(Today's cartoon is being posted a little late due to technical difficulties)
After the cut: a transcript of Mr. Norquist's remarks.
GROVER NORQUIST: All of the Republican presidential candidates, with the exception of Utah John Huntsman, have committed in writing to the American people--not to me, to the American people--that they won't raise taxes. What they say is, I'm gonna go to Washington. You know what I'm not gonna do? I'm not gonna raise your taxes. I'm gonna fix the mess. It's the Democrats whose position is, that the only problem in Washington, DC is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.
DAVID GREGORY: And if a republican raises taxes after taking the pledge, as president of the United States. Ironclad, one-term president in your view?
GROVER NORQUIST: Well, we have some history here. George Herbert Walker Bush had a very successful presidency. He managed the collapse of the Soviet Union, he threw Iraq out of Kuwait, didn't get stuck occupying the place for a decade. he had one small hole in the bottom of his boat: he said he wouldn't raise taxes and he did, and he lost the presidency. The American people don't like people who lie their way into office.
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