Republican House members are increasingly separating themselves from Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform, the interest group he leads. Specifically they’re disconnecting from ATR’s pledge to oppose any tax increase, The Hill reports.
While some congressmen signed the pledge recently, others did so years ago. Norquist began the pledge in 1986. ATR cites 238 House signers of its Taxpayer Protection Pledge, but several House Republicans accuse the group of being underhanded about it and want to remove their names from the list.
On its Internet display of the pledge’s signers, which includes all but six House Republicans, Americans for Tax Reform includes several congressmen who say they refused to sign it in last year’s election campaigns.
“I haven’t signed it since 1994,” Rep. Steven LaTourette
Read more on Newsmax.com: House GOP To Norquist: Our Tax Pledge Expired
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Grover Norquist and his ilk don’t seem aware of the fact that Representatives in Congress take an oath of office:
Putting aside the “so help me god” bit, this oath obviously supersedes any pledge made by a member of Congress to a private citizen such as Norquist. What is required to support and defend the Constitution is conditional–based on events and circumstances all over the planet, including many that have an impact on the government’s need for revenue. I’m sick to death of Norquist and those reps who think that his nonsense pledge is somehow more binding than the oath of office. Seems to me that Norquist’s attitude, and maybe his actions, are traitorous.
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