We've been dealing with this asshole since 1985

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68. I think Grover is being set up.

Norquist has been on TV all weekend long. In the meantime, they've all been talking about this "fiscal cliff" horse shit.

It is amusing to see CNN make a big deal out of this and speculate on the upcoming "negotiations," when those negotiations were already concluded two years ago and now the federal budget is going to automatically receive a huge infusion of tax revenue while making billions in defense industry cuts.

That is what the President and Congressional Democrats are going to achieve if they do nothing at all. Does anyone seriously think Republicans are going to give away more than that? Of course not. They're trying to "negotiate" away the baseball bat we're going to beat them down with.

No backroom dealing is going to give back Grover's tax cuts for the rich. They're going to expire according to a firm timetable made in a prior, air-tight agreement. The President has already promised to veto anything Congress does to extend them, and they won't have the votes to override the veto.

That is the starting line Republicans will have to meet in order to negotiate any other compromise, and we all know they're not even going to seriously try, just like they couldn't seriously try during the debt ceiling negotiations.

Instead, just like the last times, the Republicans are going to hold the middle class tax cuts hostage, and wind up making sure those expire, too.

And then, after Republicans have gone out of their way to raise taxes on everyone, through hostage-taking, double-dealing, false negotiation, and incompetence, what's the media going to do? Invite Grover to come back on and promise to run a primary challenger in every Republican district, as he has so direly promised to do for 25 years?

I don't know. Maybe. But my guess is that the GOP will destroy him long before he has a chance to do that. Grover is a very, very dirty guy, and in the past he escaped criminal prosecution only thanks to a favorable political environment, which he does not enjoy any longer.

It looks to me like his romp through pundit-land this weekend is a setup designed to first raise his visibility, so that he can be more thoroughly wrecked in two months. The real question is which way they're going to destroy Norquist, because they have a fielder's choice of crimes to pursue and expose (which they can easily do because they of course were in on it with him the whole time): money laundering, blackmail and/or extortion, or lobbying for terrorists.