Anti-tax rebel Grover Norquist is
sounding awfully smug for a Washington insider who is gradually losing his
clout.
Though about 50 congressional Republicans
are backing away from the Americans for Tax Reform anti-tax pledge, Norquist is so confident that GOP
lawmakers will shrink the federal government that he recklessly joked about it
on C-SPAN. Thursday’s edition of Washington Journal included an interview with
Norquist in which he imagined President Obama having nothing to do in his
second term except to launch unnecessary wars.
Here’s what he said:
“We got lots of things Obama claims to be for, and we
will make — we, the Republicans in the House and Senate — will make him
actually make those spending restraints, in order to get the continuing resolution
out [for] a week, two weeks, a month. Obama will be on a very short leash,
fiscally speaking, over the next four years. He’s not gonna have any fun at
all. He may decide to go blow up small
countries he can’t pronounce because it won’t be any fun to be here, because he
won’t be able to spend the kind of cash he was hoping to.”
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