This is the MSM’s favorite game, taking an often derided conservative, and then resurrecting him to tear down another conservative.
Thanks anyway, Grover. I’ll stick with Laffer on this one. You can go back to assuring everyone that “repealing” the Bush Tax Cuts isn’t a tax increase.
Yeah, no kidding, why the heck are we listening to Norquist???
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As the chief spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said recently, Norquist has become the “chief cleric of Shariah tax law” in America. Norquist has used his influence in Washington to propel the careers of people like Suhail Khan, a former Bush White House appointee, whose family founded the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. and held fundraisers for al-Qaida’s No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Thanks to Norquist’s sponsorship, Khan now sits on the board of the American Conservative Union, the group that organizes the largest annual conservative conference in the country, known as CPAC. Norquist also serves on that board and the board of the National Rifle Association – as well as the advisory board of GOProud, a homosexual group promoting same-sex marriage, open homosexuality in the U.S. military and hate-crimes laws.
Indeed, Norquist claims to see no conflict between Islamic, Saudi-style Shariah law and the Constitution. In fact, he says Islam “is completely consistent with the U.S. Constitution and a free and open society.” Anyone who disagrees with him, like me, an Arab-American whose grandparents fled the Middle East for the liberty they found in America, is “Islamophobic.”
Norquist is also behind the Republican candidacy of Imam Afif “David” Ramadan in Virginia’s 87th legislative district. Who is Ramadan? Ramadan is married to the daughter of a Shiite general in the Lebanese intelligence service, Ghanda Abdul Rahman Zoghbi. As Kenneth Timmerman, a veteran Middle East correspondent, writes, “How do you get to marry the daughter of a Shiite general in the Lebanese intelligence service, which has long been dominated by Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah? Certainly not by being a secular Muslim – also known as an ‘apostate’ by Muslim believers – who embraces the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution over Shariah law?” Good question, indeed.
For more on Ramadan, be sure to see the brilliant profile by former CIA operations officer Kent Clizbe – hardly an Islamophobe given that he, like Norquist, married a Muslim woman.
Grover Norquist, through his pimping for GOProud, is undermining a central tenet of conservatism – support for the traditional family, marriage and a moral system based on the Judeo-Christian values of the Bible.
But, because of Grover Norquist’s influence, it gets even worse for the conservative movement, I’m afraid.
Even before the Republican House majority was seated after the 2010 election, Norquist began devising the strategy behind the total capitulation of the leadership on the raising of the debt limit. Here was a unique opportunity for a new brand of Republican leadership that could actually take a giant step toward limited government in Washington – by simply refusing to authorize more unsustainable borrowing. Norquist was the Machiavellian architect of this very unconservative capitulation.
While he may oppose tax increases, he has no problems with the federal government gorging itself at the trough of trillions in indebtedness.
In addition, Wolf is correct in pointing out that it was Norquist who led the opposition to Sen. Coburn’s proposed elimination of the ethanol tax subsidy.
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