“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
—Tea Party patron saint Grover Norquist.
“They got their wish. What you see today is your government, drowning — a government that couldn’t produce a rudimentary test for coronavirus, that couldn’t contain the pandemic as other countries have done, that couldn’t produce enough ventilators for the sick or even enough face masks and gowns for health-care workers.
–Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, April 10, 2020.
Louisiana Voice 
So, mission accomplished, eh Grover?
And let’s not forget the damage done to Louisiana by one of Grover’s most ardent admirers: Piyush Jindal.
CJG, almost all of the majority-ruled legislature republicans, along with our US senators and congressmen, signed Grover Norquist’s pledge. There were few, if any, exceptions, and most were still in office during Edwards’s first term. The Jindalistas and our Congressmen did, and continue to do, as much damage as possible.
Yes indeed. I remember that when Jindal left office I couldn’t find any Republican friends of mine who still supported him. Yet, these were the same people who would not vote for Edward’s re-election because he had “raised taxes.” Did I say a while back in a posting that Tigers don’t change their stripes? Ha.
CJG : I agree that we continue to be “ruled” by the Republican Legislature that aided and abetted Jindal. When will folks ever learn?
What a sad commentary. Our country government hobbled with the direct aid of a limited capacity president. You me or any other 9th grade and above grad who happened to find they were in the presidency for their first elected job would have welcomed from the start all the advice, planning and understanding one could get from the previous administrations….In stead this Putin’s associate or just his convenient fool serves him extraordinary well with constant misdirection s and up setting our nation from the start. George W Bush reported comments made during inauguration serve us very well today….
https://www.azquotes.com/author/7392-Thomas_Jefferson
I will always hold this man to be our most brilliant President. Less government and more self-reliance is not a bad thing.
Zoe…..surely, you jest?
Ms. Zoe, I went to your suggested site. The first quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson, “The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations” has not been found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
There is no question that Jefferson did not like the marriage of banks, rich people, and control of government policy. What he actually said was “I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.” Not disputing Jefferson’s positions on government (Lord knows we are in the midst of what he warned us about in the quote), but would be careful of the accuracy of the quotes attributed to Jefferson in your source azquotes. I did not take the time to verify the rest of the quotes in the site.
Oh, I forgot to mention the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United. The worse ruling in our country’s history by a 5-4 vote (the five being the conservative members). Jefferson, no doubt, rolled over in his grave.