Protesting health reform in 2010.
Tea Party Republican Senator Jim DeMint announced today that he is resigning next month to run the conservative Heritage Foundation. Slate picks up this part of the Wall Street Journal report about the South Carolina Republican:
"This is an urgent time," the senator said, "because we saw in the last election we were not able to communicate conservative ideas that win elections." Mr. DeMint, who was a market researcher before he entered politics, said he plans to take the Heritage Foundation's traditional research plus that of think tanks at the state level and "translate those policy papers into real-life demonstrations of things that work." He said, "We want to figure out what works at the local and state level" and give those models national attention.
For Republicans now, it does seem that the states are where they're going to try to figure out what works and how to get their policies in effect. The movement began after the 2010 elections, when Republicans swept to power in state legislatures -- giving us two years of Republican governance marked by anti-abortion, anti-union, make-voting-harder legislation. It made for tough sledding at the national level in 2012, as Republicans picked up only two more states in the presidential election.
But at the level of governorships and state legislatures, Republicans picked up more seats. Both parties consolidated super-majorities in new places, but it is Republicans who emerged with complete control of 24 states. If they want to experiment in the states in the way Senator DeMint describes, they have a wide, wide field.
We got the same kind of news this week from billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who tells the Wall Street Journal (paywall) he intends to double his $100 million spending. As the Journal reports, Adelson intends to funnel that money "especially to state-level, antiunion initiatives." Look out below.
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What the Heritage Foudation needs is a great fiction writer of JK Rowlings ilk that can spin evil into a good thing.
Or just stay with Fox News...
It's arguable that Jim DeMint will have more power over the Republican Party and the direction of the country at the head of a radical Tea Party think tank than in the Senate. The agenda of obstruction and protecting the super-rich is in good hands with the Republican rank and file now on Capitol Hill. They are sure to stall anything resembling progress in order to continue litigating the 2012 presidential election that ended in such embarrassment for their cause. The Tea Party, such a small minority of this great nation, is intent on seizing power and marginalizing every other group of Americans that oppose their dangerous plans. DeMint is just another false idol for the Tea Party and GOP, just like Norquist. - pp
Plan B. Not going out without a fight; gotta give 'em credit for that. If the results of the last election maintain consistency then they will continue to represent the minority.
What the Heritage Foudation needs is a great fiction writer of JK Rowlings ilk that can spin evil into a good thing.
Jim DeMint walked into the darken parlor and staired intently at the bloody silver dagger in the back of the old democratic Govenor's back and he thought to himself, "That was just too easy. A little Fox News in the morning and a couple of powered ambien in a glass filled with good scotch and you have yourself a liberal's corpse laying on an antique aubusson french carpet." Yes indeed, how easy; for all that was left to do was to roll up the dead man in the old foreign rug, while making sure not to drip any blood onto the oak parquet; then throwing him over your shoulder so to haul him outside; to go and throw him into the trunk of the Lexus and take the lifeless body to the Heritage Foundation where the stiff can be ground up and after all that you can take the little bloody peices and bury them it in the basement of the foundation's church. While driving up the lane with the dancing shadows of the poplars overhead and onto the roof top of the auto taking a sharp turn to pass through the great iron gate, DeMint told his Onstar to call the GOP's personal Cleaner-- saying loudly, "Klaus! Demint here. Mix up a couple of dozen bags of concreat, we are going to be busy tonight with another one."
Jim deMint was one of the original plotters who, on Obma's inauguration day, plotted to obstruct and block everything proposed by Obama. By doing this, they effectively became traitors to the Constitution, their own promise of JOBS. JOBS. JOBS and their oath of office to serve the People and not themselves.
He should be arrestred along with all his other co-plotters. But, he won't.
Question: Doesn't this make the Senate GOP a greater MINORITY?
What does this mean for the Senate?
Jim DeMint - Looking for the money and anywhere he can have absolute power over the troops with money from the Heritage Foundation. Jim DeMint saw the writing on the wall after the severe thumping the TEA-Republican's took and looked for a whole lotta money and plush offices to effect all the damages he can from a distance.
more money from the crooked narrow minded bigot millionares who want it all....these are not foundations, and if they are tax exempt that is wrong.............they are so called groups who get paid high saleries, to sit around and try to figure out how to take away all workers rights, and how to screw the middleclass and working poor...what a crime...they learn how to jack with the laws, how to try to amend the constitution and then go to these foundations,,,,,,,,,,,,and try to figure out how to turn everyone republican:::::::::::::::::::insane,,