One of these numbers here just has to be right ... I thought this was pretty hilarious. Freshman GOP Rep. Chris Gibson, who just fended off a tough reelection challenge from Democrat Julian Schreibman, is trying to get out from under his pledge never to raise taxes that he made to anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist'a pledge he readily took when he first ran for Congress in 2010. But Gibson doesn't want to look like he's going back on his word, so he's come up with a truly comical "rationale" as to why his promise no longer applies to him:The Congressman signed the pledge as a candidate in 2010 for the 20th Congressional District. [...]I'm pretty sure Gibson is trying to say that because his district number got changed, the pledge no longer applies! That's some amazing chutzpah. I mean, what if the number had happened to stay the same? And even forgetting that nonsense, how about the fact that 44 percent of the constituents in the new 19th were previously represented by Gibson in the old 20th? So would the pledge apply to that group, but not the remaining 56 percent? This is so ridiculous I can scarcely believe it. It doesn't matter what I think, though: The real question, though, will be whether Norquist buys it. Somehow, I have a feeling he won't.Regarding the pledge moving forward, Congressman Gibson doesn't plan to resign it for the 19th Congressional District, which he now represents (the pledge is to your constituents of a numbered district).
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