Posted on 01/28/2015 5:49:19 AM PST by cotton1706
Long-simmering tensions between the Heritage Foundation, its sister political arm and House Republicans erupted Tuesday during a weekly meeting of conservatives, as GOP lawmakers confronted the nonprofit group’s leader behind closed doors.
Several Republican lawmakers unleashed on Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint — a former South Carolina senator — griping mostly about Heritage Action’s legislative scorecard. The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action are related groups, but the latter advocates for policy and has a scorecard that judges lawmakers’ voting records on Capitol Hill.
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The heated exchange comes just one day before conservative Republicans head to the Salamander Resort and Spa in Virginia for a retreat hosted by the Heritage Foundation.
The confrontation, which was described by several participants, came during a meeting of the Republican Study Committee, a conservative caucus led by Texas Rep. Bill Flores. Several lawmakers confronted DeMint, who leads the non-profit Heritage Foundation.
Georgia Rep. Austin Scott questioned how the conservative Heritage Action scores legislation.
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Which is why I came up with my conservative average (at least for the senate), averaging out all the ratings agencies so we'd be able to compare apples to apples, across every possible issue and vote.
If they voted as conservatives, they wouldn’t even have to ask...
Senators up for reelection in 2016:
Lee (UT) - 2016 - 99% (Average) - 100% (CReview) - 96% (Heritage) - 100% (CFG) - 100% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Paul (KY) - 2016 - 96% (Average) - 95% (CReview) - 92% (Heritage) - 97% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Scott (SC) - 2016 - 92% (Average) - 86% (CReview) - 85% (Heritage) - 94% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Rubio (FL) - 2016 - 90% (Average) - 80% (CReview) - 81% (Heritage) - 91% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Johnson (WI) - 2016 - 88% (Average) - 73% (CReview) - 84% (Heritage) - 87% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Crapo (ID) - 2016 - 84% (Average) - 78% (CReview) - 81% (Heritage) - 92% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Toomey (PA) - 2016 - 80% (Average) - 66% (CReview) - 71% (Heritage) - 93% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 91% (FreedomWorks)
Lankford (OK) - 2016 - 78% (Average) - 76% (CReview) - 80% (Heritage) - 70% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 84% (FreedomWorks)
Shelby (AL) - 2016 - 76% (Average) - 66% (CReview) - 75% (Heritage) - 82% (CFG) - 76% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Barrasso (WY) - 2016 - 75% (Average) - 67% (CReview) - 72% (Heritage) - 85% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Vitter (LA) - 2016 - 75% (Average) - 76% (CReview) - 68% (Heritage) - 78% (CFG) - 79% (ACU) - 73% (FreedomWorks)
Thune (SD) - 2016 - 71% (Average) - 60% (CReview) - 60% (Heritage) - 80% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Burr (NC) - 2016 - 69% (Average) - 55% (CReview) - 58% (Heritage) - 67% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Moran (KS) - 2016 - 69% (Average) - 62% (CReview) - 65% (Heritage) - 75% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Coats (IN) - 2016 - 66% (Average) - 49% (CReview) - 61% (Heritage) - 75% (CFG) - 83% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Boozman (AR) - 2016 - 64% (Average) - 49% (CReview) - 68% (Heritage) - 70% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Portman (OH) - 2016 - 63% (Average) - 56% (CReview) - 55% (Heritage) - 71% (CFG) - 64% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
McCain (AZ) - 2016 - 62% (Average) - 50% (CReview) - 52% (Heritage) - 71% (CFG) - 52% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Ayotte (NH) - 2016 - 59% (Average) - 44% (CReview) - 51% (Heritage) - 79% (CFG) - 68% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Blunt (MO) - 2016 - 58% (Average) - 35% (CReview) - 52% (Heritage) - 67% (CFG) - 71% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Isakson (GA) - 2016 - 55% (Average) - 44% (CReview) - 50% (Heritage) - 59% (CFG) - 54% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Hoeven (ND) - 2016 - 50% (Average) - 22% (CReview) - 42% (Heritage) - 58% (CFG) - 60% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Kirk (IL) - 2016 - 47% (Average) - 29% (CReview) - 39% (Heritage) - 74% (CFG) - 44% (ACU) - 50% (FreedomWorks)
Murkowski (AK) - 2016 - 31% (Average) - 22% (CReview) - 24% (Heritage) - 52% (CFG) - 38% (ACU) - 18% (FreedomWorks)
Full List:
Lee (UT) - 2016 - 99% (Average) - 100% (CReview) - 96% (Heritage) - 100% (CFG) - 100% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Paul (KY) - 2016 - 96% (Average) - 95% (CReview) - 92% (Heritage) - 97% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Cruz (TX) - 2018 - 96% (Average) - 95% (CReview) - 94% (Heritage) - 100% (CFG) - 100% (ACU) - 91% (FreedomWorks)
Scott (SC) - 2016 - 92% (Average) - 86% (CReview) - 85% (Heritage) - 94% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Rubio (FL) - 2016 - 90% (Average) - 80% (CReview) - 81% (Heritage) - 91% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Risch (ID) - 2020 - 89% (Average) - 82% (CReview) - 85% (Heritage) - 94% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 92% (FreedomWorks)
Johnson (WI) - 2016 - 88% (Average) - 73% (CReview) - 84% (Heritage) - 87% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Inhofe (OK) - 2020 - 88% (Average) - 81% (CReview) - 81% (Heritage) - 94% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 92% (FreedomWorks)
Sessions (AL) - 2020 - 88% (Average) - 80% (CReview) - 84% (Heritage) - 88% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 100% (FreedomWorks)
Cornyn (TX) - 2020 - 86% (Average) - 67% (CReview) - 80% (Heritage) - 93% (CFG) - 96% (ACU) - 92% (FreedomWorks)
Cotton (AR) - 2020 - 86% (Average) - 75% (CReview) - 82% (Heritage) - 92% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 90% (FreedomWorks)
Crapo (ID) - 2016 - 84% (Average) - 78% (CReview) - 81% (Heritage) - 92% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Grassley (IA) - 2020 - 83% (Average) - 76% (CReview) - 73% (Heritage) - 86% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 92% (FreedomWorks)
Roberts (KS) - 2020 - 81% (Average) - 62% (CReview) - 93% (Heritage) - 84% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 82% (FreedomWorks)
Toomey (PA) - 2016 - 80% (Average) - 66% (CReview) - 71% (Heritage) - 93% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 91% (FreedomWorks)
Enzi (WY) - 2020 - 80% (Average) - 70% (CReview) - 74% (Heritage) - 94% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 75% (FreedomWorks)
Lankford (OK) - 2016 - 78% (Average) - 76% (CReview) - 80% (Heritage) - 70% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 84% (FreedomWorks)
Shelby (AL) - 2016 - 76% (Average) - 66% (CReview) - 75% (Heritage) - 82% (CFG) - 76% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Barrasso (WY) - 2016 - 75% (Average) - 67% (CReview) - 72% (Heritage) - 85% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Vitter (LA) - 2016 - 75% (Average) - 76% (CReview) - 68% (Heritage) - 78% (CFG) - 79% (ACU) - 73% (FreedomWorks)
McConnell (KY) - 2020 - 75% (Average) - 60% (CReview) - 68% (Heritage) - 87% (CFG) - 92% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Heller (NV) - 2018 - 73% (Average) - 54% (CReview) - 65% (Heritage) - 89% (CFG) - 83% (ACU) - 73% (FreedomWorks)
Thune (SD) - 2016 - 71% (Average) - 60% (CReview) - 60% (Heritage) - 80% (CFG) - 88% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Fischer (NE) - 2018 - 71% (Average) - 55% (CReview) - 66% (Heritage) - 74% (CFG) - 76% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Daines (MT) - 2020 - 71% (Average) - 60% (CReview) - 58% (Heritage) - 77% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 80% (FreedomWorks)
Gardner (CO) - 2020 - 70% (Average) - 68% (CReview) - 56% (Heritage) - 69% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 75% (FreedomWorks)
Burr (NC) - 2016 - 69% (Average) - 55% (CReview) - 58% (Heritage) - 67% (CFG) - 84% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Moran (KS) - 2016 - 69% (Average) - 62% (CReview) - 65% (Heritage) - 75% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Flake (AZ) - 2018 - 69% (Average) - 43% (CReview) - 62% (Heritage) - 84% (CFG) - 71% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Coats (IN) - 2016 - 66% (Average) - 49% (CReview) - 61% (Heritage) - 75% (CFG) - 83% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Cassidy (LA) - 2020 - 65% (Average) - 61% (CReview) - 58% (Heritage) - 64% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 60% (FreedomWorks)
Boozman (AR) - 2016 - 64% (Average) - 49% (CReview) - 68% (Heritage) - 70% (CFG) - 80% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Hatch (UT) - 2018 - 64% (Average) - 60% (CReview) - 55% (Heritage) - 76% (CFG) - 75% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Portman (OH) - 2016 - 63% (Average) - 56% (CReview) - 55% (Heritage) - 71% (CFG) - 64% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
McCain (AZ) - 2016 - 62% (Average) - 50% (CReview) - 52% (Heritage) - 71% (CFG) - 52% (ACU) - 83% (FreedomWorks)
Corker (TN) - 2018 - 62% (Average) - 56% (CReview) - 49% (Heritage) - 75% (CFG) - 64% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Graham (SC) - 2020 - 60% (Average) - 53% (CReview) - 50% (Heritage) - 65% (CFG) - 68% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Ayotte (NH) - 2016 - 59% (Average) - 44% (CReview) - 51% (Heritage) - 79% (CFG) - 68% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Blunt (MO) - 2016 - 58% (Average) - 35% (CReview) - 52% (Heritage) - 67% (CFG) - 71% (ACU) - 64% (FreedomWorks)
Isakson (GA) - 2016 - 55% (Average) - 44% (CReview) - 50% (Heritage) - 59% (CFG) - 54% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Wicker (MS) - 2018 - 55% (Average) - 34% (CReview) - 47% (Heritage) - 68% (CFG) - 60% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Cochran (MS) - 2020 - 53% (Average) - 39% (CReview) - 54% (Heritage) - 56% (CFG) - 60% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Alexander (TN) - 2020 - 51% (Average) - 26% (CReview) - 49% (Heritage) - 67% (CFG) - 60% (ACU) - 55% (FreedomWorks)
Hoeven (ND) - 2016 - 50% (Average) - 22% (CReview) - 42% (Heritage) - 58% (CFG) - 60% (ACU) - 67% (FreedomWorks)
Capito (WV) - 2020 - 50% (Average) - 42% (CReview) - 47% (Heritage) - 49% (CFG) - 56% (ACU) - 58% (FreedomWorks)
Kirk (IL) - 2016 - 47% (Average) - 29% (CReview) - 39% (Heritage) - 74% (CFG) - 44% (ACU) - 50% (FreedomWorks)
Murkowski (AK) - 2016 - 31% (Average) - 22% (CReview) - 24% (Heritage) - 52% (CFG) - 38% (ACU) - 18% (FreedomWorks)
Collins (ME) - 2020 - 27% (Average) - 12% (CReview) - 24% (Heritage) - 39% (CFG) - 28% (ACU) - 33% (FreedomWorks)
Ernst (IA) - 2020 - - - - - -
Perdue (GA) - 2020 - - - - - -
Rounds (SD) - 2020 - - - - - -
Sasse (NE) - 2020 - - - - - -
Sullivan (AK) - 2020 - - - - - -
Tillis (NC) - 2020 - - - - - -
The students don’t like how they’re teacher is grading them so instead of working to get a better grade they just want to file false charges agInst him, get him fired, so hey can get an “easy” teacher? That’s about it, right?
Plunderers Confront DeMint? They have stolen DeMint.
Scoring plunderers past and present is easy “E”pic and “F”ail.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
/Bastiat
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act.
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One
/Freneau
Looks like Murkowski has got to go. RINO #1
#2 How do we convince McCain to retire.
Well we got rid of RINO Chambliss last year and we hope to primary RINO Isakson next year.
He’s not on anyone’s radar, but he is on mine.
I could easily see Jim DeMint being a strong contender for the Republican presidential race in ‘16.
Murkowski is not a Republican. She was defeated in the GOP primary and “won” on the strength of liberal voters in Alaska.
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