Just saw the 60 Minutes profile of Grover Norquist. Took a screen shot of this:
Thanks to billions in taxpayer investments, the Washington DC-area Metro system is awesome. It goes everywhere, including the suburbs, usually runs on time, and is open late. When I lived in DC, I actually spotted Norquist in the Metro once on his way to Woodley Park, and have wondered since how he excuses using such a socialist transit system.
The 60 Minutes profile was neat, but Steve Kroft didn’t bother to dig into Norquist’s corporate benefactors, or his long history of being a business lobbyist.
In May of 2010, I did a piece for ThinkProgress showing that he still partners with Altria (parent company of Phillip Morris) to conduct “anti-tax Tea Parties” to guard Altria against cigarette taxes.
For more on Norquist’s history of influence peddling, read this delightful rant from Republican Congressman Frank Wolf.
Yep, conservatives believe public transit is socialism. Excellence as usual, Lee.
This article is laughable in regards to: a.) the idea that you think the metro is good at what it’s supposed to do b.) your generalization that conservatives think public transit is socialism. Good one, Lee!
Is the escalator that Norquist is ascending there actually working? Because if so, it’s a miracle.
And the fact that escalators are a unique problem to the DC metro system suggests that throwing taxpayer money at the wall doesn’t solve corrupt mismanagement by Democrat public officials.
There’s a simple solution to evil government Metro systems: walk or take a cab.
then they’d be using public streets and you’d hammer them on that. this post is reaching – as in, it is a giant reach-around.
Yeah, its almost as if society needs taxes to function properly. So crazy. But don’t tell Grover, he’s busy fighting the nanny-state.
I know this is mind blowing and all, but Grover Norquist is not an anarchist.
Have fun in your circle jerk comments section though!
When your most famous line is about drowning government in a bathtub, how can you be considered anything but an anarchist?