in fact, it will keep their pledge to grover norquist.he cliff in january, the pledge to grover will require, require all republicans to vote for the president's tax bill, because it will then be a cut of most income tax brackets. the treasury department is right now making plans for what will happen on the tax withholding tables on your first paycheck in january after we go off the cliff and all the income tax rates go up. the strategists at the white house and the treasury and the democratic leadership in congress believe that if we go off the cliff, they will then the be able to pass the democratic bill that cuts all of the tax rates back to where they are now, except those top tax rates and they'll be able to do that in a matter of days. the tax writing committee in the senate knows how to do this virtually instantaneously so nothing, nothing can give the democrats more power over tax policy than going off the cliff. you might see a few more bucks withheld from your january paycheck, maybe your first paycheck, but when congress then q

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meet grover norquist.x reform, whose mission statement is, "the government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax. we believe that that power should be minimized." that's right, the most powerful man in america who does not sleep in the white house is losing it. he is being driven crazy by republican senator tom coburn, who decided to do these two things in this order. number one, not run for re-election. and number two, go to war with grover norquist. i have praised senator coburn's choice to take on grover in this space a couple of times before. and today in "the new york times," coburn wrote an op-ed piece attacking grover once again. then grover made the mistake of responding in an interview with the hill, in which he inadvertently revealed just how batcrap crazy he is now. here is how he explained his fight with coburn to the hill, word for word. i defy you to make any sense of this at all. "it is like a couple that is having a fight, and one of them tries to drag a third party in

i happen to have tumbled upon this because i wound up renting space from grover norquist for seven long years and witnessed firsthand what i'm about to show you in terms of the influence operation that began during that period, went at the george w. bush 2000 campaign and then the bush administration, again, setting the precedence in terms of personnel, policy and practices that are metastasizing today. next slide. another gang of six. you've already been introduced to abdel rahman al marudi. let me go through some photographs of the next. next slide. well, this is al marudi with governor bush and next slide. this is khaled saffuri, his right-hand man and nihad awad who runs one of the most aggressive muslim brotherhood fronts c.a.r.e. in the summer of 2001. this is another convicted terrorist running at the time of this photograph in march of 2000 the palestinian-islamic jihad organization. next slide. muslim al sadiqquey, the imam presenting the president a koran in the white house shortly after 9/11. next slide. this chap. he worked in the white house for most of 2001. he was the mus

it's interesting, i remember when he was going after grover norquist. and that was condemned by a number of conservatives. there wasn't much there, but he was alleging grover norquist was basically trying to kind of get the muslim brotherhood infiltrating the american conservative movement. >> yeah. absolutely. he's been going after governor norquist for almost a decade. he doesn't care. he'll go after republicans, he will go after democrats. he went after bush administration officials. he said the head of the cia had submitted to sharia law. so she is really shameless and he's been driven out of the elite in the conservative movement in addition to cpac and the american conservative union board, which includes john bolton and the head of the nra. real staunch conservatives. he was kicked out of a strategy lun lunch. but there's kind of an interesting dynamic of the tea party versus the establishment. where while he's persona nongrata with the establishment, people like michele bachmann and adam west and other congressmen still listen to him. he still h

n norquist, he asked republican candidates to take a pledge not to raise taxes. but gaffney has said that norquist is helping the brotherhood infiltrate the conservative movement. those allegations got gaffney barred from cpac. the american conservative union, by the way, investigated his allegations against reverend norquist and found them, quote, false, unfounded and resolved. quote, its complete confidence in the loyalty of suhail khan, a bush department official, and grover norquist to the united states. he's the intellectual i were inspiration behind the allegations. what makes senator john mccain's statement frankly so bold is other members of congress have been silent or kind of supportive. mike rogers, who chairs the house select committee on intelligence. let me repeat that. he's the chairman of the committee. here's what he said on frank gaffney's radio show, seeming to buy into the muslim infiltration theory, editing fbi training materials to remove language that was anti-muslim. >> michele bachmann is kind of taking the lead on this particular issue a

the norquist pledge, grover norqui norquist, americans for tax reform, a pledge signed by virtually everylican in the house which says you will not support any net new tax increases if you need emergency short-term spending because your economy is going down the tank again, you risk grover norquist and his people campaigning against you. why is that acceptable in our dynamic economy and our democracy? why can't we tell people stop with the pledges, go in there and make the necessary deals that have to be done. i'm not asking you as a conservative. this is something liberals and conservatives need to do. democrats and republicans have to move on this. >> the reason i think guys like grover put that pledge out there and another -- politicians follow that pledge, because the historical perspective you give a dollar to the government it finds a dollar in spending. find ways to spend that dollar. grover i would assume, don't want to speak for him, we've got to cut off the spigot, the funding of government. you are right, it doesn't allow for basically emergencies. we've arrived at two emergenc

massive military or republicans able to break their promise to multimillionaire lobbyist grover norquist in order to protect their defense industry donors and all across america record high temperatures and a lack of rain are causing a nightmare for our nation's farmers and our agriculture industry just how badly has the largest drought in decades hurting our food supply and is this a glimpse of things to come in the age of global warming. you need to know this when you mention these small handful of wealthy families and pretty much own to el salvador in the reagan eighty's you often think of the infamous death squads that their right wing military government supported as tom brokaw reported in one thousand nine hundred eighty three on n.b.c.'s evening news the death squads strike could anyone most destructive working for the gross or sympathizing with them even when friends are involved most of the victims are the sons and fathers of the poor the children and husbands of these women who marched recently against gadhafi. these people routinely used rape and murder including that of child

how many people in the auence do not know who grover norquist is?raise yourands if you've never gr nis a iet. ,th mterful man in the country today. why do i say that? well, he's the one who has this organization that forces people to sign no-tax, no-revenue pledges. matyve sd, 4menrehan a nars -- enough to stop any legislation from occurring by filibuster -- have also signed. so grover norquist controls the country. heliterally controls the cotry. dve nisnoay anything wrong with being small, but he's a little guy who looks like the nerd in college -- [laughter] and iwould anticipate if he was behind a curtain, he would be exactly like the wizard of oz. [lghter] nobody everoted gover rq, dy veim y onbe t powerful, and he's a fraud. but he's a fraud that controls soimpactfully that when t corn and three other republicans signed the sowlepagng renbyimin xoolerover norquist said you violate your pledge, because eliminating a tax loophole is the equivalent of raising taxes. and tom coburn, who i probabl disagree with on 70% of stuff, as an-. tov uioic it

grover norquist's wife is a muslim.egations saying it's completely indefensible, there's nothing else to say. does it, frankly, help when people have a personal experience with prejudice or themselves have been on the receiving end of a witch hunt, that they are much more empathetic? we know this as people of color or minorities who struggle against the main stream lack of a kind of personal story and narrative, does this help? >> absolutely. look, there have been stories about for instance, elected officials even here in the state of new york who switched their vote on gay marriage because they had gay neighbors and their kids were being raised in a house full of love and that changed their position. and we saw this on people who had one position on interracial couples until they had a half black, half white grandkid. it's really refreshing for once to see our politics united against hate for a change as opposed to united in hate. and i center to say, usually congresswoman bachmann is on my list with alan keyes and oth

the circumstances change and you can't be wedded to some formula by grover norquist.er norquist, anyway, which is fighting words. >> i was expecting w. to say that. it was kind of cool, it was neat, it was massively rad being president. the interesting thing is as soon as a republican gets out of power, out of the white house, it seems that the next generation comes along and really mystifies them. george h.w. bush was mystified by the neocon hold on his son going into the iraq war. ronald reagan of course would be drummed out of the party for suggesting a 15% tax rate was too low. so there's a sort of evolution -- >> mythology is a different story. i think you're absolutely right there. this is this kind of nostalgia that is built upon corruption and amnesia. what we have to do is hold steady the notion that these guys were doing -- and lady -- were doing great things for america. we've got to deny every index that they were horrible, then we've got to reinvent them as great icons who are out of step with the bad republicans. >> i don't think the public is embracing

in a response, norquist, in a "huffington post" interview referenced bush's infamous quote -- read my no new taxes. said people don't like when politicians lie to them. >>> the tampa bay "times" reports that debra wasserman schultz said she is thinking of running for governor in 2014. >>> jill stein will be running against mitt romney again, and president obama for the first time as the 2012 green party presidential candidate. in 2002, stein was one of the candidates running against romney when he was elected massachusetts governor. >>> politico reporting presidential candidate ron paul suffered a big setback at this weekend's nebraska republican convention. he didn't get a plurality of delegate slots, which means paul's name will not be officially nominated at the gop convention in tampa next month. and "newsweek" says former alaska sarah palin with no role at the upcoming republican convention says you don't invite yourself to the big dance, the romney campaign people may be worried that palin might go rogue if she's allowed to give a speech, we'll all be watching. that's your morni

grover norquist is full of hot air and not much else. congratulations, president.o as well. >> greg: did you say read my lips? i won't raise taxes? isn't that the same president? >> dana: senator coburn in oklahoma has an on-ed saying that the left is obsessed with grover norquist so they take their eye off the ball like entitlement reform. >> bob: you can't take your eye off of him because it's tough to find him. he's only 4'2". >> kimberly: bob. here is something we knew all along was true. i.q. expert james flynn and he determined that women closed the i.q. gap. let's talk about surpassing it actually. >> eric: wait a minute. >> kimberly: scoring higher than men. "telegraph" newspaper so obviously very true. women outnumber men on college campus, hold more advanced degrees than the counterpart. thinking their i.q.s would be higher. but in the last 100 years we lagged behind because we were discriminated against. we knew itll along and now getting the credit -- >> greg: that s that written bay woman? >> kimberly: no. james flynn. hello a man. figure it out. that'

wayne lapierre is not a credit hog like grover norquist.anti-tax lobbying muscles publicly. he loves calling senators idiots. he loves taking credit for preventing any sensible tax policy in this country. wayne is a old school. wayne lapierre follows the old lobbyist playbook of never publicly taking credit for anything. every time an american mass murderer uses the right that wayne has preserved for any one in this country, including al qaeda and homicidal maniacs, to buy insane amounts of ammunition, and then that mass murderer gets huge headlines, wall-to-wall cable news coverage, and comments from the president, wayne lapierre never takes credit for any of that. never. wayne always does a kind of, ah, shucks, modesty thing and says, if i couldn't make sure that that mass murderer could get all those bullets, he would have used something else to kill all those people. talk about modesty, huh. maybe some of our mass murderers would have found another way to kill a lot of people, but we'll never know, will we? because wayne has just made i

norquist americans for tax reform we just don't know but i'm hearing a lot of things around town today as to what karl rove's donor might be let's just say some people are saying things course in real journalism you actually quote sources or you make statements of fact that's what real news does but there's this really neat technique to insert an opinion and an is the most people don't realize is something no real news organization would ever do it's called the some people say technique here's an example. some people say that this land undermine what the u.s. troops are doing there some people say some people say john kerry has some similarities to in the earlier massachusetts politician some people say in light of what's happened with the oil for food program some people say supported by iran now called news isn't really a news organization so they can get away with this and this show isn't a news show it's my opinion so let me tell you what some people are saying here in washington d.c. some people are saying that karl rove is ten million dollar anonymous donation came from iran mahm

that is what the grover norquist pledged duster republicans. 98% of them have signed that pledge.t says that you cannot close one tax loophole for the purpose of reducing the deficit. you cannot eliminate one taxpayer subsidy for an oil company to reduce the deficit. they have taken the whole issue of revenue off the table. every bipartisan group that has looked at our deficit challenge says that you have to a mix of cuts and some revenue in closing some of these loopholes and asking folks at the top to pay little more. republicans are saying we're not going to ask people making a lot available more to reduce the debts it. so they want to hit everybody else through the budget process. i mentioned seniors on medicare and children getting an education. the problem has been their refusal to take a balanced approach to cutting the deposition. as the president said, let's agree on what we can agree on. if republicans really believe we should provide tax relief to people under $250,000 a year, let's do that right now. if you want to argue about the other part later, providing tax breaks

anti-tax activist grover norquist. "washington post" associate editor bob woodward and democratic strategist hilary rosen. also this morning, a few minutes with bob costas of nbc sports, on the penn state sex abuse scandal. after this week's devastating report about who knew what, and when. >>> good morning. well you knew it was going to get nasty and here we are in this presidential fight. really the choice is by the fall, is this going to be a campaign that turns on the obama economy? or mitt romney's business record? a week ago we were talking about a bad jobs report for the president. this week, because of the obama team going on the offensive, it's all about romney's bain record. and the president is staying with it on the campaign trail yesterday in virginia. >> he invested companies that have been called pioneers of outsourcing. i don't want a pioneer in outsourcing. i want some insourcing. >> the response now, the adviser of the romney campaign ed gillespie. good to have you back. >> thanks for having me. >> so