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Flashback: DeMint Warns New GOP Tea-Party Backed Senators: Don’t Sell Out
Many of the people who will be welcoming the new class of Senate conservatives to Washington never wanted you here in the first place. The establishment is much more likely to try to buy off your votes than to buy into your limited-government philosophy. Consider what former GOP senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott told the Washington Post earlier this year: “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them...”
... Don’t let them. Co-option is coercion. Washington operates on a favor-based economy and for every earmark, committee assignment or fancy title that’s given, payback is expected in return. The chits come due when the roll call votes begin. This is how big-spending bills that everyone always decries in public always manage to pass with just enough votes.
But someone can’t be bribed if they aren’t for sale...
... Tea party Republicans were elected to go to Washington and save the country—not be co-opted by the club. So put on your boxing gloves. The fight begins today.
I truly believe that Jim DeMint has been quietly working behind the scenes for more years than most Americans know to get us closer to a conservative American government. He has power that not many people understand.
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jimbo123, DeMint did not capitulate.
DeMint’s speech on the Senate floor this evening is a worthwhile listen. Unlike his fellow Republicans, DeMint knows what TEA membership is about.
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I don’t agree with DeMint 100% of the time, but I do agree with him 95% of the time, and this is one of those times. DeMint is a really good man.