"'My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.' - Grover Norquist, 'Field Marshal' of the Bush Plan"
Conservatives, better than anyone, know that the image of infanticide has powerful emotional force. But ironically, it's progressives this time around who were using Grover Norquist's frequently quoted and much scorned quote above to turn the tables on Washington's elite cabal of conservative movers and shakers having their weekly strategy meeting on L street. Read More »
... Or, better, "Christ Has Left The Building" as Peter Hardie puts it. Pat Robertson's desire to snipe, literally, at Hugo Chavez makes Mr. Hardie, vice president for Campaigns and Labor Affairs at TransAfrica Forum, wonder out loud about the good pastor's attitudes towards other dictatorial regimes.
Robertson opposed "one person, one vote" in the apartheid state South Africa, was close buddies with Zaire's notorious Mbutu Sese Seko, and opposed US government sanctions against Liberia's murderous Charles Taylor. Zaire's decades long socialist dictatorship, Liberia's war-ravaged autocracy and South Africa's apartheid regime are lightyears ahead of Chavez's general thuggery in today's Venezuela. Why the bullet for Hugo?
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