Rep. Wolf calls it as he sees it

Rep. Frank Wolf, from my district in Virginia, bravely attacked Grover Norquist on the floor of Congress this week. As far as I know, this is the first Republican to speak out against Norquist and the anti-tax pledge he sold to the GOP. The pledge has helped paralyze Washington and delayed any economic recovery. The idiots who cling to the pledge should be thrown out of office for not performing their sworn duties. Their allegiance to Norquist, instead of their constituents, makes them unfit to govern.


Wolf, who has actually read this blog and who I have met while I was the editor of a local newspaper, is a relatively honorable politician, which is quite a contrast from Eric Cantor, another Virginian Republican who is such a conniving brat that it makes me ashamed to be a part of the Commonwealth whenever I hear him speak. Of course, Cantor is a Norquist supporter.


Hopefully, other Republicans will follow Wolf's lead and not allow Norquist to drag down America any further. We elect our politicians to vote in our best interests, not to take pledges to a single man who no one elected to any public office. Whether you believe in Norquist's ideas or not, it is a dangerous thing for politicians to limit their own abilities to negotiate solutions for the country by aligning themselves with a single individual or organization.