dagblog - Comments for "is the norquist tax pledge constitutional?" http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/norquist-tax-pledge-constituional-11245 Comments for "is the norquist tax pledge constitutional?" en I agree. Please help http://dagblog.com/comment/142637#comment-142637 <a id="comment-142637"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/norquist-tax-pledge-constituional-11245">is the norquist tax pledge constitutional?</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I agree.  Please help eliminate Norquist's influence by signing and forwarding this pledge:</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/make-grover-norquists-tax-pledge-is/">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/make-grover-norquists-tax-pledge-is/</a></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:10:42 +0000 Mark C comment 142637 at http://dagblog.com Whoa and shut the front door! http://dagblog.com/comment/130585#comment-130585 <a id="comment-130585"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/130574#comment-130574">A friend drew this for me</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Whoa and shut the front door! I like it. The little house is worried and hanging on for dear life. I'm seeing a deck of cards.</p> <p>College tuition.</p> <p>Roads and Bridges.</p> <p>Medical Research.</p> <p>And a game called, "Go Cut"</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:57:48 +0000 Oxy Mora comment 130585 at http://dagblog.com A friend drew this for me http://dagblog.com/comment/130574#comment-130574 <a id="comment-130574"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/130536#comment-130536">Thanks, Tuxedocat. The money</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A friend drew this for me after I explained the concept.  The dollar sign on the moneybag is backwards, but so is the economy.</p> <p class="rtecenter"> </p> <p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" height="230" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v213/Spenser23/seesaw1a.jpg" style="width: 393px; height: 236px" width="612" /></p> </div></div></div> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:16:54 +0000 MrSmith1 comment 130574 at http://dagblog.com That's where the tea party is http://dagblog.com/comment/130538#comment-130538 <a id="comment-130538"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/130528#comment-130528">It all goes back to original</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>That's where the tea party is headed. First, they have to fight the civil war over again, which is why Rick Perry is announcing his run at the birth place of the Secession.  </p> </div></div></div> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:02:58 +0000 Oxy Mora comment 130538 at http://dagblog.com Thanks, Tuxedocat. The money http://dagblog.com/comment/130536#comment-130536 <a id="comment-130536"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/130521#comment-130521">Isn&#039;t a legislators</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Thanks, Tuxedocat.  The money conned from foreign interests needs to be put into the equation. I didn't know that Norquist switched from Indian tribes in the U.S. to tribes in the Middle East.   </p> <p>Re constituents, legislators should be confronted with,for example, poll numbers from their own districts showing the support for taxes on those making over $250K, which nationally is about 70%.</p> <p>  </p> </div></div></div> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:54:01 +0000 Oxy Mora comment 130536 at http://dagblog.com It all goes back to original http://dagblog.com/comment/130528#comment-130528 <a id="comment-130528"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/130521#comment-130521">Isn&#039;t a legislators</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>It all goes back to original intent. See, when the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, <em>people</em> was understood to mean "white men with land".</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:28:28 +0000 Verified Atheist comment 130528 at http://dagblog.com Isn't a legislators http://dagblog.com/comment/130521#comment-130521 <a id="comment-130521"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/norquist-tax-pledge-constituional-11245">is the norquist tax pledge constitutional?</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Isn't a legislators responsibility to his/her constituents, <em>we the people</em>, and not to some guy and his foreign friends? I would posit that Norquist's outside interests (mainly in Saudi Arabia), and the republicans loyalty to those interests (via the pledge), hedges very near what I would call treason.</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:43:16 +0000 tuxedocat comment 130521 at http://dagblog.com Ha! I think you're right. http://dagblog.com/comment/130471#comment-130471 <a id="comment-130471"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/130431#comment-130431">I was under the impression</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Ha! I think you're right.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:16:40 +0000 Oxy Mora comment 130471 at http://dagblog.com I was under the impression http://dagblog.com/comment/130431#comment-130431 <a id="comment-130431"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/130376#comment-130376">Now Peracles, don&#039;t go</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I was under the impression that they'd already f$@ked it.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:59:32 +0000 Verified Atheist comment 130431 at http://dagblog.com Bravo. The SeeSaw effect. http://dagblog.com/comment/130382#comment-130382 <a id="comment-130382"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/130378#comment-130378">Perhaps linking lowering</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Bravo. The SeeSaw effect. That cuts ice. In fact, the Tea Party is really the SeeSaw Party.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:29:20 +0000 Oxy Mora comment 130382 at http://dagblog.com