Obstructionism Is Now Good
When conservative strategist Grover Norquist says bipartisanship is like date rape, he wasn't kidding:
At the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, right-wing activist and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist urged conservatives not to work to accomplish anything in the current Congress.“Get married, develop a hobby, learn to belly dance, learn to golf — you know, we got two years free, but we gotta spend time and effort playing defense here,” Norquist said. “Our job is to say ‘no, no, no, no’ for two years.”
Norquist predicted, “People are gonna go, ‘oh maybe this bill isn’t as bad as it looks.’” But he warned, ” Don’t eat it, don’t swallow it, don’t touch it. Nothing good passes this Congress.”
So much for the importance of the Upordown Vote™.
Update: As a commentator on Steve Benen's blog said, this is just typical of these lizard-brain conservatives. They will stop at nothing to make sure that government doesn't work, that it will fail the public trust, because to them the government is a worthless entity that gets in the way of private rapacity over those without the means to protect themselves and the consequent enrichment of the elite few. The New Deal was a disaster to these snakes because it instilled in the public mind that government does work for the people in order to improve their lives, and indeed the policies helped create the (white) middle class that we know today. Since the conservatives are all about hyper-stratification in order to create a new nobility, that just can't happen.