Catherine Poe Ask me a question. Follow @catpoe WASHINGTON, November 28, 2012 —Who is this guy everyone in Washington is talking about: Grover Norquist? He sounds like a character that escaped from the Saturday morning cartoons. Only he is no laughing matter. Grover Norquist has twisted the fate of the country in his hands for the last couple of years with Republicans turning themselves into pretzels to please him. How does he wield so much power? He started by getting members of Congress, nearly all of them Republicans, to sign his No Tax Pledge 26 years ago and now 238 Representatives and 41 Senators in the 112th Congress are in his thrall. Or they were until President Obama was...
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