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"There's an overall denial in the administration that the agenda being pushed by Norquist might be a problem," one official said. "It's so absurd that a Grover Norquist person could even be close to something like this. That's really what's so insidious."

Gaffney did not respond to my request for an interview. But his feud with Norquist spilled into public view in January 2003 at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington. According to an account in the National Review, Gaffney told the conference-goers: "I'm sorry to say there is an active and, to a considerable degree successful, [radical Muslim] political operation aimed not least at the Bush White House."

I saw that on C-Span-- it got pretty tense there for a few minutes, with a tax-cut activist getting up there and calling Gaffney a backstabber. Now, as much as I want tax reform, I want to live under a non- 'Islamic control freak regime' even more.

Gee, maybe Nordquist has decided he wants the Zacat. The flat rate Muslim tax of 10% demanded by the Koran.