{"id":2079,"date":"2007-01-29T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/picking-nits\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T18:49:43","slug":"picking-nits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/picking-nits\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Nits"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>I was shocked to hear Newt, er, Nit Romney say Grover Norquist&#8217;s name without gagging. You can judge a man by whose ass he kisses. Norquist is a paragon of Republican ideals: inflame the masses while serving the rich. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=104&#038;STORY=\/www\/story\/01-03-2007\/0004499364&#038;EDATE=\">Romney, Brownback Sign Taxpayer Protection Pledge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America needs leaders who are committed to protecting taxpayers, and signing our Pledge demonstrates that kind of leadership,&#8221; said Grover Norquist, president of ATR. &#8220;By signing the Pledge, Sam Brownback and Mitt Romney demonstrate allegiance to <strong class=\"highlight\">hard-working taxpayers<\/strong> nationwide. It is now up to the other candidates in the race to stand up to the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-na-assess24jan24,1,461392.story?coll=la-news-a_section\">Bush tries to regain footing &#8211; Los Angeles Times<\/a> By Janet Hook, Times Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing good or useful that can be passed out of this Congress in the next two years,&#8221; said Grover Norquist<\/strong>, a Bush ally and president of Americans for Tax Reform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB116969100575587100-xmhyV5Nts2GBEUw9o4X25gg0sWA_20070223.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top\">Bush&#8217;s Conservative Base Frets Key Issues Are Losing Focus &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> By JACKIE CALMES<\/p>\n<p>[T]he early frontrunners among Republicans &#8212; Arizona Sen. John McCain, former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney &#8212; all have problems among conservatives. The two Republican aspirants with the most appeal are Kansas&#8217;s Republican Sen. Sam Brownback and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked to hear Newt, er, Nit Romney say Grover Norquist&#8217;s name without gagging. You can judge a man by whose ass he kisses. Norquist is a paragon of Republican ideals: inflame the masses while serving the rich. mjh Romney, Brownback Sign Taxpayer Protection Pledge &#8220;America needs leaders who are committed to protecting taxpayers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/picking-nits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Picking Nits<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}