{"id":10441,"date":"2015-06-10T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:48:48","slug":"who-elected-grover-norquist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10441","title":{"rendered":"Who elected Grover Norquist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;read an article this morning that just distilled what is wrong with the repub party these days&#8230;with the tax cut fever that has spread through repub controlled states like Wisconsin, Kansas, Louisiana, and our own state of Michigan that has busted all of the budgets&#8230;some of the conservatives in Louisiana have figured out that gee, maybe cutting all those taxes was not such a good idea since they are now looking at a 1.6 billion dollar deficit. Some of them have even uttered the unthinkable, that they may have to raise taxes to fix the shortfall. But, here comes the sickening part&#8230;instead of doing their jobs and taking care of the people of Louisiana, they first had to make the pilgrimage to the shrine of tax cutting, Grover Norquists office&#8230;and you know the result. Under no circumstances will he allow them to raise taxes&#8230;but, my question is &#8220;who elected Grover Norquist?&#8221; No resident of Louisiana voted for him so why do they have to suffer the destruction of their state to please him? It&#8217;s about time for the US to throw this idiot and his nonsense to the curb&#8230;this crap has never worked to do anything but to make the rich richer and allow them to freeload on our tax dollars&#8230;.I hope this makes you as sick as it makes me&#8230;.no one person has done more damage to the country than ole Grover&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;read an article this morning that just distilled what is wrong with the repub party these days&#8230;with the tax cut fever that has spread through repub controlled states like Wisconsin, Kansas, Louisiana, and our own state of Michigan that has busted all of the budgets&#8230;some of the conservatives in Louisiana have figured out that gee, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=10441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who elected Grover Norquist?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[492,922],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-grover-norquist","tag-louisiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10443,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions\/10443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}