Posted on 12/06/2012 7:31:44 AM PST by Perdogg
Ha!!
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.
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!
Amen to that! Thanks for all your pings.
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.
Yes, that is what I said. They are playing games with us.
Individual health care insurance mandate has roots two decades long
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.”
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
LOL!
Gonna leave a mark.....! LOL
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.
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
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