driver’s license expires. The milk in my refrigerator expires. My gym membership expires, and I find the website to be a little deceptive,” LaTourette said."

So his word of honor is as durable and long lasting as fresh milk.

7 posted on 11/09/2011 3:47:50 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) signed the pledge in 1998, when he first ran for Congress, and said he didn’t even know he was still on the list until earlier this year. “I thought it was for the next Congress,” Simpson said. “If it sticks with you forever, why do they ask you to re-sign it every two years?”

To remind you that the voters who put you in office are watching.

9 posted on 11/09/2011 3:55:14 AM PST by Victoria_R (Believers in VERY small government: Count Mountjoy/Benter in 2012!!!)
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telling The Hill they no longer feel bound to uphold a document that they signed, in some cases, more than a decade ago.

Did the signers of the Declaration of Independence feel the same way 10 years later?

10 posted on 11/09/2011 4:01:51 AM PST by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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I remember the last time somebody said “Read my lips, no new taxes”.
11 posted on 11/09/2011 4:02:43 AM PST by tobyhill (Obama, The Biggest Thief In American History)
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VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS... REPLACE WITH CONSERVATIVES THAT SIGN A PRO AMERICAN PLEDGE FOR LIFE.

LLS


13 posted on 11/09/2011 4:38:30 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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“Time to start making a “run out of town on a rail” list.
Put the tar on the fire. Get the feathers. “

No doubt. We need to primary every one of these wavering spineless pieces of crap. I can’t believe they think they can get away with thumbing their noses at us when we put them in power. We need some serious house-cleaning this upcoming election.


15 posted on 11/09/2011 4:53:47 AM PST by lquist1
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For anyone who missed it.....

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 - August 2010 issue

17 posted on 11/09/2011 5:01:55 AM PST by mewzilla (Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
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LaTourette said he had also assumed he had not signed it and even enlisted Boehner’s office to check with Norquist’s group, which confirmed that he did endorse the pledge in 1994.

..to which LaTourette said, "Damn.. why do they have to keep RECORDS??"

21 posted on 11/09/2011 5:47:34 AM PST by ScottinVA (Hurrah me boys, for FREEDOM! `Tis the risin` o` the moon!)
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Remember,the deal that gave us the super-committee—a deal that none of our South Carolina legislators voted for,I'm proud to say—pretty much set in stone that there will be tax increases or our military will be GUTTED by half with arbitrary cuts!!!
We have a lot of military here in SC (the main reason McCain won our primary in 2008),and our economy would come close to collapse if these cuts are made. But again our GOP representatives voted against the measure so they are protected.
Many RINOs voted FOR it and if they can't raise taxes they will be blamed for the economic disasters in their own states when the draconian cuts to our military are automatically put into effect.
Lay down with dogs Pubbies...
22 posted on 11/09/2011 5:49:33 AM PST by Happy Rain ( "Many of the most useful idiots of the Left are on the Right.")
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A growing number of GOP lawmakers have disavowed Norquist’s pledge against supporting tax increases

Which means... look for them to acquiesce to calls for, as Harry Reid termed it, "a teeny, tiny increase in contributions from millionaires and billionaires."

23 posted on 11/09/2011 5:51:14 AM PST by ScottinVA (Hurrah me boys, for FREEDOM! `Tis the risin` o` the moon!)
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Target all signers who break their pledge in the primary.


24 posted on 11/09/2011 5:52:16 AM PST by KansasGirl
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This headline is misleading. One would get the impression that a large number of them want out, when in fact it’s a small handfull of the usual RINO suspects that have been wanting out for years. Nothing new here.


25 posted on 11/09/2011 6:18:53 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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“I haven’t signed it since 1994,” Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) said

Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.)...told The Hill he signed the document a single time, in 1992

Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) signed the pledge in 1998

Republican Reps. Howard Coble (N.C.), Pete King (N.Y.) and Lee Terry (Neb.) all indicated that they signed the pledge more than a decade ago

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) signed the pledge prior to being elected to Congress in 2004

Anyone notice the trend? Once they have been in the machine for a while, they don't give a rip about you, or any silly promises they made to get in your good graces.

TERM LIMITS

Throw the bums out.

26 posted on 11/09/2011 6:32:47 AM PST by teenyelliott (Obama warned if he loses the election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance)
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I for one would never have signed Norquist’s pledge (and probably would lose for that and other reasons). I’d gladly trade a $1 tax increase for a trillion dollars in spending cuts, but that is technically against the pledge. Very silly.


29 posted on 11/09/2011 6:45:59 AM PST by MichaelNewton
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I’m not going to try to defend congresscritters; they have staff for that. But keep in mind that this pledge has been used to try and keep Congress from voting to close loopholes and eliminate some of the sweetheart tax breaks that corporations have gotten passed to give themselves advantages over their competitors. Pledges like this put Congressmen at the mercy of people like Grover Norquist, which most FReepers should know by now is not a good thing.


30 posted on 11/09/2011 6:46:13 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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