Somewhere Grover Norquist is freaking out!

The millionaire lobbyist and anti-tax master of the Republican Party may be losing his grip on power. Today - Freshman Republican Representative Rick Crawford is introducing legislation in the Tea Party-controlled House to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires. Crawford's legislation mirrors what Democrats in the Senate have been trying to do for months - add a small surtax on anyone who makes more than $2 million a year. One aide close to Representative Crawford said about the legislation, "If we're going to make any progress in addressing the deficit and the debt eventually, then we need to find compromise." So it looks like at least one voice in the Republican Party is waking up to the reality of the situation - that Republicans can't ride a rich-people-only agenda to an election victory in 2012 - although they seem eager to try. As Vice President Joe Biden said in Ohio today - Republicans are about, "protecting the privileged." But it wasn't always this way...In the old days of the Republican Party - there wasn't just one voice willing to make the super rich sacrifice just a little bit more to protect the middle class - it was in fact a Party platform. Here's the big picture....

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[MsZeitgeist85]

Charge the poor people for being poor, pay the rich for being rich. It's the Grover Norquist Pledge.

[Tippersnore]

Grover Norquist's nuts should be extracted, roasted, diced, and spoon-fed to all those Pledge-signing Repugs making noise over the deficit now but who championed tax cuts, wars, and even entitlement expansion during Dubya's reign of error.

[acchokiefan]

When will Americans and even the makers of this GREAT VIDEO SERIES concede the notion that the rights intention is NOT to save the country, but to wreck it. They must first make it fail in order to rebuild it in the iron fist ruling party that they intend to use. It's clear to me. There can be no other motive, bush tried on his way out of the office, we are not supposed to be afloat at this juncture. The next wave of sabotage should do us in. If Romney steals the election thru voter suppression

[trolololoz]

@johnnycmajor

You are Canadian too they why would you like a public healthcare hating libertarian?

[trolololoz]

@johnnycmajor

As a Canadian, I beg Usa not to small into the trap of libertarianism, it will only lead to a wider rich poor gap, as it lowering taxes on everyone will lead to the gutting of social programs and education, these programs help poor and middle classes, none of the the growing developed economies take this path, like Canada , Scandinavia and Germany, they tax the rich and invest in strong programs like Great Education and universal healthcare, the latter being the libertarian bane

[Arnold Schwertman]

boo hoo the G O P make me want cry