Political Factoid
In last-minute 2012 "fiscal cliff"
negotiations, the Senate Minority
leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
suddenly injected an unbalanced
deal-breaking monkey wrench.
It was as though Grover Norquist, the
increasingly aggressive blackmailer
and dictator of Republican tax policy,
had gotten to McConnell*
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-- with Norquist's threat to "primary"
McConnell if any tax increase on the
wealthy passed.
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