Fact or Fiction: Grover Norquist

This is an interesting fact checker article on Grover Norquist. The Washington Post has several articles on Mr. Norquist on its website today, some that support him and some that deride him. Rather than get caught up in that mess, I suggest you read this article to at least see if his facts are correct. As you can see below, many are not:

Finally, let’s examine Norquist’s claim that “we just wasted $800 billion on stimulus spending that added to debt that killed jobs. There are fewer jobs than before.”
First of all, Norquist appears to have forgotten that, depending on how you do the math, the stimulus bill included between $218 billion and $288 billion in tax cuts. Norquist is a huge fan of marginal rate reductions so perhaps he does not consider items such as the “Making Work Pay” tax credit to be a true tax cut. But it is simply incorrect to refer to “$800 billion of stimulus spending.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/grover-norquist-a-misleading-accounting-of-recent-history/2011/11/27/gIQAAhER2N_blog.html