Tweet, Countertweets

Here's anti-tax libertarian neckbeard Grover "Drown Government In A Bathtub" Norquist on President Obama's plans to address gun violence:

To understand what Obama wants  in our future.... ....Watch the Star Wars movies and imagine that only the storm troopers have guns.

— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) January 2, 2016

Here's a response from John Sheehan:

@GroverNorquist pic.twitter.com/ngiEUNXtp5

— John Sheehan (@dogstar7tweets) January 2, 2016

And Jeet Heer's fact check:

Fact check: Ewoks defeated Storm Troopers without relying on guns (or blasters).  https://t.co/DRVRJU3uAg

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) January 2, 2016

And, as a bonus, Bob Schooley's overall take on the neckbeard's "Burning Man" utopia:

#WhatGroverNorquistWants pic.twitter.com/LskMTCnHDD

— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) January 2, 2016

For the neckbeard, the only thing missing in that last image is that the two aren't packing AR-15's.

Grover Norquist: Racketeer

Bill Moyers lays the wood to "It's Over" Grover Norquist:



A nice lead-in for Moyers' piece, "Capitol Crimes," which can be viewed at billmoyers.com.

Cartoon of the Day

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For years, the corporate front group "Americans for Tax Reform" has held Rethuglican politicians to its pledge to never, ever, no way raise taxes (on the wealthy, that is). The head of the group, Grover Norquist, is well known for threatening Rethugs to hold the line, or face primary challenges. This article on Arizona Sen. Jon "Kill It" Kyl's destructive role on the "Super Committee" reflects Norquist's influence on Kill It and the rest of the Rethug apparatus.

The Cur Speaks

"He was given everything he had in life. He didn't earn anything. He is Thurston Howell III, and he has the nerve to say to people who built small businesses, restaurants and gas stations that they should have their money stolen from them." -- Grover Norquist, anti-government, anti-tax, "Gilligan's Island" connoisseur and all-around dimbulb, on Sen. Ted Kennedy. In other words, Norquist would have approved of Kennedy more had he been true to his "class," and been a selfish, conservative p.o.s. like himself.