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Don Young is Like a "Rat Head in a Coke Bottle"
We reported earlier that Rep. Don Young (R-AK) falsely claimed that he was named "Hero of the Taxpayer" by the non-partisan reform group, Taxpayers for Commonsense.
But Taxpayers for Commonsense denies even having such an award, yet alone awarding it to Young, a long-time target of the political watchdog.
As it turns out, Young was named "Hero of the Taxpayer", by the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, founded and run by Republican lobbyist Grover Norquist.
But now even Norquist is throwing Young under the bus, issuing a press release late this afternoon slamming the Congressman and claiming he "betrays taxpayers."
"Republicans that vote for tax increases are like rat heads in Coke bottles,"Norquist said. "They ruin the Republican brand for all members. It should be readily apparent to a former 'Hero of the Taxpayer Award' recipient that you don't vote for tax hikes."
According to the press release, Young voted for H.R. 2642, the Blue Dog Tax Hike-- a move that makes him ineligible to receive ATR's "Hero of the Taxpayer Award" in 2008.
We called Young's campaign press contact for comment, Mike Anderson, who told us that the bill was a lot more complicated than it looked.
"If you vote for the bill you vote for veterans and Alaska has 75,000 veterans, but you're also colored as pro-increasing taxes, but if he voted against the bill, he's anti-raising taxes but anti-veteran," Anderson told TPMmuckraker. "Young said that he had to take care of the veterans. Veterans have always been very important."
Josh
Zachary
To Grover-
Do you love it?
do you hate it?
there it is the way you made it
wow
July 25, 2008 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shouldn't that be "Mink Head in a Coke Bottle"?
July 25, 2008 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Priceless
I bet Norquist would shrink the mink head down in a bathtub, and drown it, before stuffing it in the coke bottle.
July 25, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Norquist: "you don't vote for tax hikes."
Oh, I see. So as long as you lower taxes your a "hero," and your attitude towards actually spending taxpayer money doesn't matter.
July 25, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait, you mean to say that public policy issues are complex and can't all be reduced to a taxes bad! framework?
Stunned, I tell you, stunned!
July 25, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pull yourself together! Nobody's saying that kind of crazy-talk. Taxes bad! Taxes bad!
July 26, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Were Grover a pedestrian on a street down which I was driving, I'd face a true moral quandary.
Do I speed up and hit him once -- or hit him slowly, all the better as to ease my car into reverse & squash him again (like the insect he is) without putting any unnecessary strain on my transmission??
July 25, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Find a convenient bathtub and introduce him to his plans forgovernment.
July 25, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't that what Bob Novak just did to some homeless guy?
July 25, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
*goddamn lousy TPM formatting*
Response to dCreed:
Yeah, but I don't drive a 'Vette.
The rat-bastard will have to be content with being run down by a fucking Corolla.
July 25, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
He had to have been looking right at that picture when he came up with "rat head in a coke bottle" cause that's just what Young looks like in that picture - if you take the body and glasses away.
July 25, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to the press release, Young voted for H.R. 2642, the Blue Dog Tax Hike-- a move that makes him ineligible to receive ATR's "Hero of the Taxpayer Award" in 2008.
Are there groups on the left this stringent on holding reps accountable for specific votes?
July 25, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Takes one to know one. A fellow rat head, I mean.
July 25, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
a rat's ass criticizes a rat's head
that repuglitard unity thing is working real good
July 25, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, but I don't drive a 'Vette.
The rat-bastard will have to be content with being run down by a fucking Corolla.
July 25, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
If nothing else, Norquist is the master of tortured metaphors...
July 25, 2008 11:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
How appropriate for a torture-loving Republican. Even metaphors aren't safe.
July 26, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Grover Nordquist is a wealthy citizen who believes that it is our children's responsibility to pay for the government services he uses today.
At interest.
He is nothing more than a fraudulent "Borrow & Spend" destroyer of American economic security.
Grover would rather destroy America's national economic security than pay for the goods & services he consumes.
Given this, it is plain to see that Grover Nordquist and his organization poses a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States of America and could, under different circumstances be considered an unlawful enemy combatant ...
All to easy to create a line of discussion that can color anyone in this sort of light. Fortunately, I wrote this with the best intention not to cause permanent, life threatening harm to Grover or any of his vital functions....
July 26, 2008 12:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
When I first heard Dole's campaign line, "We want you to keep more of your money in your pocket.", the first thought to cross my mind was, 'Thank God it isn't my money, or it would be worthless!'
Even though they license the to right to profit from it out to the private banking system, money is still a function of and property of the government. Remember, "Render unto Caesar."? As medium of exchange, it is a form of public utility, just like a public road system. As responsible citizens, we have the right to use it and as taxpayers we are responsible for supporting it, even if the bankers get most of the profits. It is both right and responsibility. So my question to Norquist is, If you hate the government so much, why do you love its currency so much? Are you really just that stupid, or assume your audience is?
Those are presidents on those bills and they haven't reached the point of putting Reagan on one yet. Though I would suggest that when inflation really starts getting completely out of hand, we could put Reagan on the million dollar bill and the two Bushes on the ten and hundred million dollar bills.
July 26, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to an MJ article about him a couple of years ago, friend of Jack Abramoff Norquist got his aversion to taxes when his father, a Polaroid executive, took a bite from Grover's ice cream cone before Grover had a chance to eat it, explaining that this was what taxes do. At the time they were probably walking or driving on a public street, protected by the town's police and fire department and maintained by the town. No airplanes crashed on them because the airspace was controlled by taxpayer-funded air traffic control.
He's the new Leona Helmsley. Taxes are for the little people, in the form of regressive national sales taxes.
He has a real snobby snotty way of talking, so I'm betting that Grover Bathtub got a lot of wedgies when he was in 7th grade.
July 26, 2008 12:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Norquist absolutely nauseates me. Have no idea what his preferences are, but this quote comes to mind!
“He's just a kid who was quite effeminate and obviously gay, but he wasn't a Tootsie trying to pass.”
Cillian Murphy
July 27, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
caption:
"I'm gonna gnaw my way out of this coke bottle if it's the last thing I do!"
July 27, 2008 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let the market control!! If the public wants sub-prime mortgages and can find lenders, keep government off their backs! But it is important to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with Federal funds when it all goes wrong. But don't pass those costs onto the taxpayer!
Just put it on the tab, and once the rat's head eats the tab, shove it all right down the bathtub! Couldn't be simpler!
What a fucking twit. How come anybody even publishes what the greasy buffoon has to say for himself?
Best,
Joe
July 28, 2008 4:06 AM | Reply | Permalink