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Grover Norquist: Soon It's Time to Impeach Obama

Anti-tax advocate reveals plan for Republican majority

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 29, 2012 3:34 PM CST

(Newser) – Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist sat down with the National Journal recently to talk tax cuts, Republican majorities, and ... the impeachment of President Obama. Let's start with Norquist's ideal outcome in the 2012 elections: "If the Republicans have the House, Senate, and the presidency ... you extend the Bush tax cuts out for a decade or five years." The impeachment part comes if Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich happen not to win the White House.

In that case, "Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach. The last year, he’s gone into this huddle where he does everything by executive order. He’s made no effort to work with Congress." The Journal also needles him about Republican lawmakers who seek—dare we say it—tax increases, to which Norquist zings: "There’s no point in spending any time getting too worked up on imaginary conversations about imaginary things."

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, meets with millionaires to discuss issues related to the debt supercommittee, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Washington.
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, meets with millionaires to discuss issues related to the debt supercommittee, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Washington.   (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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schmidtkoff
Jan 30, 2012 7:13 PM CST
unbelievable that this freak, who has never held office can clamp down on the balls of the repub party. squeeze them till they scream and and in the end they acquiesce and submit like a beaten dog to his way or the highway. that's what you want republican party? is that really what you want?
Achyvi
Jan 30, 2012 6:04 PM CST
Impeach him for what? My lord, why anyone listens to these idiots is beyond me (and also way, way too depressing to think about).
chuck92081
Jan 30, 2012 2:42 PM CST
Make no mistake. This man's agenda is nothing less than the complete destruction of the U.S. I am not generally given to hyberbole - we have enough of that on the internet. But when you look at his org's agenda, it's essentially the dismantling of the the U.S. government. There was a time when he would would have been called by his right name - anarchist. The Soviet Union, for all its bluster and military might and half a century of concentrated antagonism, never got as close to destroying us as this guy and his followers are right now.

 
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