demands in other words republicans are choosing grover norquist. over our founding fathers. according to the article six of the constitution members of congress shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the constitution that oath reads i do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic and that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i am about to enter so help me god but two hundred seventy nine republicans in congress have taken another rose oath as the americans for tax reform both the taxpayer protection pledge. pledge to the taxpayers of the state of blank and the american people that i will one oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rate for individuals and businesses and to oppose any net reduction or a limitation of deductions and credits unless matched dollar

how you will do that and know that when you put it back, it will be called a tax increase and grover norquistunning the earth in his white rose will call it a tax increase and 95% of the republicans will be terrified what can grover do to you? he cannot defeat for reelection. -- he can defeat for reelection. if that means more to you and your country and patriotism you should not be in congress. host: a reaction? guest: alan simpson was the obama appointment to run a commission to come up with tax increases and supposed to be spending reductions. that commission never put anything in legislative writing nothing. paul ryan, the republican congressman from wisconsin, was on that commission and read the outline and said this is a $2 trillion tax increase. the spending cuts are iffy and not written down so he voted against it for the republicans in the house actually passed a budget that paul ryan developed which, over the next decade on like obama's budget, reduces $6 trillion of obama's overspending, does not raise taxes, it reduces through tax reform and taking the corporate rate down to 25% t

grover norquist will call it a tax increase. 95 percent and other republicans will be terrified. what can grover do to you ? the only thing he can do is defeat you for reelection or put a primary opponent against you. if that means more to you than your country and patriotism, you should not even be in congress. host: reaction to alan simpson? guest: he was appointed to come up with tax increases and spending reductions. that commission never put anything in legislative writing. it is in outline form. paul ryan was on that commission. he read the outline and said, this is a true trillion dollar tax increase. -- 82 trillion dollar tax increase. -- a 4$2 trillion dollarn tax increase. this takes the corporate rate down to 25% to make us more competitive with the rest of the world. that is a budget that all but four of the republicans voted for. the democrats have not passed a budget in three years. when alan simpson says, what would you do? the republicans in congress have passed a budget that reduces spending from 25% down to 20. it and does the damage of the obama early years and

it was by the anti-tax ideologue grover norquist.listen to this excerpt. >> we are not auditioning for fearless leader. we don't need a president to tell us what direction to go -- we just need a president to sign this stuff. we don't need someone to think it up or design it. we have a house and a senate. the leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the house and the senate so focus on electing the most conservative republican who can win in each house seat, and the most conservative republican who can win in each senate seat. and then pick a republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the united states. >> now, what grover norquist is saying is that it doesn't really matter who the president is. we, the conservatives, the party, being elected in all of these house and senate races will tell the president what to do and all he needs to do is to sign the legislation we pass. is it conceivable to you that they don't want anyone with a vision or capa

grover norquist ocala a tax increase. -- and grover norquist will call it a tax increase. grover cannot do anything to you. the only thing he can do is defeat you in re-election. if that means more to you than your country, you should not be in congress. host: your reaction to alan simpson. guest: he is obama's appointment to run the commission to come up with tax increases that are supposed to be spending reductions. that commission never put anything in the this letter writing. paul ryan, the republican congressman from wisconsin was on the commission. he read the outline and said that this is a $2 trillion tax increase. and the spending cuts are iffy and they're not written down. so he voted against it. the republicans in the house actually passed a budget that paul ryan developed which over the next decade -- a light obama's budget -- reduces $6 trillion dollars of obama's overspending, does not raise taxes, allows for tax reform, taking the individual corporate rate down to bring as competitive with the rest of the world. all but four republicans voted for. the senate

. >> thank you. [ applause ] >>> next, americans for tax reform candidate, grover norquist. he talked about the characteristics needed in the republican candidate for president. >> grover norquist. president of the american tax reform. >> fellow freedom fighters, fellow americans, i repeat myself, because that's what it means to be an american, to be focused on liberty for ourselves and for everyone in the country and by example, everyone in the world. three years ago, obama and reid and pelosi came into washington. they had a vision. they wanted to dramatically increase spending and they did from 20% of the economy up to 25% out of washington alone. $4 trillion in debt. their plan was to turn us into something between france and greece and on a bad day, chicago. and they were adamant. they had a theory when they piled up all of this spending and debt. it is called kanzian economics. if the country takes a dollar and gives it to one of obama's friends and solyndra, there is more money in the economy. they are richer. you can see where obama, reid and pelosi stand on one side

i mean, would you want to be a republican running in a republican primary where grover norquist comes in and says, this guy must be defeated because he violated the pledge? or he refused to sign the pledge? members of the tea party don't know anything else. that guy's history. we saw during the 2010 campaign these tea party people are capable and perfectly willing to defeat incumbent republicans even at the cost of having that seat go to the democrats. you saw guys like robert bennett in utah who is no liberal by any means. >> the epitome of the conservative stalwart. >> he wasn't conservative enough. so they tossed him out. republicans lost seats in places like colorado and delaware where the tea party people were so insi insistent that these rhino republicans, that stands for republican in name only -- there is nothing worse you can be called, but there are other groups, as well. the club for growth has been extraordinarily important. they ensure that there will always be unlimited financing available to anybody who runs against a rhino, against a tax pledge breaker who are somebody

>> it's run by a friend of mine named grover norquist, and the thing is it doesn't do anything that has to do with tax reform. they support every single special tax deal that anybody ever proposes, especially if you're a republican, slopgz it lowers taxes. they say that's okay. loopholes, anything that's a loophole is fine with them, as long as it lowers taxes. but once the loophole gets put in, you cannot ever take it out again because that's a tax increase. i think this is just ludicrous. >> jon: and the rhetoric is so competing, there's this rhetoric of we have a terrible debt and deficit problem in this country. it is unmessengerrable. unmanageable. it has put our children and grandchildren's children into slavery. they will be starring in the indiana jones movie. and, yet, the tax bite in this country is the lowest it's been, especially for the upper income groups, since the 1950s. >> that's exactly correct. taxes as awe share of the g.d.p., have not been-- are at the loeft they've been in my lift, and, obviously, i'm not such a young guy. >> jon: stop it! stop it! ( laughter ) you

someone said the of the grover norquist may be the most powerful person in america. the new pledge he has held canada is to. he has held candidates -- the new pledge he has held the new candidates to is keeping millions -- it has a role to play in a country rich in the land grant colleges, highways, bridges. i understand the bridge out here is about to be built. i am all for infrastructure. >> obama in a way has to be the luckiest politician. if you look at the republican lineup -- [laughter] it is like michael dukakis in an oversized tank hat. >> the idea that newt gingrich is now at the top of the heap. >> you do not want to be the top because they get shot out. >> it is seems like anybody but romney. >> herman cain is a breath of fresh air. [laughter] >> i am not going to reassess him as he reassesses his campaign. >> herman cain is fabulous. >> newt gingrich -- i am going to get serious on you. newt gingrich is an error lobbyist -- uber lobbyist. barney frank talk about michele bachmann. he also called out newt gingrich and said he held him responsible for the de

grover norquist wonder did and he said ronald reagan is my hero. i said i know ronald reagan and you know robbery in. i said ronald reagan raised taxes 11 times it is eight years. grover said, i know, i did not like that. i said, why do you think he did? he did it to make the country run. we never have less revenue to run this country since the korean war. 15.2% of gdp. you don't need to do a tax increase. cohen and dig into the pile of tax expenditures and jerk some of those babies out of there and go to any tax system. caller: you are one of my heroes. what do you consider to be full employment in the united states? guest: i cannot play the game. think of the young people coming into the workforce. host: what percentage would you be comfortable with? guest: you can do the figures all day long, bounce them back and forth. pick a figure during reagan's time 4%. i was in congress 18 years and never saw a statistic that was correct about growth or unemployment. it is like health care. 10,000 people a day or turning 65. if you say the present unemploym

including remarks from 2008 republican nominee sarah palin and americans for tax reform president grover norquist. first up, the tea party and occupy wall street. we have amy kramer and kevin jackson. >> i'm going to start talking about our panelists. the first is a good friend of mine. i spent long hours in the back of buses. she is one of the original founders of the atlanta tea party. [ applause ] >> thank you, dustin. >> join the tea party express pac as director of grass roots and coalitions. now she is one of the most recognizable faces of the tea party movement. she does an unbelievable job. amy kramer. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> our next panelist is kevin jackson s jackson. he is author of "the big black lie." [ applause ] >> and he founded the black sphere blog. kevin has been featured on the "glenn beck program" and "rush limbaugh program." he say radio show host and he is frequent guest on a variety of national shows. kevin writes his almost daily blog and is a syndicated writer. he contributes to big government and human events and an environmental thinker. he will entertain you gu

now, grover norquist was brilliant in exploiting the psychology of sacredness in making them sign this pledge. even if many of them knew in their heart it was the wrong thing to do, we're so concerned about our poll numbers, we're so concerned about what people think of us, any candidate that said, "no, i'm not going to sign," you can bet norquist was going to hold his feet to the fire. and now they're stuck. and you get that crazy scene in that republican debate, "if you could work out a deal, $10 of spending cuts for every one dollar of tax increases, would you take it?" >> say you had a deal, a real spending cuts deal, 10 to one as byron said. spending cuts to tax increases. speaker you're already shaking your head. but who on this stage would walk away from that deal? can you raise your hand if you feel so strongly about not raising taxes you'd walk away on the 10 to one deal? >> it's straight out of all the conformity experiments in social psychology. it's-- you don't want to look, you don't want to be the one who stands up and is different. it's a lot of conformity pressure. a li

also, grover norquist, and the cpac presidential straw poll, and then former alaska governor sarah palinill speak. the comments of rick santorum earlier today. he said he is the only true conservative running today. >> life is so much fun. there is a bar a couple doors down, and recently a conservative, a liberal, and margaret -- and a moderate walked in. people asked why i support rick santorum. i have known him for 16 years. he is competitive, he is a fighter. what a nice contrast in the debate that had the authenticity average santorum with the all audacity of that correct president. he has the three rungs of the reagan stool. i do not agree with him because of all his policies. i cannot move him to all my positions. here is why i support him. not only does he have the best chance to win, but maybe the only chance of winning. we cannot continue to support these experienced war horses, these veterans. it did not work with bob dole. democrats bring in these fresh faces, clinton and carter out of nowhere. they bilked -- they bring in obama from nowhere. rick santorum was described -- new

show or first your comments and i comes from facebook in response to our story this week about grover norquist calling for the impeachment of president obama dave argues in peace with. it's not a coup d'etat that's a gross misinterpretation the or misrepresentation the constitution lays out what the various branches of government can do and if those rules are violated impeachment is a viable solution every single president since including wilson should to face this but that's another discussion altogether well yeah that is another discussion altogether especially considering that every president since jimmy carter. literally every since every president since jimmy carter has started their own new war without the approval of congress carter was the last one not to but this isn't about impeachment this is about the very very wealthy in america doing whatever they can to make sure their taxes don't go up short of marching army into washington d.c. like the oligarchy conspired to do in one nine hundred thirty four i personally believe we live in a revolutionary times right now in america and the c

surtax on people who make over a million bucks you know republicans most of whom have signed grover norquist pledge to not raise taxes on anybody or saying no absolutely not chief economist at moody's mark zandi said quote not extending these programs will deliver a significant blow to the still tentative economy so when it comes either helping the when it comes to helping the economy one hundred sixty million americans or protecting millionaires and billionaires from a tiny tax increase why are the republicans choosing the millionaires and billionaires in this in this issue well i think the fact that this tax cut you know went down to two percent in december of two thousand and ten and we saw no no market improvement in the economy whatsoever we did you will see one no improvement on the balance of consecutive job growth in the private sector is improvement i'm just a little bit maybe didn't keep up with the with new entrants into that well what i mean a lot of one million while we see meanwhile we see a declining labor force people leaving the job market because they're so discouraged by t

rather than just trying to kick the investor square in the fanny tom ok so you do you agree with grover norquist that raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires is an impeachable offense. it should be. ok. your argument if i recall our previous conversations about the reason why people receiving their income sitting on the bottom around the pool waiting for the dividend checks to arrive is is maximally taxed at fifteen percent rather than the thirty five percent that warren buffett's secretary makes is because it's double taxation because the corporation pays taxes on their income before they distribute their dividends so they're right well let's only part of it tom i would remind you that if warren buffett work see pays the top rate as well but remember these super investors that you're talking about they really walk in lockstep with the government they are responsible for much of the opportunity and taxing them onerous taxation will quite a quite literally grind our economy to a halt you know this is ministration has basically to leave if you say most of us are yes sir if warren buffett ca