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U.S. Senator Jim DeMint is the one who stated several weeks ago that ObamaCare could be Barack's "Waterloo". It does seem that his prediction is coming true. This article spotlights DeMint's huge town hall meeting in Myrtle Beach including a video of his intro speech and all 3 local news coverage videos. Also, there's a small photo gallery. I was there. This Senator is developing a strong following for his unwavering conservative stands. Jim DeMint Speaks to Packed House in Myrtle Beach

Well I got the opportunity to sit in on a tele-town hall last night with Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN). First thought afterward... we live in an awesome country. I feel that way whenever I, a plebe, can participate in the workings of our Republic. The tele-town hall was hosted by Americans for Prosperity's Tim Phillips. (I had the opportunity to interview the Texas State Director, Peggy Venable, back in April for my Texas Starts With T mini-doc.) Anyway, if you're a regular reader, you know how much I love Michele Bachmann, especially for her...

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint is the one who stated several weeks ago that ObamaCare could be Barack's "Waterloo". It does seem that his prediction is coming true. This article spotlights DeMint's huge town hall meeting in Myrtle Beach including a video of his intro speech and all 3 local news coverage videos. Also, there's a small photo gallery. I was there. This Senator is developing a strong following for his unwavering conservative stands. Jim DeMint Speaks to Packed House in Myrtle Beach

Complete with videos and photos, this article spotlights U.S. Senator Jim Demint's town hall meeting in Myrtle Beach, SC. He spoke openly against ObamaCare and in favor of the Health Care Freedom Plan. When asked to explain his "Waterloo" comment about Obama, he stated that he meant that we need to break Obama's momentum so that he starts listening to the American people.

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DeMint: Start over on healthcare reformSenator tells local crowd to stop Democratic effort by Greg Hambrick August 17, 2009 Sen. Jim DeMint called on congressional leaders to scrap the entire healthcare reform effort and start over, voicing his opposition to the latest floated compromise — a co-op alternative that would negate some of the uproar over an affordable government-run insurance option. Town hall meetings across the country have brought out conservatives concerned about increased federal bureaucracy and, most notably, fringe elements intent on fanning misconceptions and false rumors about reform efforts. But DeMint (R-S.C.) was preaching to the choir at...

David Cameron was fighting last night to prevent the Tories again being labelled the 'nasty party' after one of his Euro MPs denounced the National Health Service. The Tory leader slapped down Daniel Hannan after he went on U.S. television to brand the NHS a '60-year failure' that he 'wouldn't wish on anybody'. Hannan joined forces with U.S. critics opposed to Barack Obama's healthcare reforms. They have described the British system as evil, Orwellian and a breeding ground for terrorists. Mr Hannan said: 'I find it incredible that a free people living in a country dedicated and founded in the...

Watch video: http://www.cardealerreviews.org/?p=116354 from CDR

Senator Jim DeMint’s office says he will sponsor a town hall meeting on August 20. The town hall meeting will be at the Beacon Restaurant on John B. White, Sr. Boulevard in Spartanburg beginning at 11:45am. Click on the Beacon link for directions.

Vocal S.C. senator has become conservatives’ point man. BY JAMES ROSEN WASHINGTON — Soft-spoken, slight of physical stature and not even the senior senator in his own state, Jim DeMint isn’t the most likely choice to fill the role of one-man Obama wrecking crew. Yet the first-term S.C. Republican quickly has emerged as a leading voice of opposition to President Obama’s bid to overhaul the U.S. health care system with new or expanded federal government programs. . . . . . “This is a battle I’ve been waiting for and hoping for, for years,” DeMint told McClatchy newspapers. “We’ve got...

Senator Jim Demint to hold town hall meeting in the LowcountryRaymond Owens Published: August 7, 2009 U.S. Senator Jim Demint will be holding a town hall meeting on Daniel Island August 17th. The meeting is scheduled to take place at the Daniel Island Club. He is expected to take questions from the audience about the economy, health care and other issues. Senator Demint is also scheduled to talk to News 2 live on News 2 at 5:30 that evening. Then on Tuesday, August 18th, he will speak at the Charleston Rotary’s lunch. That takes place at 12:30 at the Citadel...

WASHINGTON -- Southern writer Walker Percy liked to poke fun at Ohioans in his novels, just to even things out a bit. "Usually Mississippians and Georgians are getting it from everybody, and Alabamians," he once explained to an interviewer. "So, what's wrong with making smart-aleck remarks about Ohio? Nobody puts Ohio down. Why shouldn't I put Ohio down?" Percy, the genial genius, laughed at his own remark. Now, apparently, it's the Buckeye State's turn to poke back. In a fusillade of pique, Ohio Sen. George Voinovich charged that Southerners are what's wrong with the Republican Party. "We got too many...

The fate of the "Cash for Clunkers" program will be decided this week, depending on whether or not the Senate votes before leaving for its August recess. Senate Democrats are struggling to win over enough reluctant Republicans to pass a $2 billion extension of the popular rebate program that gives consumers up to $4,500 to trade in their old gas guzzlers for more fuel-efficient vehicles. Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has been an outspoken opponent of the program, calling it on Sunday indicative of the "stupidity that's coming out of Washington right now." On CBS' "Early Show" Tuesday, DeMint said, "This...

DeMint: 'Shazam, we've sold some cars!' @ 12:10 pm by Eric Zimmermann Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is no fan of "cash for clunkers," and he made the morning television rounds today to press his case against pouring more money into the depleted program. "It's not fair to borrow this money and charge it to people who aren't buying cars so that a few can buy cars," DeMint said on CNN's American Morning. "We can't manage the economy from Washington." The South Carolina Republican said the urgency to add funding to the program is just another example of a spend-happy Congress....

Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Chairman of the Senate Steering Committee and member of the Senate Banking Committee, appeared on Fox News Sunday with host Chris Wallace and U.S. Representative Charles Rangel (D-New York). The following are excerpts from the discussion on today’s program: On Democrat goal of government takeover of health care: DEMINT: Well, people are starting to figure out that the president is on record, Congressman Rangel’s on record, for wanting a single-payer government health care system in America. So the debate’s really between the Democrats and the American people right now. And what we wanted...

The Talk Shows Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.; Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council.; former Reps. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn., and J.C. Watts, R-Okla.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Summers.THIS WEEK (ABC): Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (Michelle Malkin on Roundtable).STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz; Christina Romer, head of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Republicans in the Senate could block Congress from providing another $2 billion to keep the popular "Cash-for-Clunkers" program alive. "The role of the federal government is not to run the used car business," South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint said on Fox New Sunday. "I just think this is a great example of the stupidity coming out of Washington right now." But, with one week to go before the Senate wraps up its work for the summer, the conservative South Carolina Republican would not commit to filibustering a bill that would shift $2 billion from the stimulus to the popular rebate...

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Republican Party hasn't learned from the thrashing it took at the hands of Barack Obama in November. While the party showed a semblance of unity and purpose when it lost the election, that sense of being seems to have disappeared. While Michael Steele may be the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, it remains apparent that more Republicans follow the dictates of radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh, you may recall, is the guy who said he hopes President Obama fails. If Obama fails, so too does the nation. But the...

God love Joe Biden. Every time he opens his mouth, a gaffe of some dimension falls out of it, giving us a steady stream of material. In this clip, Biden makes a momentary mistake of bragging about cutting pay checks rather than payroll taxes, but makes the far bigger mistake of repeating ad nauseam about Porkulus critics, “What would they do?” At times, it almost seemed as though Joe broke TOTUS again and his text wouldn’t move.

Political headlines on health care and the Supreme Court have offered competing visions for the future of the Republican Party, and "(R-S.C.)" has played a prominent role in both debates. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the gang of 14 that ended partisan deadlocks on previous Supreme Court nominees, won praise for his sometimes thoughtful (though occasionally condescending) questioning of President Barack Obama's pick for the court, Sonia Sotomayor. Last week, he bucked his party's leadership and supported her nomination. When challenged by conservatives in his own party, he told Politico he had no time for "blind ideology." Sen. Jim DeMint,...

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C., July 27 -- On the second floor of the Lexington Medical Center here, Burrell Best, 37, an electrical engineer, and his wife celebrated the birth of their second daughter and voiced fear about the government-run health-care plan being pushed by leading congressional Democrats: "I've just never been a government-takeover kind of guy." Five floors above him, J.B. Barker, 85, a retired truck driver, sat in a bed recovering from heart and lung congestion problems. Lunching on pepperoni pizza and Pepsi with his wife, Ellen, sitting at his side, Barker said that he does not want Washington meddling...

WASHINGTON — Sen. George Voinovich's comments about the U.S. Senate's southern caucus reverberated in Washington today. But publicly, one of the southerners Voinovich criticized declined to lash back this afternoon. And Voinovich's own campaign finance records show he has had no problem whistling Dixie. The story begins with a conversation the Ohio Republican had with editors from the Columbus Dispatch. When asked about the GOP's biggest problem, Voinovich told the Columbus newspaper: "We got too many Jim DeMints (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburns (R-Ok.). It's the southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, 'These...

Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) was the only member of the Senate to receive a 100-percent score on the American Conservative Union's "Defenders of Liberty" rating -- and he was recently ranked as the Senate's most conservative member by the National Journal. DeMint's book is called Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism. He says cornerstones like limited government, individual responsibility, free enterprise, and the rule of law are all under attack. "These things are all being undermined, particularly [in] the last six months. This stampede to spend money to expand our debt and grow the government --...

Asked about recent comments Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.) and James Inhofe (OK) have made, suggesting that GOP would benefit politically if President Obama’s health care agenda was stalled, Republican Whip Jon Kyl said, “I don’t agree with that kind of language.” “Because the language has a political implication,” Kyl added, “I think that’s unfortunate. Both sides talk about the politics of this. I don’t think we should be focused on that.” A week ago, Demint evoked Napoleonic metaphor, saying, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” Speaking to conservative...

It has been a really bad week for the President. He has just about pissed off the entire country except for the people that would vote for him even if he was born on Mars. Was Jim DeMint right about this being the President’s Waterloo? I’m beginning to really believe the President has surrounded himself with idiots. After six months in office, his administration is starting to look like the “Bad News Bears”. Is this the beginning of the “Seventh Coalition” against OBamaCare? The Liberals are so mad they can’t even spell. The liberals will also soon learn about “Tea...

Transparency at the central bank is a serious question. It deserves a serious answer. The Federal Reserve Board's independence is a bit like the judiciary's independence. Absolutely vital for the institution's proper functioning, it nevertheless depends on Congress and the president to respect decisions with which they disagree. In such cases, the best protection for either the Supreme Court or the Fed is to stay strictly within its legally prescribed authority and to act according to principled criteria: legal ones for the justices, technical economic ones for the central bank. Which brings us to the proposed Federal Reserve Transparency Act,...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday said he opposed legislation moving on Capitol Hill that would allow the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, to audit the central bank's monetary policy goals. "We are more than happy to work with the GAO and open to giving them broad authority to look at various aspects of our operations, including our responses to the financial crisis, but we are worried that an audit of monetary policy would result in a reduction of the independence of the Fed," Bernanke told lawmakers at a hearing on regulatory reform on...

A conservative reader makes the point that -- contrary to a recent Democratic National Committee ad -- one thing it's probably unfair to accuse Senator Jim DeMint of is not having a plan. "The only health care plan Jim DeMint supports is no plan at all," says the ad. Actually, while the lack of serious health care alternatives on the right is a major Republican problem, DeMint is an exception to that rule. He's been pushing his own (very conservative) comprehensive health care plan since 2005. The slogan: "Insures More Americans in Half the Time at No Cost." DeMint's plan...

The Republican lawmaker who has referred to healthcare as President Barack Obama's "Waterloo" says it's "not personal," but he's not backing down. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) is sticking by his statement that President Obama's healthcare reform plan will sink his presidency. He says someone needs to "put the brakes on" Obama's spending spree. DeMint, who recently released a book titled Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism, says Obama's healthcare plan must be stopped. "The president has been on a rampage, and we've got to stop him. So this isn't personal; it's not political; it's about really...

Jim Demint On Cavuto responding to Obama HERE

Senate GOP leaders worry that some of their colleagues are misplaying their hand on health care reform by suggesting that they want to kill the plan in order to hurt the president. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said last week that, if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, “it will be his Waterloo, it will break him.”

RUSH: Now, look I understand it, folks, I totally understand it, but I gotta caution you again. I think people are way too giddy out there on this health care business. I think Obama's close to going over the edge. I hope nobody talks about his big ears within his earshot today, because this is a guy who grew up charmed, he grew up never laughed at, never teased, never kidded, and probably never criticized. He doesn't deal with this very well, and if somebody within his earshot today happens to talk about his big ears it could push him...

In an interview, we asked the author of the new book Saving Freedom about Alaska Governor Palin's future: "I think she'll be an outspoken spokesperson for the principles of freedom and conservatism, and I think she will really help the Republican Party, just like

Yesterday, I wrote that Senator DeMint had made a mistake by proclaiming that failure on health care reform would be President Obama's waterloo. The reason is that this statement allowed the president to try and change the dynamics of the debate by claiming that opponents were politicizing the health care debate. (Via Jammie Wearing Fools) Now, we have this from Senator Chuck Grassley. Let's just lay everything on the table," Grassley said. "A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn't going to...

A Republican senator unhappy with U.S. policy on Honduras delayed on Tuesday a committee vote to confirm the nominee to head the State Department's bureau of western hemisphere affairs. Conservative Senator Jim DeMint, who has expressed concern over Washington's call for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to be reinstated, invoked his right to ask the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to postpone voting to confirm Arturo Valenzuela, currently a professor at Georgetown University, to be assistant secretary of state. DeMint also asked for a delay in confirming Thomas Shannon as U.S. ambassador to Brazil. Shannon currently holds the assistant secretary's post....

The senator said healthcare would be Obama's 'Waterloo' – if Obama lost, it would break him. Now, Obama is using the comment as an example of crass Beltway obstructionism. Washington - “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” When Jim DeMint uttered those words late last week, he did the president a favor. In one memorable line, the Republican senator from South Carolina turned the healthcare debate into a personal battle against President Obama. Suddenly, Mr. Obama has a foil. “The Party of No” – the Democrats’ name for Republicans...

Sen. Jim DeMint doesn't seem ready to stop making headlines. The folksy South Carolina conservative and arch opponent to President Obama made news this week when he said that the administration's healthcare plan would prove to be Obama's "Waterloo." In an unrelated interview, we asked the author of the new book Saving Freedom about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's future, and that of former Vice President Dick Cheney. On both, DeMint seemed to indicate that their future wasn't in the White House. DeMint suggested that Cheney's recent involvement in the public debate was focused on correcting what the former veep sees...

Here is video of Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina talking with Neil Cavuto about President Obama's attacks on him in recent days for opposing his Government Health Care Plan. DeMint said, "We've got to stop him," because Obama wants to continue his takeover of one area of the American economy after another. DeMint said recently that if Obama is defeated on Health Care, "this will be his Waterloo." DeMint said Republicans "cannot let Obama roll over us in the next couple of weeks." DeMint believes if Obama can be stopped on Health Care, he could be stopped on Cap...

Winston Churchill once said, "Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide". What he meant was that when your political opponents are fighting amongst themselves, generally acting chaotically, and acting incompetently that's the time to stand back and stay above the fray. Under no circumstances should you get in the mud with them. Senator Jim DeMint should have heeded Churchill's advice. That he didn't gave President Obama the political opening to try and change the dynamics of the health care debate. A couple days back, Senator DeMint famously uttered these words.

WASHINGTON - A Republican senator unhappy with U.S. policy on Honduras delayed on Tuesday a committee vote to confirm the nominee to head the State Department's bureau of western hemisphere affairs. Conservative Senator Jim DeMint, who has expressed concern over Washington's call for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to be reinstated, invoked his right to ask the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to postpone voting to confirm Arturo Valenzuela, currently a professor at Georgetown University, to be assistant secretary of state. DeMint also asked for a delay in confirming Thomas Shannon as U.S. ambassador to Brazil. Shannon currently holds the assistant...

Here is audio of South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on the radio yesterday with "The Great One" - Mark Levin, where he talked about President Obama's Government Health Care Plan. DeMint said he is trying to stop the "mad rush" to adopt this legislation. They also talked about DeMint's comment that if Obama fails to get his plan enacted, "it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." DeMint said that Obama knows that is true, and that is why Obama is trying so hard to pass it quickly. He knows Americans will reject it if they have time to...

Is a leader emerging to take on Obama’s insanity? DeMint sticks to principles and stands up where others are wish-washy in the shadows. Today I was flipping through the radio dial and ran up on NPR. DeMint had apparently told some activist that if we can stop Obama on his socialist healthcare it could be his waterloo. They really wanted to play Obama’s response to DeMint defending his healthcare over and over. He stated it wasn’t about him. Out of the other side of his mouth he said we have talked this topic to death and we need immediate action,...

As of this writing, every single Republican in the House and over 60 Democrats have co-sponsored Ron Paul’s H.R. 1207 Federal Reserve Transparency Act, which calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve. Given the current economic crisis, it turns out that many legislators are eager to see just how the Fed is able to print new money out of thin air. In the 1980’s, Paul introduced similar legislation with virtually no help from his fellow Republicans. In 2009, the entire party has lined up behind Ron Paul. And big kudos are in order for one Republican who has gone...

Last week I was very pleased that hearings were held on the independence of the Federal Reserve system. My bill HR 1207, known as the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, was discussed at length, as well as the general question of whether or not the Federal Reserve should continue to operate independently. The public is demanding transparency in government like never before. A majority of the House has cosponsored HR 1207. Yet, Senator Jim DeMint’s heroic efforts to attach it to another piece of legislation elicited intense opposition by the Senate leadership. The hearings on Capitol Hill provided us with a...

Why are Democratic lawmakers so eager to shield the Federal Reserve Board from public scrutiny?After Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) used a procedural trick in the U.S. Senate to torpedo a longshot legislative bid that would have had the Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit the Fed, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) expressed his disappointment on the "Glenn Beck Program": Frankly, a lot of us here in this country and around the world, are concerned that we're going to destroy the American dollar and the worldwide reserve currency. DeMint told substitute host Judge Andrew Napolitano that If we could get the Federal Reserve under control, it would make it more difficult for...

Senator Jim DeMint spoke with Washington News Observer on the shocking response from the Obama Administration in response to Honduras. “I am just at a loss to understsand why the Obama Administration is saying that this was an illegal coup and that the constitutional process was interrupted. The facts don’t appear to back them up.” “When the United States is on the side of Chavez, who hates us, who’s trying to organize the whole region against us, we’ve just got to ask if we’re on the right side. Chavez, Ortega, the Castro brothers are clearly not on the side of...

From DeMint's twitter....please watch "Let's keep up the pressure to end the secrecy at Federal Reserve, urge your senator to cosponsor S.604"

Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is blocked by Senate Democrat Leadership from having a vote on his amendment to audit the Federal Reserve, based on a bill authored by Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) in the House, H.R. 1207, and Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) in the Senate, S. 604.

This amendment would require all 700 miles of physical pedestrian fencing on the southern border to be completed by December 31st, 2010.

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