ANYONE that would sign ANYTHING created by someone that uses ‘poopyhead” in a sentence should be ridiculed and ignored.

What I (and no doubt many others) would like to know is “WHO THE HELL IS THIS CRETIN NORQUIST WHO ISN’T EVEN AN ELECTED OFFICIAL TO DICTATE POLICY OF ANY KIND, LET ALONE A POLICY WHICH WILL IMPACT THE FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES????” Then again, who is the bigger cretin here, Norquist or those who would sign such a pledge?

Good for Chambliss. Now there’s somebody, unlike the other WIMPS, no matter what political stripe, has the GUTS, COURAGE, and BALLS to stick to his convictions here! I applaud!

At last the Republican party is coming to its senses. Hopefully more republicans will stop being afraid of Norquist and take care of the middle and lower class. The upper class takes very good care of itself, thank you very much. Republicans do not be afraid of Norquist, be afraid of the voting public. Who is Norquist anyway, does he have magical powers to punish the republicans if they do not stand by him? I do not understand his power over the Republicans. The two Democrats who signed the pledge, shame on you.

Let all the Bush taxes expire, then Obama can do his own tax plan. If the Republicans try to obstruct it, vote them out in 2014. Obama has the wedge with the recent election, the American people are sick and tired of Republicans throwing them under the bus, just because they don’t like Obama. They wanted to make him a one term president, the American people have spoken.! PERIOD!

Every President and Congressman is required to take an oath to defend the Constitution. As a part of his/her oath a Congressman also states, “I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion.”

If a Congressman signs a pledge with any individual or organization to perform (or not perform) certain acts while in office, is that a violation of his/her oath of office?

Anyone who signs “Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge” or any other pledge should instantly be impeached for putting party interest ahead of the country.

Norquist made the Republican Party a party of humanoids who were programmed to do what he said. They must not have any pride or they would have objected to being told how to vote. Maybe, some of them are getting a conscience or just afraid of the next election.

YES! …

This pledge is a violation of the oath of office and the US Constitution Art. I, Sec.8 and the XVI amendment, sec. 3, which requires the congress to lay and collect taxes, duties, impost and excises and to lay and collect taxes on incomes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. It also violates Amendment XIV, sec 4, which provides that the validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law shall not be questioned. Check out Norquist’ Islamic terrorists’ connections and ask yourselves, “why would so many elected members of our Congress align themselves with such a person?” Every one of these pledge signers should be impeached and run out of town, and Norquist should be tried for treason.

Here is another one who bites the dust. Not drinking the Kool-Aide.

This GOP-led 112th House of Representatives in Congress has already been rated as the “least productive since Herbert Hoover days”. It’s the Republicons who conspired to undermine the Obama presidency from it’s first day. The plot to obstruct, to filibuster, to block, and oppose his actions at every turn was hatched on inauguration night Jan 20, 2009 at a private dinner organized by Frank Luntz. Paul Ryan was in attendance. The Republicons basically went on strike the night Obama was inaugurated. The Republicons had agreed on a way forward: Show united and unyielding opposition to the president’s economic policies. Newt Gingrich was quoted as saying “This begins the seeds of 2012, we are going to block him… the one commitment is to stop the re-election of this president”. A year later this was confirmed by Mitch McConnell who said ‘The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” Newt Gingrich confirms meeting took place in an interview with Al Sharpton on June 12, 2012.
Since then, the obstructionist Republicon-controlled house have filibustered everything, invoking the 60 vote majority rule in the Senate more times during this session than any Congress in history.
The Republicons blocked more than 60 Obama appointees forcing many agencies to operate without proper leadership.
The Republicons have repeatedly moved the goalpost.
The Republicons falsely campaigned on a platform of “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” in 2010. Once in office, all their talk about jobs evaporated. For they are only concerned with abortion issues, tax cuts for the rich,and grabbing back the whitehouse.
The Republicans have introduced 46 bills on abortion, 113 bills on religion, 73 bills on family relationships, 36 bills on marriage, 72 bills on firearms, 604 bills on taxation, 467 bills on government investigation, 33 attempts to repeal Obamacare, AND BLOCKED THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT.
The Republicons unaminously voted against the economic stimulus, yet they fell all over themselves to make it to ribbon cuttings, taking credit when projects funded by the stimulus start turning over dirt. Paul Ryan requested funds.
The Republicon Governors are firing teachers, firefighters and police officers, attacking public sector workers thru union busting for what they falsely claim the need to balance their budgets.
The Senate Republicons blocked the “Bring Jobs Home Act”, ending the tax breaks companies get when they send our jobs out of the country — and giving a few breaks to companies that hire here. protecting companies that outsource jobs!
The Republicons blocked 3 million jobs that would have been created with the “American Jobs Act” in August, 2011.
The Republicons filibustered of the “Small Business Tax Credit” that would have created one million jobs.
The Senate Republicons filibustered the ” Veteran’s Jobs Corps Act of 2012″ that four of their own members co-authored and that was already paid for, turning their backs on our war veterans coming home.
The Republicons all eagerly signed a lifetime pledge to one man, Grover Norquist, to never raise any taxes at any time, under any circumstances, conflicting with their oath of office to defend the Constitution. In the last congress, a total of 238 members of the House of Representatives signed the pledge, 236 Republicans and 2 Democrats. At least 41 sitting senators also have signed it, giving them enough votes to effectively filibuster any tax increase
The Republicons held the economy hostage in a manufactured debt ceiling crisis that caused the nation’s credit rating to be lowered for the first time in history. Standard & Poors directly attributed the downgrade to REPUBLICANS and their no tax agenda. Republicans turned down an offer of $10 spending cuts for every $1 of tax increase.”We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act”.
The Republicons voted down their own deficit reduction resolution, apparently because they didn’t want the president to share credit.
The Republicons time and time again walked out of negotiations such as the Simpson Bowles commission. Mr. Ryan did not mention that he had served on that commission And he led Republicans in voting down the commission’s own recommendations. It was Paul Ryan who walked away from the Simpson Bowles.
The Senate Republicans filibustered the 9/11 responders bill passed by the House.
The Republicons secretly conspired with 300 corporations behind closed doors of the American Legislative Exchange Council (A.L.E.C.) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to write legislation advantageous to the corporate oligarchy at the expense of the American people.
The Republicons blocked the Dream Act, then complained Obama does zip for Immigration problem.
The Republicons signed an oil industry-sponsored pledge to oppose all climate regulation defeating any chance of passing climate legislation, a resounding victory for the oil companies.
The Senate Republicons filibustered a bill that would have stripped big oil companies of multi-billion annual tax subsidies.
The Republicons were for the individual mandate before they were against it. The individual mandate was originally a Republicon plan. In 1993, when Hillary Clinton was proposing health care reform and a employer mandate, Republican’s advocated an alternative that included the individual mandate. Republicons called the individual mandate a “market-based” approach to health care reform. 33 times the House has tried to repeal all or part of President Obama’s health care law.
The Republicons conspired with the two billionare political operatives David and Charles Koch, to deny you your right to vote through voter suppression laws. The Kochs have funded efforts to thwart 21 million Americans from voting and Koch dollars helped write and propose voting suppression bills in 38 states that will put ballot boxes out of reach or millions of Americans eligible to vote, many of whom are African Americans. Hispanics, low-income poor, physically disabled, students and seniors.
‘Just say no’ is the Republicon slogan. ‘No Compromise’ is the Republicon mantra. ‘Defeat Obama’ is the Republicon agenda.
Republicon John Boehner said “This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles”.
Republicon John Boehner “I reject the word compromise”.
Republicon Richard Mourdock, said: “I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”
Republicon Mike Pence (R-Ind.), “There will be no compromise”.
The Republicon obstructionism has caused the the slow recovery. The Republicons chose party over country. In some foreign countries their actions would be considered an act of treason.

Thanks for your comment Diane. I’m glad to hear that GOP voters have seen the light on what has truly become of the GOP. I am an independent voter, probably could be considered leaning more liberal only in the sense that I believe in all ideas that make sense regardless of what party hey come from. But during he last election, it became clear to me that Romney was a puppet, flip-flopping his opinions on what ever he deemed the right thing to say at the moment. Obama though not perfect, at least is listening to the people. I have filled in survey after survey asking Me what I feel is most important. That shows me, they are listening. Welcome back to reality, we need more independent thinkers who are not married to either party!

As Joe Biden would say; “The idea that George H. W. Bush lost the reelcetion because of his broken pledge not to raise taxes is so much stuff put out by the Kommie Konservatiffs.” I was there. I worked on various DOD and other government projects and I heard and saw the changes. Before he closed the bases and laid off hundreds of thousands of aerospace and military workers, he had their votes sewed up. Afterwards, they abandoned him in droves. They either voted for Clintons or most of them just didn’t to bother to vote!!!!

It ought to be against federal law for a duly elected official to sign any pledge that hinders them from representing their constituents fully, which includes compromising on various issues.