Grover Norquist's Amusing CSPAN interview

Grover was on CSPAN yesterday discussing life for his group "Americans for Tax Reform" and his life as a friend of Jack Abramoff. When Sen. McCain noted that Norquist's group had served as a conduit for funds from Abramoff clients into grass-roots lobbying campaigns, Norquist blasted McCain as a friend of higher taxes and that the Senator fears he can't become president while Norquist is out in the world working is low-tax magic. Later on one of McCain's aides responded by saying that "obviously Grover is not well. It would be cruel of us to respond in kind."

Grover took calls from fawning Republicans and bitter working class Democrats, at least two of whom dared Grover to try and make a living on minimum wage salaries in Bush world. The most amusing part of the interview, however, was when Norquist defended his work for one of Abramoff's Native American casino lobbies. Norquist helped funnel funds from the Mississippi Choctaw American Indian tribe to anti-gambling grassroots activists like Ralph Reed who would have been uncomfortable receiving money directly from gambling profits. Reed was working to defeat a state-sponsored lottery. Norquist said he was working with the Native American group the same lottery because they believed that the state has no roll in creating one. He waxed eloquently for minutes on the grand and glorious quest of his group and the Chactaw tribe to stop state government from overreaching.

Uh, I'm just spitballing here Grov ol' boy, but could it possibly have been instead something more like the casino lobby doesn't want competition?