Americans for Tax Reform

“They were massively outspent in both states,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, “and it always takes a few tries to win these things.”

On Capitol Hill right now, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is moderating a bicameral “response” to President Obama’s health care push, which heads to ABC News for a TV special tonight. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) are promoting their own health care plans; Rick Scott, the controversial multimillionaire who [...]

Just two weeks ago, Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s trying to replace retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), signed a pledge promising not to raise taxes.
Yesterday he signed a budget that did just that.

I talked briefly to former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) last night, before he addressed the inaugural meeting of Young Americans for Western Civilization, a new paleoconservative group.
“They absolutely did anything they could to stop me from coming here,” said Tancredo. “They hated the idea. That’s been the way they’ve done this for the last five [...]

I could not shake the sense that Rick Santelli, CNBC’s Angry Man, was going through the same media cycle that Joe Wurzelbacher was. So, at an Americans for Tax Reform luncheon today, I asked Wurzelbacher if he agreed with Santelli’s appearance last week, in which Santelli blasted the mortgage rescue plan and saying that there [...]