TALKING POINT: Irony of GOP "drown the govt" goals

Wasn't Grover Norquist famous for saying conservatives wanted government to be so small it could be drowned in a bathtub?

Here's our new talking point:

Conservatives desire to make government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub has not drowned the government.  No, their ideological fanaticism, budget cuts, contrived war, tax cuts, and self-serving short-sightedness has merely served to drown the wonderful city of New Orleans and with it thousands of good Americans.

Okay, now go write LTE's.

•  I had an e-mail read on the Diane Rehm show

  this morning with this very meme.  I even used the phrase (attributed to Norquist) about drowning the goevernment.  It was the Friday news round up and Tony Blankly of the WaTimes called it a cheap shot while E.J. Dionne called it a legitimate question.  Im pretty proud because the Diane Rehm show on WAMU is fairly influential in the DC area.  So Im doing my best with this.  

  by calipygian on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 08:28:34 AM PDT

  •  Dang, thought I was first

    but seriously glad it is already getting around

    by DemDachshund on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 08:29:55 AM PDT