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05/27/2003 Archived Entry: ""
THIS is the mindset we're dealing with.
Grover Norquist lays out the Republican mindset for all to see.
"We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship," said Grover Norquist, a leading Republican strategist, who heads a group called Americans for Tax Reform."Bipartisanship is another name for date rape," Norquist, a onetime adviser to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, said, citing an axiom of House conservatives....
The GOP can live with urban liberals such as Waters, Norquist said; it's moderates such as Stenholm who are its prime targets. If the Texas redistricting plan is adopted, Norquist said, "it is exactly the Stenholms of the world who will disappear, ... the moderate Democrats. They will go so that no Texan need grow up thinking that being a Democrat is acceptable behavior."
Will Democrats in every level of government let this slip by, or will they work up the courage to protest it?
Replies: 5 people speak up
Please tell me that Norquist is NOT a citizen of this country. Please tell me that he is not from planet Earth.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/27/2003 12:33 PM NY
I wish I could, Met. (On the first, at least; the jury's still out on whether he, and other neocons, are from this planet or any other planet in a universe I recognize or would want to live in.)
Posted by Tuxedo Slack @ 05/27/2003 01:29 PM NY
Hey don't forget about us liberal Texans! We've taken a beating lately, but at least our reps have some nuts. Tom DeLay is an ass and should be spanked accordingly.
Posted by Left-N-TEX @ 05/27/2003 01:44 PM NY
Left-N-TEX,
You liberal Texans must be a lonely bunch. What city do you live in?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/27/2003 09:06 PM NY
If Repubs succeed in black dems cooperation for two new congress seats, WDs will be a thing of the past. Pete Rose is the only one under 40. Standing together we win as Ardmore proves. Repubs are giving hispanic dems possibly three new seats. It is the same thing. At times this dog howls. Ron Wilson don't sell me out.
Posted by Dog lonely in Tx @ 05/28/2003 12:52 PM NY
