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If you venture over to Grover Norquist's website you will find all the assorted "organizations" that work out of his suite of offices. There's a bunch--Americans for Tax Reform (his main group), the Leave Us Alone Coalition, the American Shareholders Association, the K Street Project, a couple of others.
And then there's the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project--Norquist's effort to get something in every county in the United States named for Ronald Reagan. Tis a curious project. I mean, Ronnie was probably a nice enough guy if you can overlook the fact that he armed and bankrolled both Saddam and Osama. And he's a law-abiding guy if you can get past the 167 formally-indicted crooks in his administration. Reagan was a freedom-loving guy, whch explains why more communist governments were founded during Reagan's tenure than at any point before or since in the history of the world. He was a peace-loving man, which naturally explains why he bought so many nuclear weapons; a fiscally-responsible man once you forget about his tripling the national debt, a tax-hating man (well, except for the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, a law which made the infamous Clinton Tax Increases look moderate),
All right, all right, I know, Reagan was quite possibly the most two-faced son of a bitch who ever walked the earth and even Grover Fucking Norquist has to be able to see that. But still, this fuckwad is running all over the country attempting to get things BESIDES dog pounds, county jails, sewage treatment plants and toxic waste treatment facilities named for Ronald Reagan. There's got to be a point to this whole exercise, you may think.
Indeed there is. Look closely at the membership lists of this group--they're right at reaganlegacy.org. This is a roster of every high-end Repuke in the United States. Karl Rove's on there. Jesse Helms is on there. Tom DeLay makes an appearance. The president of the Heritage Foundation is in here, as are two College Republican National Committee officers.
Let's review what we know about Grover Norquist, who runs this outfit: * He hates Democrats with a passion. * He hates government spending with equal zeal. * He is exceptional at raising money for various conservative causes. * And he is very good at establishing and maintaining front organizations.
The reason this group is more important than any other Norquist front is the state-level organizations. He's connected to the most powerful Republicans in most of the state legislatures through this group. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that when the top Repukes in America meet under the auspices of this organization, they don't restrain themselves to smoking Habanos and swapping war stories about how great it was when Ronnie shut the mental hospitals down. Nay, they're up to something. Check this shit out: One of the members of the executive board of the Reagan Legacy Project is the Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Rabbi Lapin is president of Toward Tradition...which is directed by Jack Abramoff.
These guys bear serious watching. I've started a file.
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