Saxby Chambliss: 'I Care A Lot More About' America Than About Grover Norquist (VIDEO)
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) unloaded on anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and his "no new taxes" pledge this week, saying that it has impeded meaningful progress toward finding additional revenue and a path away from the fiscal cliff.
Chambliss, a member of the new "Gang of Eight" seeking a bipartisan framework for deficit reduction and a signatory of Norquist's pledge -- of which he's spoken unfavorably in the past -- said Wednesday that he wasn't concerned about potential backlash over his criticism.
"I care too much about my country -- I care a lot more about it than I do about Grover Norquist," Chambliss told Georgia's WMAZ in acknowledging that he could face repercussions from Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform. "Norquist has no plan to pay this debt down. His plan says you continue to add to the debt, and I just have a fundamental disagreement about that and I'm willing to do the right thing and let the political consequences take care of themselves."
Wow...What a concept... A Republican that cares more about his country than drinking Norquist's Kool-Aid... I guess some of the more intelligent ones are starting to figure out they can't WIN if they keep following the rest of the lemmings off the cliff.
Actually, what he said was that he cares more about his country and he understands that this will be very unpopular with Norquist who will use it against him with the voters (so he may very well lose his job when he's up for re-election).
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
I think that he and other Republicans are starting to come around to the idea that it is ok to be bipartisan to serve the interests of their constitutients. Chris Christie has come from being relatively unpopular in NJ to overwhelming popular after he worked with the President for the residents of NJ, even if it pissed Romney off.
"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you can be batman. Then always be batman." Unknown
Didn't you get the memo?... You LOST the election... And, as you were so fond of saying after 2010, "Elections have consequences." If the majority of the U.S. voting population had wanted for Mitt-the-Twit to balance the budget by cutting everything in sight, he wouldn't have lost the election.
They're saying the "rates aren't on the table" now...But that doesn't mean much right now... (They also said their primary mission-in-life was to make Barack Obama a One-Term President... And we know how THAT turned out.)
More like a continuing standoff than an election win. If America truly supported Obama they would have given him a Democrat Congress like he had in 2008.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
If they loved the teabaggers of 2010 so much why did they vote 17 of them out of office? The only reason they got as many as they did is because they gerrymandered the districts to ensure some safeholds in some districts...
Keep telling me how great it was in 2010... And I'll keep reminding you of 2012...
