QOTD: Grover Norquist on impure thoughts about pink unicorns
by digby
This is interesting. Grover was on Fox this morning explaining that the Republicans who are willing to raise revenue want to massively cut entitlements but the Democrats will never agree.
“No pledge-taker has voted for a tax increase,” Norquist explained to CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Monday. “They’ve had some people discussing impure thoughts on national television.”
“However, Lindsey Graham, if you listen to him, he would support higher taxes if it was used to pay down the debt — of course, it wont be, it will be spent — if ten-to-one ratios on entitlement reform. I’ve had long conversations with Lindsey Graham and he says, ‘I would raise taxes if…’ and then he lists this incredible lists of reforms and entitlements that the Democrats would never give him.”
Norquist added: “And as I suggested to him, I said, ‘Senator, you’re offering to trade a tax increase for a pink unicorn that doesn’t exist.'”
Let’s hope it doesn’t exist.