flipper wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:16:38 -0600, "Ouroboros Rex"
wrote:

Martin Riddle wrote:
"Jim Thompson"
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The Obama Strategy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward...Piven_strategy


More like bankruptcy.

No, that was the republicans' stated objective. "Make government
small enough to drown in the bathtub" is the admitted republican
policy.

..."Grover Norquist being an individual and not the 'republican
party,' his quip has nothing to do with 'bankrupting' anything."

Bull****.

http://www.dlc.org/print.cfm?contentid=251788
..."But one of the leading strategists behind Bush's secret war on government
is more than happy to tell the world all about it. His name is Grover
Norquist, and he is the nation's leading advocate of "kill the taxes and you
kill the government." If pre-emption is the most dangerous idea any
president has had since Richard Nixon, Norquist may well be the most
dangerous adviser. Perhaps more than anyone else, his growing influence on
the Bush agenda helps explain not only the country's current economic woes,
but also the long-term threat the new conservatism poses to a prosperous
future. More and more, the administration seems to be thinking about taxes
just like Norquist -- tax cuts are always good, because they take money from
government.

Norquist, leader of libertarian-leaning groups like his unofficial
leave-us-alone-coalition and Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), is renowned in
Washington as the avatar of scorched-earth tax reduction. He's a hero to
so-called "movement conservatives" (people for whom conservatism is
religion) because they still see, through Reaganesque lenses, the government
as always the enemy, never the solution. Norquist is the man who compared
any and all recipients of government funds -- presumably excluding the
Defense Department -- to cockroaches. He also famously announced that he and
his brethren in the anti-government movement wanted to reduce the federal
government to a size so small "that it could be drowned in a bathtub."

All this would make for an interesting, if grotesque, sideshow except for
one thing: What once was right-wing braggadocio is now the heart of the Bush
agenda. "What this administration is doing, and most people haven't figured
it out yet, is an annual tax cut," Norquist recently told The Washington
Post.

Thanks to the strength of his conservative network and the weakness of the
Bush economic team, Norquist has become, in many respects, the most potent
influence on the administration's economic plan. Most presidencies take
their economic advice from respected economists or titans of industry. The
Bush agenda comes from the fevered brain of a movement ideologue and K
Street anarchist. No wonder the economy is going nowhere. It's as if
President Clinton had turned over the Treasury Department to Jerry Rubin
instead of Bob Rubin.

It says a lot about the direction of the administration that Bush has made
Norquist's battle -- a battle to paralyze the domestic functions of the U.S.
government by repeatedly cutting taxes -- his own. It did not have to be
that way. The irony, and the deception, is that Bush got elected in 2000 by
proving, in effect, that he wasn't Gingrich. Norquism is Gingrich by other
means. Although Bush embraced the idea of a large tax cut as a presidential
candidate, his campaign, and the early rhetoric of his administration, had
other themes -- most notably the idea of a "compassionate conservatism" that
would address entrenched poverty and other social ills through a revival of
civic institutions, and the pledge to "change the tone" in Washington
through bipartisanship and long-range vision.

But over the past two years, serial tax cuts have increasingly become the
alpha and omega of administration domestic policy. The Bush White House has
grown notorious for its highly political nature and a degree of partisanship
extreme even by the distorted standards of the 1990s. The spirit of the Bush
administration is not that of gentle souls like "compassionate
conservatives" Marvin Olasky or John DiIulio. The spirit is that of
Norquist -- single-minded; full of passionate hatred of taxes, domestic
government, and anyone who benefits from either; and ready to do just about
anything to elevate "our team" over "their team." Norquist's notion of
bipartisanship, he said in May, is that it "is another name for date rape."

Bitter partisanship. It's appropriate that Norquist, a confidant of White
House political guru Karl Rove and impresario for an enormous network of
conservative and special-interest lobbyists and advocates, was right out in
front of the effort to enact Bush's latest tax cut package. One minute he
coerced reluctant corporate lobbyists to "get in line" behind the proposal
to make corporate dividends tax-exempt (far down on their wish list). Next
he used his state-level contacts, usually devoted to policing state
legislatures to oppose any kind of tax increase, to get legislative
resolutions passed endorsing the Bush "growth package." Following passage of
the president's tax cuts, Norquist explained his state-level strategy to the
Denver Post: "We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals -- and
turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship."

Norquist's current status as perhaps the most important Republican lobbyist
stems from a remarkable career spanning the rise of the right over the last
quarter-century. His restless political energy has led him into an
astonishing number of crusades. He was Ralph Reed's mentor in the College
Republicans of the early 1980s and helped turn the group from a
mild-mannered frat-boy civic outlet into a savage ideological force on many
campuses. He subsequently spent many months as an on-location and Washington
advocate for South African-financed anti-Marxist insurgencies in Angola and
Mozambique. (At one time, he was well-known in Washington for swaggering
around wearing combat fatigues and sporting a bumper sticker that read: "I'd
rather be killing Commies.") One of his ongoing enterprises is aimed at
relentlessly harassing federal, state, and local officials to name things
after Ronald Reagan. He was reportedly a principal author of Gingrich's
Contract With America. His famous Wednesday meetings have served as a sort
of Comintern for Washington representatives of the right.

Norquist's main project, however, has never changed: his effort to shrink
government at every level, especially by making tax cuts an ideological
imperative for Republicans. ATR's anti-tax "pledge," foisted on a generation
of Republican presidential candidates entering the anti-tax abattoir of the
New Hampshire primary, and on candidates for high and low office around the
country, is the ultimate source of his power.

It's also the source of his connection with the White House, and his role as
a Janus-faced figure in the Bush family saga. "


The actual quote is: ""I don't want to abolish government. I simply
want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom
and drown it in the bathtub."

Thanks. But there are lots of other quotes.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?...ankruptcy_plan

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/hatch-ad...dard-practice/

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com...n_to_norquist/

http://fixco1.com/bushbankrupt.html

http://www.tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.ns...C?OpenDocument