Over for Grover.Several more nails were pounded into the coffin coffin, closed receptacle for a corpse. Its purpose is usually to protect and to aid preservation of the body, although in the past some have believed that it may confine the spirit of the deceased. that is Grover Norquist's reputation, when a report of the Senate Finance committee found that Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform Americans for Tax Reform is an interest group seeking to reduce the overall level of taxation in the United States, at the federal, state and local level. Its founder and president is Grover Norquist, an influential Republican lobbyist. appears to have "perpetrated a fraud" on taxpayers. The Abramoff scandal has already produced one conviction and seven guilty pleas. Adding Norquist could mean curtains cur·tain n. 1. Material that hangs in a window or other opening as a decoration, shade, or screen. 2. Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, or barrier: for the total sellout sellout The distribution of all the securities in a new issue by the selling group. lobbying he has encouraged by insisting on all--Republican lobbying firms. It is true that few lobbying enterprises have ever been totally innocent. But at least the pre-Norquist custom on K Street, which balanced staffs with Democrats and Republicans, meant that lobbyists understood the importance of listening to the other side. The DeLay-Abramoff-Norqnist strategy of riding roughshod over your opponent concedes nothing--especially to the public interest. |
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