Republicans put their ‘No Tax Pledge’ ahead of their Constitutional oath - Las Vegas Democrat | Examiner.com

Republicans put their ‘No Tax Pledge’ ahead of their Constitutional oath - Las Vegas Democrat | Examiner.com

Before Republicans ever get to Washington D.C. and before they get the backing of the GOP establishment to fund their campaigns, they are asked to sign various pledge’s for various special interest groups. And one such pledge is a “No Tax Pledge” for a special interest group called Americans for Tax Reform, based in Washington D.C. and headed by Grover Norquist.

Nearly every republican in Congress has signed this pledge which is at clear odds with their Constitutional oath.

As I mentioned, nearly all Republicans have signed this pledge, but one Republican, Senator Tom Coburn (OK), recently said on Meet the Press:

“Which pledge is most important … the pledge to uphold your oath to the Constitution of the United States or a pledge from a special interest group who claims to speak for all American conservatives when, in fact, they really don’t?”

As you know the Republican Party recently took our Nation hostage, they caused our nations credit rating to be downgraded from AAA to AA+ and they nearly caused our Nation to default on its bills for the first time in history, since they refuse to allow new tax revenues because of a “No Tax Pledge“.

Standard and Poor’s downgrade statement said:

“Our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues.”

S & P thinks that the Republicans will not put our Nation ahead of their political careers.

President Obama and the Democrats in Congress were willing to work on a compromised deal that included spending cuts and new revenues. In fact two thirds of the American public want to let the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 expire for those making more than $250,000, which amounts to approximately 2 percent of the population.

The Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), said after a final deal was reached, “I got 98 percent of what I wanted. I'm pretty happy.” But even with 98 percent, many in his party were still unhappy because they didn’t get everything they wanted, much like a child whines when they don’t get everything they want.


Speaker Boehner who says he got 98 percent of what he wanted, blames the S & P downgrade on the President. I suspect that if Speaker Boehner got 100 percent of what he and his terror party were demanding, he would still blame the President for the downgrade.





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