HOLDING THE LINE
Norquist visits with Illinois GOP Sen. Mark Kirk at the height of the debt-ceiling debate.
members of Congress do anything — because he can’t, nor can anyone.” Broun adds: “The greatest force
on members is their constituents.” Broun, who carries a copy of the Con- stitution with him everywhere he goes, is quick to point out, “The stron- gest political force in America is em- bodied in the fi rst three words of the U.S. Constitution, ‘We the people.’ The pledge is just saying to ‘we the people’ — my constituents — that I take this position as a policy, and I’m not going to vote to raise your taxes.” There’s another problem with the
Dr. Evil line of attack: Norquist him- self. After all, he’s basically a policy wonk who likes to entertain people in his spare time by juggling and per- forming stand-up routines at D.C. comedy clubs. He’s married to an
“People who want to raise taxes, like Reid, Pelosi, and Obama . . . don’t want to say publicly, ‘The Republicans won’t raise your taxes, I’m trying to get them to raise your taxes.’ What they’ll say is, ‘We’re all trying to be reasonable, and Grover Norquist is in the way of reasonable’ . . . What’s ‘reasonable’ mean? Raise your taxes!”
— ATR Chief Grover Norquist
Arab-American, and is the adoptive father of a baby girl from Bethlehem. In photographs, he often appears
to be glowering. But if you visit his offi ce it won’t be long before he’s tell- ing you about his prized collection of airsickness bags he’s collected from
airlines. So Norquist is a pretty tough guy to pigeon-hole, despite Demo- crats’ best eff orts to the contrary. “People who want to raise taxes,
like Reid, Pelosi, and Obama, who say ‘darn Grover Norquist,’ the point they’re getting to is, Damn, Grover’s
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