Grover Norquist is a "poopy head"!

Never trust a man who is afraid to use the word shit.

Actually, that is the least of my problems with Norquist.  The real problem is that Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform and mastermind behind the Republican anti-tax pledge, is engaged in a priori politics.  There are two kinds of intellectual disciplines, theoretical (think math) and practical (think physics or biology).  The former disciplines require no experience of the physical world (if you take away all apples and oranges, two plus two still equals four).  A priori politics begins with certain definitions and axia which require no experience of the physical world--the world of people, money, businesses, exchange, war.  From the initial definitions and axia of Euclid's Elements, one can construct a dodecahedron without any need to leave his mind.  This cannot work in politics because people, money and power are not ideas.  The great thing about ideas is that they do not change, they are stable--this makes them easy to work with.  People, on the other hand, change, move, break the rules and act stupidly.  Applying inflexible axia (such as the anti-tax pledge) to humans cannot work because it is blind to the possibility of new necessities.  In other words, it suggests that there are no conditions under which taxes would need to be increased.  This is ostrich politics.