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Michigan Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter predicts that his proposal to reform Social Security will gain traction after the current congressional recess. (more)

Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist volunteered a guarded assessment of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Friday. (more)

Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist said he won’t oppose an extension of U.S. gasoline and diesel- fuel taxes set to expire Sept. 30, as he pushes for broader transportation-funding overhaul. (more)

Grover Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge has another signer: Florida Senate candidate George LeMieux. (more)

All political activists must wear bifocals so they can keep an eye on the present battle and also focus on the long run. (more)

Americans for Tax Reform founder and president Grover Norquist has made some enemies over the years for his conservative politics, but does he deserve to be called a terrorist? (more)

In the latest sign of the seriousness of the shutdown threat, a 5:00 p.m. meeting with Republican chiefs of staff includes as its guests the House Sargent at Arms and the staff director for the House Administration Committee, two key officials charged with preparing for the logistics of government funding running out at midnight Friday night. (more)

Freshman Sen. Marco Rubio’s statements against short-term spending measures are part of a small, but burgeoning, conservative rebellion against the three-week spending bill introduced Friday by GOP House leaders. (more)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The governor of Wisconsin has signed it. So have most of the Republicans in California’s Legislature. (more)

It has become clear that this Congress is not going to be one that passes fundamental tax reform. Anything that would pass the Democrat Senate or be acceptable to President Obama would be a net tax increase, and that is unacceptable to the House of Representatives and their 237 Taxpayer Protection Pledge signers. Attempts thus far at tax reform — the Simpson-Bowles commission and “Gang of Six” efforts come to mind — have been tax increases disguised as rate-cutting tax reform. Nevertheless, that does not mean that a significant opportunity isn’t there on an aspect of fundamental tax reform — namely, doing another round of low-tax repatriation of foreign corporate profits. (more)

In a major development on spending cuts, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado are introducing a proposal for a new congressional committee focused only on eliminating duplicative and wasteful government spending. (more)

A bruising battle over how much spending Republicans will cut in a bill to fund the government through the rest of 2011 is earning headlines about how the GOP is in “disarray.” (more)

If Donald Trump is serious about seeking the Republican nomination for president, he may find himself running with little support from the party’s powerful economic conservatives. (more)

Grover Norquist told Tea Party and Republican activists to stay away from would-be liberal allies Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), warning that they would only leech off conservative values and federal dollars. (more)

A coalition of conservative groups hopes to remind Americans of the lackluster results of President Barack Obama’s $814 billion stimulus as the second anniversary of its passage approaches next week. (more)

With the 112th Congress in full swing, some members of the House’s conservative Republican Study Committee are making a renewed effort to establish a committee whose only purpose is to find programs to cut from the federal budget. (more)

Earlier this month came word that the White House would send an additional 1,400 Marine combat forces to Afghanistan. Yet the announcement was met with a shrug from the antiwar movement. Why? Perhaps it’s because the figure represents a tiny uptick from the additional 30,000 troops the president committed to the region more than a year ago. Or perhaps it’s because the president who approved both escalations is named Obama, not Bush. It turns out that much of the antiwar movement is little more than an anti-George W. Bush movement. (more)

Republican activist Grover Norquist is calling for a “conversation” among conservatives on the possibility of withdrawing from Afghanistan. Norquist, the influential founder of Americans for Tax Reform, told attendees at a dinner hosted by the New America Foundation’s Steve Clemons last week that, given the war’s enormous price tag, it was time to consider leaving. (more)

Right on Crime responds to Mr. Weeks’s article here. (more)

Following a debate among the five candidates to be chairman of the Republican National Committee on Monday, the presumed front-runner Reince Priebus ran from the room to avoid reporters’ questions, while the sitting chairman, Michael Steele, lounged in the back talking to friends and supporters, his arms wrapped across the chairs on either side of him. (more)