Another one bites the dust: GOP rep rejects Norquist pledge
Gabriela Resto-Montero, @GabrielaRM
11:02 am on 11/25/2012
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said that all options, including raising taxes, were on the table in negotiations to avoid triggering the fiscal cliff.
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said that all options, including raising taxes, were on the table in negotiations to avoid triggering the fiscal cliff. (Photo:AFP Photo/Mladen Antonov/Getty Images)
More Republicans are bailing on Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge as budget negotiations to avoid the “fiscal cliff” near.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., stood with Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., on Meet the Press Sunday, and rejected the pledge, which holds its signatories to not raise taxes during their terms in office.
“I think everything should be on the table,” King said, adding that the 20-year-old pledge may be outdated. “We should not be taking ironclad positions.”
King joins other GOP leaders, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in challenging longstanding anti-tax conservative orthodoxy. The fiscal crisis has exposed how constrained Republican legislators have been by the pledge and lawmakers newly empowered by voters who demanded action on the economy are starting to push back.
“The election is over, President Obama won and he won fair and square,” King said. “Let’s find a way to solve as much as possible between now and the end of the year.”
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