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Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist likes what he hears from Representative Anthony Weiner about eliminating earmarks in Congress.

“[Having earmarks] changes the nature of who a congressman is. All of a sudden, he is a favor factory,” Norquist told me.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/norquist-likes-weiners-stand-against-earmarks#comments Politics Anthony Weiner Grover Norquist Tue, 13 May 2008 16:13:17 -0400 Azi Paybarah 69170 at http://www.observer.com For Fox Business, Big Government Is Enemy Number One http://www.observer.com/2007/day-1-fox-business-goes-after-big-government

It soon became clear that riling up competitor CNBC was a minor, albeit festive indulgence in the Fox Business Network workday. "Big Government" is the common enemy here, and they'll talk about it all day long.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/day-1-fox-business-goes-after-big-government#comments Media Politics Adam Shapiro CNBC Inc. Fox Business Network Grover Norquist Liz McDonald Roger Ailes Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:09:37 -0400 Felix Gillette 58876 at http://www.observer.com Rudy’s Loveless Marriage to Conference Conservatives http://www.observer.com/node/36912 WASHINGTON, D.C.—Every year, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist hosts two can’t-miss even  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/36912#comments Politics Facebook Inc. Grover Norquist Paul Caprio Rudolph Giuliani Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:00:00 -0400 Rebecca Sinderbrand 36912 at http://www.observer.com Norquist on the Conversions of Rudy and Mitt http://www.observer.com/node/31525 Grover Norquist, the small-government advocate who helped engineer the conservative revolution in the 1990's, has a novel take on why erstwhile liberals like Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney might be embraced by social conservatives.

"People are up for conversions, for changes, for growing," he told me in an interview this week. "People love former alcoholics and drug addicts. You never have anybody on the 700 Club who always went to church and was nice. 'Now, homosexual prostitutes who took drugs and don't do that anymore -- yeah, we like you!'"

Norquist said that Giuliani's subtle new strategy for dealing with his past apostacies could work, but he thinks that Romney's more overt change of heart is going to end up being the more successful one.

"The argument made out by Romney is actually the better one, as articulated on abortion," said Norquist. "'I used to be pro-choice and so stated it, but now I have had a change of heart and now I'm not.'"

The trick, he said, is to make it believable.

"That's called winning when people want to be on your team. Conservative movements should be willing to accept conversions one way in one direction, one time," said Norquist. "As long as someone has a credible explanation as to why."

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