By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
OK, Washington joke: Grover Norquist walks into his downtown office. There's a bronze bust of Ronald Reagan, a towering stack of books, and on the windowsill of the nation's most powerful anti-tax activist rests an oversized front page from the Onion, a satirical newspaper.
"Oh, Grover is hilarious," said Jennifer Schubert-Akin, chairwoman of the Steamboat Institute, a Colorado-based conservative think tank.
