Grover gets weird [View all]

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What's with the lobbyist's creepy sexual allusions about Republicans who might stray from his no-tax pledge?

BY JOAN WALSH

The most important point to make about the spectacle of Grover Norquist being repudiated by some Republicans who signed his pledge is that it’s mainly theatre. Norquist is on the ropes now and it’s seems OK to punch him, in front of the cameras; in private, some Republicans may well be reassuring him that they’re sticking to the pledge, because they are, more or less.

Still, Norquist is obviously feeling personally disrespected, and he’s replying with some weird sexual imagery in chastening Republican apostates. A few have had “impure thoughts,” Norquist told CNN, but “no Republican has voted for a tax increase.” Really? “Impure thoughts?” Then he attacked New York Rep. Peter King for publicly stating he didn’t consider the no-tax pledge a lifelong vow. in creepy personal terms: “Shame on him,” Norquist told Piers Morgan. “I hope his wife understands that commitments last a little longer than two years or something.”

His wife? Is Norquist implying the pledge is akin to a marriage vow? Or that King is married to him? The volatile King shot back Tuesday, calling Norquist a “low life” for comparing his supposed “weaseling out” of his no-tax pledge to violating his marriage vows to his wife.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer gleefully took up Norquist’s marital imagery, claiming Republicans “no longer want to be married to this pledge — they’re saying they want a divorce from Grover Norquist.”

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http://www.salon.com/2012/11/28/grover_gets_weird/