Grover Who?

I have to admit to being struck today by a political story.  Usually I notice things like this before I see them in the press, but I missed this wrinkle.

With the Bush tax cuts set to expire not so long ago Righties were all over the media saying how they couldn't let it happen because letting the cuts expire was a tax increase.  They all have this pledge that they've signed with Righty Operator Grover Norquist which basically says that if they ever raise taxes ever they will find themselves without support (read a loss of PAC money and a likely primary challenge).

Now that's just total horse hockey to begin with but that's a different post.

This post is about how now the same Righties are all over the media saying they can't not let the current payroll tax rollbacks expire.  Caught up in the goofiness of the regular news coverage I failed to notice that by their own rules this would mean they are supporting a tax increase on the American people.

Where oh where is Grover Norquist?  Why aren't these congresscritters afeared of losing their funding or of the impending primary challenges?  After all they were so clear that letting a tax cut sunset was in fact a vote for a tax increase.

So clearly it really has nothing to do with an absolute ban on tax increases, just lefty tax increases.  Righties can go ahead and tax the 99% all they want.  The threat clearly only applies to lefty taxes aimed at the 1%.

Sometimes this country makes my head hurt.