Is grover over? Norquist's anti-tax jihad stumbles in the states.
Washington Monthly › Vol. 37 Nbr. 3, March 2005
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Is grover over? Norquist's anti-tax jihad stumbles in the states.
If ever two men seemed to share one political soul, surely they were Grover Norquist and Mitch Daniels. From his perch as president of Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist was the architect of President Bush's strategy to cut taxes every year and has elicited signed promises from virtually every congressional Republican never to vote for a tax hike. Norquist once famously boasted that he hoped to "reduce [government] to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub? During Bush's first term, it was Daniels, the White House budget director, who began running the water. During his 6me in the White House, Daniels conceded nothing in arguing for the president's tax cuts, even going so f...
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