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Sen. Jim DeMint to Head Heritage Foundation (leaving US Senate in January)
WSJ ^

Posted on 12/06/2012 7:31:44 AM PST by Perdogg

South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint will replace Ed Feulner as president of the Heritage Foundation. Mr. DeMint will leave his post as South Carolina's junior senator in early January to take control of the Washington think tank, which has an annual budget of about $80 million.

Sen. DeMint's departure means that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican, will name a successor, who will have to run in a special election in 2014. In that year, both Mr. DeMint's replacement and Sen. Lindsey Graham will be running for reelection in South Carolina.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 112th; demint; feulner; goinggalt; heritagefoundation; jimdemint; retirement; whoisjohngalt
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To: FR_addict
Apparently you and I...think the same.

Ha!!

141 posted on 12/06/2012 9:58:52 AM PST by Osage Orange ( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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To: Cold Heat
It's a long tradition for the Republicans to kiss the xxx of Democrats, while the Democrats call the Republican supporters all sorts of vile names.

I'm going to become more active in the Tea Party this coming year. Someone has got to emerge that can lead us rather than these mealy mouth Republicans. Ted Cruz sounds pretty good.

142 posted on 12/06/2012 10:00:14 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: FR_addict
DeMint just said “Harry Reid is a friend of mine:. He also said Harry Reid is not the problem. I'm disgusted the Republicans are just too cozy with the Democrats who tell everyone how hateful and racists Republicans are, especially the Tea Party and DeMint doesn't take it personal. Then he is no conservative. He can join the Heritage Foundation. I don't really care. They sent me two solicitations for money in the last few days. They are going in the trash.

Did you just say Jim and Heritage are not conservative enough for you? After a nap and a glass of iced tea, please re-examine this rash evaluation.
143 posted on 12/06/2012 10:00:22 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Perdogg

Perhaps Jim is seeing the inevitable split of conservatives away from the GOP and is leaving now so as not to taint hs future in the conservative movement.

Given the very likely rollover te GOP-E will do regarding the fiscal cliff, I am in much favor of getting the hell out of the loser/ stupid party and join the Conservative party!


144 posted on 12/06/2012 10:03:02 AM PST by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: upchuck
Who can blame him? He will be sorely missed.

Amen to that! Thanks for all your pings.

145 posted on 12/06/2012 10:05:21 AM PST by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: Perdogg

I think this is GREAT! As the Senator himself said, he can do more good raising awareness of Conservatism and taking the message more effectively to potential voters than being yet another no vote in a Democrat dominated Senate.

The Biblical parable says it best: DeMint will teach men to fish instead of being part of the fish-giving machine.


146 posted on 12/06/2012 10:05:31 AM PST by bigbob
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To: CAluvdubya
I guess elections really are useless. We elect conservatives only to have the likes of Boehner pull them from any position of power. Now the remaining conservatives just leave.

I feel like we're Charlie Brown who had the football pulled out by Lucy so many times, our back is starting to get arthritis.
147 posted on 12/06/2012 10:05:59 AM PST by Nowhere Man (It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
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To: Resettozero
“Did you just say Jim and Heritage are not conservative enough for you? After a nap and a glass of iced tea, please re-examine this rash evaluation.

Yes, that is what I said. They are playing games with us.

Individual health care insurance mandate has roots two decades long

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/28/individual-health-care-insurance-mandate-has-long-checkered-past/

The controversial individual mandate that was upheld Thursday by the U.S. Supreme Court stems back more than 20 years, believed to have originated with a prominent conservative think tank.

The mandate, requiring every American to purchase health insurance, appeared in a 1989 published proposal by Stuart M. Butler of the conservative Heritage Foundation called “Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans,” which included a provision to “mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance.”

148 posted on 12/06/2012 10:08:33 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: FR_addict
The Senate is all about cordial argument....not azz kissing.

You want to play down and dirty, you go to the House, maybe violate the rules a time or two....that is where the fun is...

Demint was just being respectful and Senate like....It means nothing regarding his political beliefs...

Although Harry Reid is the most partisan leader of the Senate in decades, they still maintain personal friendships as competing businessmen do.....It just is what it is...BTW....Demint is the leader of the Tea party caucus in the Senate.....but I guess you did not know that.

149 posted on 12/06/2012 10:09:06 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: mc5cents
“Harry Reid is a good friend of mine...” WTF!

So? I have lunch frequently with a friend who shows little regard for most of my politics. But we can still talk and have a good time talking about lots of other things. We conservatives have to take care not to implode on ourselves.
150 posted on 12/06/2012 10:09:30 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
Not a good sign at all.

DeMint is far smarter than the average bear. Obviously he has assessed the lay of the land and determined that if he stays in the Senate he is going to be awash in Leftist chuckleheads and GOP quislings for the rest of his natural life.

I agree with you. Sen DeMint has assessed the probability of Republicans becoming the permanent minority in the US Senate. Along with the probability of a Republican-controlled House that's lurching to the left at an accelerated pace, while its leadership purges all whiffs of conservatism from its ranks.

There's no point in Sen DeMint remaining in Congress only to helplessly watch the inevitable collapse. Those who remain and continue to perpetrate the hoax are only there for power and privilege. I actually have more respect for DeMint for going to Heritage.

We need a new foundation from which to rebuild from the ruins. The current foundation is entirely rotted and infested by termites. Perhaps the Heritage Foundation can be it.

The Republican party is dead and buried. I'd like for DeMint to have a voice in its replacement.

151 posted on 12/06/2012 10:13:11 AM PST by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: FR_addict

Okay. Maybe you’re right and Jim and Heritage are really socialist-oriented. Certainly the information you posted is valid. So that leaves Conservatism...where? Where does your thinking lead?


152 posted on 12/06/2012 10:13:15 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
So? I have lunch frequently with a friend who shows little regard for most of my politics. But we can still talk and have a good time talking about lots of other things.

You are right of course. I have several liberal friends and we just stay away from politics in order to remain friends. I just sort of spouted off in frustration I guess.

153 posted on 12/06/2012 10:16:07 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: Cold Heat
Yes I know that and he is leaving.

He can keep his friendship with Harry Reid, and you can say it is the way the senate does business, but it is only the Republicans who do this. The Democrats keep saying how racists and vile the Republicans are and the Republicans keep saying the Dems are their friends. I can only deduce that they say they are conservative to get elected. I have been disappointed with Republicans time and time again.

If Jim DeMint thinks of Harry Reid as a friend, he doesn't need to be leading the Tea Party Caucus. No wonder the Tea Party hasn't made much inroads in Congress.

154 posted on 12/06/2012 10:16:14 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: FR_addict
I can only deduce that they say they are conservative to get elected.

Bingo! We have a winner. But you're referring to Linseed rather than Jim, I hope.
155 posted on 12/06/2012 10:19:56 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: FR_addict
It goes back even further......Nixon like the idea....It was proposed to mandate health insurance to prevent the country from moving into government provided health care. It's been kicked around for a long time.

Republicans wanted it to remain in private hands....the Democrat's advocated more government control to control prices....they said......lol

Anyway.....the argument is over....they won it...sorta.....

The health care mandate is still largely private, but the government will eventually put the private companies out of business, taking it over entirely at some point before the entire financial system collapses as a result of it's own weight. That too was predicted some 200 years ago based largely on the premise that democratic civilizations rarely last more than 2-3 centuries anyway.......before they are crushed by their own spending on social demands.

156 posted on 12/06/2012 10:21:28 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Tau Food

LOL!


157 posted on 12/06/2012 10:24:29 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: Tau Food

Gonna leave a mark.....! LOL


158 posted on 12/06/2012 10:25:34 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: nutmeg
SC is one of the top states my husband and I are considering moving to "someday". I'm *really* hoping South Carolina stays RED! ;-)

With every national officeholder a Republican but one (Jim Clyburn), SC is one of the reddest states around.

I moved here in 2003 to retire and haven't looked back. Wonderful place, wonderful weather, wonderful people.

159 posted on 12/06/2012 10:25:45 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: FR_addict
I don't know if you noticed, but the Tea Party is being purged from leadership positions in the House and now I believe the Senate.

Judd Gregg totally insulted Demint in a interview this morning. He more or less trashed Demint, inferring that some election losses were the result of unelectable candidates that demint supported.....(That would be Tea Party)

So just keep firing your guns in a circular fashion and we will get this destruction of the GOP done much sooner.....sarcasm

160 posted on 12/06/2012 10:27:27 AM PST by Cold Heat
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