WHO’S AFRAID OF GROVER NORQUIST?
There’s one photo I took at Saturday’s anti-war rally that I wanted to highlight separately. Take a look:
This Working Assets-sponsored billboard truck, emblazoned with a quote attributed to GOP strategist Grover Norquist, was parked off of Constitution Ave. As raving moonbats passed by, they gasped and booed at the horrific budget-slashing sentiments of the anti-government “Field Marshal” of the “Bush Plan.”
You know what my reaction to the billboard was?
Snort. Snorty-snort-snort.
Can you believe how out of touch the Left is? While they tremble at Norquist’s empty rhetoric of yore, the GOP has become hog heaven for the likes of Alaska Republican Don Young and other leading pork defenders. Norquist’s own pals, government moochers Jack Abramoff and David Safavian, are embroiled in big-government corruption schemes. The party is in turmoil over President Bush’s Lyndon Johnson impersonations. And as Robert Novak reports, the fiscal conservative wing of the party (such as it is) is valiantly struggling with the Bush brigade to get its anti-pork Operation Offset off the ground.
Mark Steyn, grounded in reality, sums it up:
Ambitious presidents seize on extreme events to change the culture, as FDR did, using the Depression to transform the nature of the federal government. In allowing the eco-crazies to get away with prioritizing the world’s biggest mosquito herd over Alaskan oil, and the teaching establishment with insisting that there’s nothing wrong with the most overfunded public education system in the world that can’t be fixed with even more wasted dollars, and the bureaucracy with creating an instantly sclerotic jobs-for-life federalized airport security (that just walked off the job in Houston), the Republicans missed their post-9/11 opportunity.
Instead of changing the nature of the federal government, the Republican majority in Washington seems to be changing the nature of the Republican Party. The Democrats’ approach to government has been Sorosized, the GOP’s has been supersized. Some choice.
Sigh.
***
For those of you haven’t lost all hope, the blogosphere’s Porkbusters campaign continues. Carry on!
***
Previous:
President Bush’s Medicare debacle
Why no one paid me to sell “No Child Left Behind”
TSA: Taking stupidity apart?
Making fiscal conservatives cringe
Big government chart of the day
Soros, sports pork, and stupid Republicans
8/2/2000 flashback: Leave the slogans behind
What say you now, Grover Norquist?
With friends like these
Who is Faisal Gill? Pt 2 Pt 3
You must be logged in to post a comment.
First Day of 2012 Open Thread & Aspirin-Swapping Roundtable
January 1, 2012 11:45 AM by Doug Powers
235 CommentsReports: Miners trapped in Mullan, Idaho; 6 hospitalized
December 15, 2011 01:34 AM by Michelle Malkin
23 CommentsSports and the sexual abuse of children; Plus: Rick Santorum makes things worse
November 8, 2011 02:29 PM by Michelle Malkin
89 Comments10 years ago: My generation’s bloody wake-up call
September 10, 2011 10:07 PM by Michelle Malkin
44 CommentsHurricane/Tropical Storm Irene Open Thread
August 28, 2011 12:25 PM by Doug Powers
104 CommentsQuake alert: Shake, rattle, and roll!
August 23, 2011 02:03 PM by Michelle Malkin
231 CommentsHappy Mother’s Day!
May 8, 2011 11:07 AM by Doug Powers
57 CommentsChrist the Lord is risen today
April 24, 2011 09:32 AM by Michelle Malkin
100 Comments
Categories: Uncategorized
Babalu Blog
» Greece is Burning
Patterico
» NYT hails the safety net: Poor hardest hit
Daily Caller
» Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations
Nice Deb
» Former DEA Chief Tells Fox News: 3 Other Federal Agencies Knew About Operation ‘Fast and Furious’
Gateway Pundit
» Notre Dame Tells Obama: HHS Mandate Is a ‘Grave Violation of Religious Freedom and Cannot Stand’
AmSpecBlog
» Weekend Political Wrap-Up
JustOneMinute
» I Guess I'm Still Stuck On Stupid
The Hill
» Rep. Ron Paul not conceding Maine vote









See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.