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From NBC/NJ's Carrie DannMINNEAPOLIS, MN&amp;nbsp; -- Grover Norquist is talking about decapitated rodents. 
"Those Republican elected officials who vote for tax increases are rat heads in a Coke bottle," booms the president of the Americans for Tax Reform,</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>The scene from St. (Ron) Paul</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/02/1327457.aspx#1327507</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:46:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1327507</guid><dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator><description>Grover Norquist is Jack Abramoff's best friend and partner in crime and the Republicans still cheer. Sad. Very sad.</description></item><item><title>The scene from St. (Ron) Paul</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/02/1327457.aspx#1327515</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:47:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1327515</guid><dc:creator>Gary Schear, Bozeman montana</dc:creator><description>15,000 - &amp;nbsp;That ain't no PUMA rally! GO RON PAUL!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama/Biden '08</description></item><item><title>The scene from St. (Ron) Paul</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/02/1327457.aspx#1327522</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:49:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1327522</guid><dc:creator>the Pajama Pundit</dc:creator><description>The most passionate of applause lines so far? Upon one speaker's single pronunciation of &amp;quot;the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle,&amp;quot; members of the audience leapt to their feet with enraptured cheers. &lt;br&gt;******************************************************&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THAT is awesome! &amp;nbsp;Go rEVOLutionaries!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://thepajamapundit.com/"&gt;http://thepajamapundit.com/&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>The scene from St. (Ron) Paul</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/02/1327457.aspx#1327537</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:53:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1327537</guid><dc:creator>Rodney Hopper, Waxahachie, TX</dc:creator><description>God... how great would it be so the maniacs crash the RNC?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Beeeeauutiful!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;They took over the NV convention (quietly swept under the rug 'thanks for nothing, first read'), how great would an RNC takeover be?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.rodneyhopper.com"&gt;http://www.rodneyhopper.com&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>The scene from St. (Ron) Paul</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/02/1327457.aspx#1327552</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:56:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1327552</guid><dc:creator>RustyJohn, Tacoma, WA</dc:creator><description>I love how the tone of this post makes it seem as if Norquist is a loon or the convention is filled with a bunch of kooks. &amp;nbsp;Yes, why would the Republican base continue to shrink ver the past eight years? &amp;nbsp;Surely it can't have anything to do with perpetual war and increasing the size of government as opposed to shrinking it like the Republicans promised.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Those silly geeks cheering over issues like combating inflation and government manipulated currency! &amp;nbsp;How cute! &amp;nbsp;I had to go look up something I should have learned during my freshman economics class in college.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why are these wacky Paulites distracting us from real issues that journalists with middle of the bell curve intelligence can understand- like 17 year old mothers, lapel pins, and &amp;quot;Big Oil&amp;quot;?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maybe if you guys actually did your job every once in a while instead of acting like sheep you might be able to inform the public and these concepts wouldn't seem so foreign to you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Instead, drop down before the altar of Obama and provide us not so witty commentary from Keith Olberman. &amp;nbsp;Are you guys going to hire Joe Theisman next to do the weather?</description></item><item><title>The scene from St. (Ron) Paul</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/02/1327457.aspx#1327553</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:58:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1327553</guid><dc:creator>Female American Voter</dc:creator><description>I want to voice my deep disgust at the McCain campaign, and the GOP. It is not sexism to question the credentials of a VP candidate for our nation. It is not sexism to look in to ethics and criminal issues like troopergate, pork earmarks, the Alaska Independence Party, and on and on. This is all fair game for any candidate who is on this national stage and is one person away from running the country. We scrutinized the Dems to death and overlooked almost everything about McCain under the assumption that &amp;quot;he had been around a long time and everyone knew him&amp;quot; - can't tell you how many times I had to stomach that from the press. McCain is acting like an idiot and a child for whining when his ticket is under the same mircoscope that the rest of the politicians have endured over the last 19 months. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The media better stop repeating this narrative that somehow there is sexism. It is not sexism to inquire about the policies, beliefs, and effectivenes of someone who might lead our country whether that person be man or woman. If you hammer home the GOP Talking Points Memo, that no one can criticize her because she is a woman and/or that someohow she has enough experience just because the GOP says so - you are no better than FIXED NEWS and Karl Rove. McCain is already throwing a trantrum to CNN because for the FIRST time in this election cycle they did not repeat their GOP talking points and questioned Tucker Bounds and another Republican talking head about whether Sarah Palin is competant enough. That is the same behavior you would expect from a toddler not a presumptive President. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Our country deserve better. We say enough! </description></item></channel></rss>