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To: Road Walker who wrote (434586)	11/12/2008 2:11:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573888

One quote from one person (or a dozen from a dozen if you want to make the effort to find them) doesn't prove or even support your idea. There are large numbers of politicians and even larger numbers of bureaucrats. Few of them agreed with Norquist on that, and Norquist was not himself one of them, he was the leader of a political lobbying group. He held no elective office, nor was he a government employee. Even at the peak of Republican power, nearly half of congress was controlled by Democrats, and even considering only the Republicans only a very small minority would agree with Norquist's statement or something like it. As for the executive branch, Bush was a big spender, not a small government ideologue. Look at the political appointees and senior civil service employees and you will see few if any that would back Norquists ideas. For the past eight years, or probably more like the past 80 years, the idea behind Norquist statement has never had more than minority support either across the whole country, or considering only people in government, or considering only congress, and has never had full support from the president. Reagan probably came closest but he was still very far away from that idea.