During a recent interview on CBS This Morning, Grover Norquist, the Poobah-in-Chief at The Club for Growth, claimed that President Obama won the election because he called Mitt Romney a poopy-head. This is the guy who strongarmed the majority of Congressional Republicans into signing a pledge never to raise taxes on anyone for any reason. Consequently, many pundits once considered him to be the most powerful man in the nation.
It seems as if American voters had other priorities this time 'round. In the wake of his political meltdown, The Guy Formerly Known as the Most Powerful Man in the Nation has been reduced to kindergarten-level rhetoric. Mr. Norquist's poopy-head remark has been captured on a 57-second video: I had to replay it several times to make sure that my comprehension skills were still intact. Anyway, here's the evidence:Grover Norquist at his Finest I'm not joking; just listen up at 0:24.
So there you have it. Issues no longer matter. All any aspiring office-holder needs to do is to hone his (or her) schoolyard vocabulary. Mr. Norquist implies that there's no longer any need to be well-informed about the compelling issues of our times, such as the state of the economy, health care, education, or international concerns.
Just call your opponent a stinky-pants!
I detect a lessening of Grover Norquist's influence, an outcome devoutly to be wished.
ReplyDeleteI dare to hope that office holders worry about
the looming fiscal cliff, have decided to buckle
down and do their jobs. Is this a pipe dream? I think i see positive signs.
Your scatological take on this was amusing.