From POLITICO:
Stung by the reaction to his claim that letting the Bush tax cuts expire is not a violation of his no-tax pledge, Grover Norquist took to the New York Times op-ed page on Friday to defend himself and insisted the pledge isn’t an obstacle to a deficit deal.
In a piece headlined “Read My Lips: No New Taxes,” Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, restates his position first articulated on Thursday’s Washington Post editorial page that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire would not break the pledge, which he says has been signed by 236 House members and 41 senators…
“My position, and the implications of the pledge regarding such “temporary” tax cuts, is clear. If there were no vote in Congress and taxes rose automatically, then no politicians would have voted for higher taxes and no elected official would have broken his or her pledge.”
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EDITOR: For better or worse (in this case we think better), it is amazing what a few adverse polls of public opinions can bring about!
