It’s becoming clearer than ever that “an increasing number of prominent Republicans are dismissing Grover Norquist as a pest.” His majority in Congress is all but gone, but he’s still out there insisting that any member of Congress who dares to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire or even support “any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates” would face threats to their election prospects. So anything that increases federal revenue is verboten.
But when a Republican as prominent as Saxby Chambliss gives “poopy head” Grovie the talk-to-the-hand treatment, ears perk up:
(CNN) – “I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge,” Sen. Saxby Chambliss told Georgia television station WMAZ, a CNN affiliate, on Wednesday. “If we do it his way, then we’ll continue in debt and I just have a disagreement with him about that.” [...]
“Norquist has no plan to pay this debt down,” said Chambliss, who is up for re-election in 2014.
Chambliss assumes that Norquist will fight his re-election efforts, but says he cares “more about my country… than I do Grover Norquist” and is “willing to do the right thing and let the political consequences take care of themselves.”
If this is a trend, it’s a good one, because it means Grover Norquist is finally…










