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Grover Hits Back Against Negative Report

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012

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WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - U.S. anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, scourge of any and all tax increases, said on Tuesday that news report questi...

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More In GOP Passing Over Norquist

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2012

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In GOP activist circles it is known simply as the pledge, and over the past 25 years it has become the essential conservative credential for a whole g...

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WATCH: Grover Norquist Juggles

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.03.2012

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Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform and an avid anti-tax crusader, lets loose in a new video that shows him juggling beanbags. Nor...

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Why Lindsay Lohan Landed On Grover's 'Naughty' List

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.27.2011

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Grover Norquist targeted actress Lindsay Lohan for "costing all taxpayers so much money" on Americans For Tax Reform's annual "Naughty and Nice List."...

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Norquist -- Rats in the Belfry

Alan Siegel | Posted 02.08.2012

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The problem with Norquist's brand definition is that it portrays the Republican Party as a "brand" that is strangled with the inability to compromise and effectively address the critical issues facing the country.

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GOP Shifts On Key Issue Ahead Of 2012

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 01.17.2012

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WASHINGTON — The GOP's image as a rigidly anti-tax party is softening. Spurred by federal debt worries in Congress, the shift conceivably could ...

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Republican Hopefuls Assault GOP Proposal

AP | DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 01.15.2012

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner publicly blessed a Republican deficit-reduction plan Tuesday that would raise $300 billion in additional...

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'There's Not Going To Be A Tax Increase'

The Hill | Bernie Becker | Posted 01.11.2012

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Grover Norquist isn't worried about a GOP supercomittee proposal on taxes because he thinks Democrats want the panel to fail to reach a deal. ...

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'I Did Not Promise Him To Oppose Tax Increases Until Death Do Us Part'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.09.2012

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A growing number of House lawmakers want out of an Americans For Tax Reform President Grover Norquist's pledge in which they vowed to never raise taxe...

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Boehner Makes Odd Comment On Norquist

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner has sidestepped a question about whether anti-tax activist Grover Norquist is a positive influence on Republi...

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Top Anti-Tax Republican Slams Cain's '999' Plan

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.18.2011

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Grover Norquist, president of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, said on ABC's "Top Line" on Monday that Republican presidential candidate Her...

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Isn't It Ironic When Politicians Parade Their Faith but Act Unchristian?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.22.2011

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I cannot find any passage in the Bible that says: "Oh Ye Faithful: The poor shall sacrifice so that the rich may retain their wealth," but that appears to be the fundamental policy of the fundamentalists.

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At Conservative Gathering, Skepticism Of Afghan War Takes Center Stage

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- It's not quite at a tipping point, but two years after President Barack Obama announced that he was putting 17,000 more troops into Afgh...

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Conservative Heavyweight Urges Government Shutdown

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Grover Norquist, leader of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, suggested a high-stakes approach to tackling the issue of federal spending Thurs...

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Dennis Kucinich, Vice President for the Commonwealth--and Some Details

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

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Below, as a memory aid, are the previously identified elements and proposed leaders within the Vice Presidency for the Commonwealth, each linked to mo...

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Don't Listen to Wall Street, They Are the Ones That Got Us in This Mess

Donald Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why do cable TV, blogs and proliferating new media still care about how Wall Street evaluates public policy? Why would we listen to them?

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Grover Norquist On Thompson's Failed Candidacy: It's The Taxes, Stupid

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fred Thompson announced that he would be removing his name from the presidential race on Tuesday, following a campaign that witnessed more disappointm...

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