"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
- Arch-neoconservative Grover Norquist
Update: And just when I thought I might be behaving somewhat uncharitably towards the man, Norquist himself sets my conscience to rest by issuing in Katrina's wake a call to repeal the Death Tax.
Because think of all the dead people still floating around New Orleans who could be passing their wealth on instead of giving it to those meddling Feds who'd probably just spend it on emergency preparedness and stronger levees...
Another update: Just when you think you're the cleverest blog in the 'sphere --
http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=norquist+bathtub
Oh, well. One of the 200 cleverest, at any rate!
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