http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/norquist/ en-us Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:16:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054789/posts Grover Norquist: “Spencer Hates Muslims”   By Robert SpencerFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 01, 2008 A week or so ago Ed Morrissey put up a post at Hot Air lauding Grover Norquist for his work for tax reform. I added this comment:Grover Norquist has been responsible, more than any other individual, for the infiltration of Islamic supremacists into the highest levels of the U.S. government. See here the seminal expose by Frank Gaffney of the immense damage Norquist has done.The continuing general ignorance among conservatives of the political aspects of Islam, and of the efforts by Islamic jihadists to impose... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054789/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:16:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054706/posts Sen. John McCain's growing popularity among women is fueling speculation that he will selecta female running mate, ripening talk about conservative favorite Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, and former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina, one of his top economic advisers. Political pundits, election strategists and even some Democrats say putting a dynamic woman on the Republican ballot would tip independents, especially the "security moms" who helped President Bush win re-election in 2004. "If McCain picked a woman, it would certainly get the attention and perhaps votes of some Democrats and a number of independents who supported Hillary Clinton," said... washingtontimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054706/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:34:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049935/posts Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. are outraged over remarks made last Friday by Bud Day, a key supporter of John McCain. Day, a much-decorated Air Force Colonel and Medal of Honor recipient who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam with McCain, said during a conference call organized by the Florida Republican Party that “the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they’re going to kill us.” Day added: “I don’t intend to kneel, and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.” The reaction was swift. Saif Ishoof, president of... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049935/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:14:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046401/posts Cost of Government Day By Grover Norquist This year Americans have worked until today, July 16, to pay for the total costs of federal, state and local government. This is 197 days of the year consuming 53.9 percent of national income. Over the past 22 years, in only four years (1982, 1983, 1991 and 1992) did Cost of Government Day fall later in the year. Federal spending will consume 83.7 days. State and local spending will consume 50.5 days effort. Federal regulations cost 4l.7 days and State regulations cost 20.9 days. The spending data is precise, the regulatory burdens are... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046401/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:22:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025577/posts Norquist's Muslim Protégés By Paul Sperry FrontPageMagazine.com | 6/3/2008 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government. While he's managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren't buying their makeover. Last November, his crony Faisal M. Gill lost a bid for a seat in the Virginia state legislature. Now another protege, Kamal M. Nawash,... FrontPageMagazine.com | 6/3/2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025577/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:30:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025331/posts If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government. While he’s managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren’t buying their makeover. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025331/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:57:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025229/posts If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the strategy of GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist in his wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government. While he's managed to get some of his Muslim proteges jobs in the Bush administration, getting them elected to public office has been another story. Voters aren't buying their makeover. Last November, his crony Faisal M. Gill lost a bid for a seat in the Virginia state legislature. Now another protege, Kamal M. Nawash, has lost his third political race in seven years.... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025229/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020806/posts A former California Republican Party official's false-arrest lawsuit against U.S. immigration authorities has been thrown out of court. A federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., ruled last month that immigration officers did nothing wrong when they jailed Michael Kamburowski, 35, on a deportation warrant in 2004, three years before he was hired as chief operating officer for the California GOP. Kamburowski, an Australian citizen, had sued in 2005, seeking $5 million damages from the government. The lawsuit was pending when state party chief Ron Nehring hired him in March 2007 to oversee the state party's finances, but party officials said they... SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020806/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 19:39:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997693/posts ABCNews’ Mary Bruce Reports: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is actively courting the Vice Presidential nomination, according to Republican Strategist Dan Senor. “Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this,” Senor said this morning on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” According to Senor, Rice has been cozying up to the Republican elite. “There's this ritual in Washington, the Americans for Tax Reform, which is headed by Grover Norquist, he holds a weekly meeting of conservative leaders, about 100, 150 people, sort of inside, chattering, class types,” Senor explained. “They all typically get briefings from political conservative... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997693/posts#comment Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:20:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995597/posts On the campaign trail last week, Sen. John McCain declared at least three times that the Republican Party is "united." But is it? Some prominent conservatives say they remain disenchanted with the party's likely nominee. Sen. McCain isn't doing enough to persuade them of his conservative credentials, they say, or win them over to his side. Although the sentiment among conservative leaders is that they will vote for Sen. McCain come November, they aren't thrilled about the prospect. "I hear a good deal of rumbling from conservatives," said Alfred Regnery, publisher of the conservative American Spectator magazine. Mr. Regnery said... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995597/posts#comment Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:54:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973988/posts A former California Republican Party official who resigned last year in a controversy over his immigration status had no valid visa or work permit during his high-profile career as a Washington lobbyist for conservative icon Grover Norquist..... Michael Kamburowski, an Australian citizen who served briefly as chief operating officer of the state GOP, worked from 1995 to 2000 as a vice president of Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, D.C., an organization headed by Norquist - an architect of modern conservatism who has advised President Bush and top GOP political leaders. For Norquist, Kamburowski lobbied Congress on dozens of issues,... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973988/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:33:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971591/posts LEADING Republicans believe they can trounce Barack Obama in the presidential election by tarring him as a shady Chicago socialist. They are increasingly confident that his campaign could collapse by the time their attack machine has finished with him. Grover Norquist, an influential conservative tax reform lobbyist, said: “Barack Obama has been able to create his own image and introduce himself to voters, but the swing voters in a general election are not paying attention yet. He is open to being defined as a leftwing, corrupt Chicago politician.” TIMES ONLINE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971591/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:11:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963055/posts WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has long aroused almost unanimous opposition from the leaders of the right. Accusing him of crimes against conservative orthodoxy like voting against a big tax cut and opposing a federal ban on same-sex marriage, conservative activists have agitated for months to thwart his Republican presidential primary campaign. That, however, was before he emerged this week as the party’s front-runner. Since his victory in the Florida primary, the growing possibility that Mr. McCain may carry the Republican banner in November is causing anguish to the right. Some, including James C. Dobson and Rush Limbaugh, say it... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963055/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:03:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951304/posts <p>Grover Norquist, president of the influential group Americans for Tax Reform told The Brody File today that while he has some reservations about Mike Huckabee's past record on taxes, he also is comfortable with Huckabee's present actions and thinks, "we should accept converts."  Read the quotes from him below.</p> CBNnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951304/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:41:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924043/posts Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, has launched an attack on GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson for Thompson's refusal to sign Norquist's pledge against raising taxes. Team Fred spokeswoman Karen Hanretty explained her candidate's position in an e-mail: Fred Thompson’s record of cutting taxes and pushing for reform speaks for itself. This is the approach he will take as president. He is bound by that principle and does not make a practice of signing pledges. That answer was not good enough for Grover the Security Pushover (more on that further down the column), who told Ronald Kessler of... Admiral's Chair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924043/posts#comment Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:28:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923365/posts Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, has launched an attack on GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson for Thompson's refusal to sign Norquist's pledge against raising taxes. Team Fred spokeswoman Karen Hanretty explained her candidate's position in an e-mail: Fred Thompson’s record of cutting taxes and pushing for reform speaks for itself. This is the approach he will take as president. He is bound by that principle and does not make a practice of signing pledges. That answer was not good enough for Grover the Security Pushover (more on that further down the column), who told Ronald Kessler of... Conscience of a Conservatarian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923365/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:27:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923044/posts Reform Group: Thompson Would Hike Taxes Thursday, November 8, 2007 3:05 PMBy: Ronald Kessler When it comes to taxes, Fred Thompson is the "worst" of the Republican presidential candidates, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, tells Newsmax. GOP hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have both promised not to raise taxes - Romney even signing an ATR pledge not to raise the marginal tax rate. Thompson, on the other hand, has not signed the pledge and has said high-income Medicare beneficiaries may have to pay more for coverage. “Thompson didn’t sign the pledge as a senator, and... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923044/posts#comment Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:10:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887719/posts The Bush administration has decided to defer the start of a new security screening program for thousands of officials of organizations seeking funds from the Agency for International Development until it reviews all the comments from those affected, according to USAID's acting deputy administrator, James Kunder. Although USAID said in a Federal Register notice last month that the program would become effective yesterday, Kunder said that it "would be effective, but not operational" until there is "a systematic review" of the views of the private organizations involved. The screening plan would affect top officials and board members of foreign aid... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887719/posts#comment Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:04:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/848113/posts Conservatives Fight Over Islam Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com Thursday, Feb. 20, 2003 WASHINGTON – A fierce, nearly three-week running battle of accusations and counter-accusations between two conservative icons has brought to the front burner a long-festering debate among President Bush’s supporters on how far the White House should go in seeking Islamic support. Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy and a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, has accused two White House officials – Ali Talbah and his predecessor Sukhail Khan – of putting President Bush in the company of “people who have made no... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/848113/posts#comment Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:19:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860301/posts The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running. Over the next year, the cost of the no-bid arrangement with consultant Booz Allen Hamilton soared by millions of dollars per month, as the firm provided analysts, administrators and other contract employees to the department's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection offices. By December 2004, payments to Booz Allen had exceeded $30 million -- 15 times the contract's original value. When department lawyers examined the deal, they found it was "grossly beyond the scope" of... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860301/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jul 2007 17:22:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1859359/posts Islamisation of David Keene, American Conservative Union June 27, 2007 David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), has been moving, along with several other paleo-conservatives like Dinesh D’Souza, towards a partnership with Saudi-funded, pro-Hamas institutions. A forewarning was the appointment of Grover Norquist to the ACU board. A second forewarning was the appointment of Suhail Khan to the ACU board. Then Tuesday, David Keene joined United for Peace and Justice, the ACLU, the Communist Party-USA, as a speaker in the “Day of Action to Restore Law and Justice” to “…call on Congress to restore habeas corpus, fix the... Vigilant Freedom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1859359/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:01:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857666/posts THE GOP has a guy problem. Even after Veep Dick Cheney shot a friend in a hunting accident, he still hunts. In California, GOP biggies injure their comrades in a less ballistic manner. State party chairman Ron Nehring is under fire for handpicking an Australian immigrant -- who was ordered deported in 2001, was jailed on visa violations in 2004 and has filed a $5 million wrongful arrest lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security -- to be the party's chief operations officer. Under Nehring, the party also sought an H-1B visa so that a Canadian citizen could serve... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857666/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:32:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856076/posts State Republican Chairman Ron Nehring has the distinction of being the first California Party State leader to go outside the United States to hire people to run the State Republican Party. Moreover, there appears to be a prima facie case that he has hired people to run the California Republican Party that may be illegal aliens or people who have fraudulently secured work papers, or both. There are two men, an Australian and a Canadian. We will discuss the Canadian in another installment. First, there is Australian citizen Michael Kamburowski – who runs the day-to-day Party for Nehring. He says... Calnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856076/posts#comment Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:34:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846122/posts WASHINGTON --The head of a Republican environmental advocacy group is set to plead guilty in the Jack Abramoff scandal and is cooperating with an FBI investigation into corruption involving Congress and the Bush administration, two people close to the case said Wednesday. Italia Federici served as a go-between for Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist, and J. Steven Griles, the deputy interior secretary during President Bush's first term, prosecutors said Wednesday in documents charging her with tax evasion and obstructing a Senate inquiry into the Abramoff scandal. Under a deal with the Justice Department, she must cooperate with authorities and is identifying... AP-San Luis Obispo Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846122/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:29:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805040/posts In a March 3 memo, the Senior Minority Counsel on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee outlines for Sen. John Glenn (Ohio) what he hopes will be the ranking Democrat's contribution to the Asiagate investigation — 11 subpoenas on conservative activist groups. The list, since forwarded to committee chairman Fred Thompson (R., Tenn.), reads like a "Who's Who" of the conservative movement, including Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Christian Coalition, and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform. In mid March, Senate Republicans agreed to open the door to this potential harassment of their allies after a high-stakes battle over the... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805040/posts#comment Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:40:54 GMT