Satan being Grover Norquist, father of Americans for Tax Reform.
Probably signed by all the Republican congressional representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives:
AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM
United States House of Representatives Candidates
Taxpayer Protection Pledge
I, _____, pledge to the taxpayers of the ___ district of the state of _____, and to the American people that I will:
ONE: oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses; and
TWO: oppose any net reduction of elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates.
________ ________
Signature Date
______ ____
Witness Date
Pledges must be signed, dated, witnessed and returned to:
AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM
1920 L STREET NW, SUITE 200, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
PHONE (202)785-0266 FAX (202)330-5224
http://www.atr.org/...
On the passage of H.R. 1, Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes, (AKA The Jobs Recover Bill) Roll Call 46, it is to be noted that not one Republican voted for passage of this bill, that also a few "Democrats" also voted against passage of this bill.
http://thomas.loc.gov/...
Did they sign off their souls to Grover Norquist, Devil in Chief?
Grover Glenn Norquist.
Norquist founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985, at the request of President Ronald Reagan, and has headed the organization ever since....
In addition to heading Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist is currently on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association and the American Conservative Union. He is chairman emeritus of the Islamic Free Market Institute...
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Member of the Devil's Gang of Five:
Norquist, along with Bill Kristol, Ralph E. Reed, Jr., Clint Bolick, and David McIntosh, is one of the so-called "Gang of Five" identified in Nina Easton's 2000 book by that name, which gives a history of leaders of the modern (post-Goldwater) conservative movement. He has been described as "a thumb-in-the-eye radical rightist" (The Nation), and "Tom Paine crossed with Lee Atwater plus just a soupçon of Madame Defarge" (P.J. O'Rourke). Norquist's page on the web site of Americans for Tax Reform includes a laudatory quote about him from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Indeed, Norquist was one of the co-authors of the 1994 Contract with America.
Wikipedia above.
The Devil's Agenda to destroy America:
"Cutting the government in half in one generation is both an ambitious and reasonable goal," Norquist stated in May 2000. "If we work hard we will accomplish this and more by 2025. Then the conservative movement can set a new goal. I have a recommendation: To cut government in half again by 2050". To that end, Norquist has been noted for his widely quoted quip: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
.... When asked by Alain de Botton, "Why shouldn't the state help the needy?", in the television adaptation of Status Anxiety, Norquist replied, "Because to do that, you would have to steal money from people who earned it and give it to people who didn't. And then you make the state into a thief." Botton follows with, "You're suggesting that taxation is theft?" Norquist continues, "Taxation beyond the legitimate requirements of providing for justice is theft, sure."
Wikipedia
Norquist also equates estate taxes with the Holocaust, oh leap of faith!
Little Norquist tidbits:
Tucker Carlson calls him "a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep." Newt Gingrich says he’s "the single most effective conservative activist in the country." Meet Grover Norquist: the most influential conservative activist you’ve barely heard of.
....Grover’s allergy to government started in his youth. His father would steal bites of young Grover’s ice cream cone, likening each bite to another kind of federal tax: "Dad would take a bite of your ice cream cone and say, ‘sales tax.’ When he wanted a little more, he’d say, ‘income tax, estate tax.’" Norquist went to Harvard and graduated in 1978 with a major in economics, returning in 1979 for an MBA. During his Harvard years, Norquist became friends with two important people: Karl Rove, who had been executive director and then chair of the College Republicans, and Jack Abramoff, who’s been in the news quite a bit lately.
http://www.campusprogress.org/...
What a sweet guy!