Grover Norquist: "The Senate got reelected because they never voted on anything, it was the only way they were able to get reelected."
Norquist was a unique guest on the latest edition of "This Week With George Stephanopoulos". It was first time on a national media talk-show. Despite some slight unease, he introduced serious issues into the discussion, including the Obamacare taxes which will hit middle and working class Americans on January 2, 2013.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, the editor for the debt-laden "The Nation", struck a combative blow right after Norquist answered the first question. She refused to let go of the empty liberal canard of the rich who must pay "their fair share".
The biggest whopper out of Vanden Heuvel's mouth: "the military is the greatest source of waste and fraud."
The "entitlements" are the greatest source of waste, fraud, debt, and deficits in this country. The Cato Institute has articulated a block-grant reform which would end the waste and fraud in transfer from the federal government to the states. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) provided a program which aggressively staunches the rampant rape and pillaging of these programs while requiring recipients to pay a little more.
Norquist's greatest insight, besides reminding everyone that the House Republican majority passed a budget twice, probed the real reason that the Senate remained in Democratic hands: "they did nothing"
That's right, they did nothing. They have not passed a budget, they have not crossed the aisle to cobble together spending cuts, entitlements, or budget reforms of any kind. The majority leader has refused to deal on anything. The Republicans offered the STEM Jobs act for immigration reform, and the bill lingers in the Senate.
The Democrats won in Washington because they did nothing.