Top Republican senator ditching Norquist anti-tax pledge
[Top Republican
senator ditching
Norquist
anti-tax pledge
Fox News] "A top
Republican
senator is
casting aside an
anti-tax pledge
he signed,
saying that
solving the
country’s
looming fiscal
crisis is more
important than
honoring the
decades-old
pact.
Sen. Saxby
Chambliss,
R-Ga., broke
ranks with other
conservatives
Wednesday when
he made the
remarks to a
local television
station.
Chambliss is a
member of the
Gang of Six, a
bipartisan group
of senators
tasked with
finding a
solution to the
country's fiscal
woes.
"I care more
about my country
than I do about
a 20-year-old
pledge," he told
WMAZ-TV. "If we
do it his way
then we’ll
continue in
debt, and I just
have a
disagreement
with him about
that..." Full
text:
Top Republican
senator ditching
Norquist
anti-tax pledge
Jas 5:12,
Ex 20:15
