The battle is on. Tomorrow morning, No Labels Co-Founder Dave Walker will join Grover Norquist on MSNBC’s Morning Joe at 8AM EDT. In front of the ultimate pledge-maker himself, Walker will call for our leaders to take no pledge but the Pledge of Allegiance.
Single-issue partisan pledges only serve to tie the hands of our leaders and prevent them from making the right decisions. Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) pledge, which demands that elected officials promise not to raise taxes, is a prime example of the danger pledges pose to our democracy. His pledge is one of the main reasons today’s debt crisis is so dire -- Republicans are stripped of the power to compromise without breaking their pledge to ATR.
Don’t miss the great showdown between common-sense solutions and hyper-partisan pledges. Watch Walker and Norquist, joined by Lawrence O'Donnell and Senator Mark Warner, on Morning Joe at 8AM Eastern Time tomorrow morning on MSNBC. Tune in and be sure to forward this email to five friends, urging them to watch as well.
