Americans for Tax Reform,  Fiscal Cliff,  Grover Norquist

Republicans Jumping Off The No Tax Increase Fiscal Cliff?

Grover Norquist on CNN

Those Republican lawmakers who are bloviating about violating the Americans for Tax Reform pledge are doing just that. They have NOT and probably won’t vote for higher taxes.

Why?

Because they know their constituents would vote their asses out of office.

Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said Monday that his group, Americans for Tax Reform, would work to unseat Republicans who break their pledge to never vote for higher taxes.

His vow came after prominent GOP lawmakers said over the weekend they would consider breaking the Taxpayer Protection Pledge in order to reach a deal with Democrats and President Barack Obama to avoid tumbling over the fiscal cliff – the combination of sweeping spending cuts and tax increases that would go into effect at the end of the year if negotiators can’t reach a deal on reducing the federal debt.

Norquist said his group would “certainly highlight who has kept their commitment and who hasn’t” when it comes time for lawmakers like Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. Peter King to run for re-election, though Norquist claimed voters generally decide on their own to oust elected officials who vote to raise taxes.

“Historically the people who lose do so because the people in their state have figured that out,” Norquist said on CNN’s “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien.”

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina will probably be replaced as the Republican nominee anyway, since he has proven to be too left for the South Carolina GOP.

There seems to be a great deal of posturing with the knowledge that if NOTHING is done, taxes will really increase.

Here is the video:

It should be a fun few weeks before Christmas with EVERY POL submitting their own plan to avoid the “Fiscal Cliff.”