{"id":592,"date":"2011-10-06T07:42:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T11:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=592"},"modified":"2011-10-06T07:42:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T11:42:33","slug":"house-republican-grover-norquist-%e2%80%98is-paralyzing-congress%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/house-republican-grover-norquist-%e2%80%98is-paralyzing-congress%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican: Grover Norquist \u2018is paralyzing Congress\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) is one of just six Republican in Congress who haven\u2019t signed Grover Norquist\u2019s anti-tax pledge. On the House floor Tuesday, he attacked Norquist for single-handedly enforcing this hard line within the GOP, creating a destructive impasse in the legislative process. \u201cEverything must be on the table and I believe how the \u2018pledge\u2019 is interpreted and enforced by Mr. Norquist is a roadblock to realistically reforming our tax code,\u201d Wolf said. \u201cHave we really reached a point where one person\u2019s demand for ideological purity is paralyzing Congress to the point that even a discussion of tax reform is viewed as breaking a no-tax pledge?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolf also attacked Norquist personally, claiming that he has \u201cdeep ties to supporters of Hamas and other terrorist organizations,\u201d as well as to Jack Abramoff and other \u201cunsavory groups and people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/house-republican-grover-norquist-is-paralyzing-congress\/2011\/10\/05\/gIQAdwTbNL_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">House Republican: Grover Norquist \u2018is paralyzing Congress\u2019 &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"cspan-video-player\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" width=\"350\" height=\"300\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/videoLibrary\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=301882-1&amp;start=828&amp;end=1107\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?programid=262265&amp;style=full&amp;start=828&amp;end=1107\" \/><embed name=\"cspan-video-player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/videoLibrary\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=301882-1&amp;start=828&amp;end=1107\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" quality=\"high\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?programid=262265&amp;style=full&amp;start=828&amp;end=1107\" align=\"middle\" height=\"300\" width=\"350\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) is one of just six Republican in Congress who haven\u2019t signed Grover Norquist\u2019s anti-tax pledge. On the House floor Tuesday, he attacked Norquist for single-handedly enforcing this hard line within the GOP, creating a destructive impasse in the legislative process. \u201cEverything must be on the table and I believe how the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22,231],"tags":[69,70,26,351,295,352,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}