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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I was hoping for a unified TeaParty.
I can't figure out what is going on with Freedom Works and Dick Armey.
They helped to organize the original TeaParty marches on Washington, but then seemed to disappear. I went to the first one and signed up for the FreeRepublic convention and thoroughly enjoyed that time.
It just seems that we need to get more involved in the TeaParty. There seems to be too many factions of the TeaParty. I don't know which ones to join and which ones are a waste of time and money.
I have to admit I haven't joined the local ones. I plan to very soon. I've given up on the local Republican party.
It just seems to me a lot of groups that were once very conservative are becoming Democrat lite and I'm not going to bother with them.
I understand and agree with these points.
I saw a lot of posts here from people who have liberal friends, but they don't talk politics to keep that friendship. I actually have a liberal friend and we don't talk politics either, since we are both respectful of each other. But if that friend told me that Republicans are vile and racists, they would not be a friend anymore. This happened with someone I had been friends with since high school. If she didn't respect me enough not to say something like that, then she wasn't a friend.
How can Jim DeMint be good friends with someone who calls Republicans vile, racists and criminals.
That is exactly what the Democrats have been trying to do for a number of years...looks like it all worked......
The party known as the GOP has split.....again.....cuz we have seen this many times before...The last time it happened we were out in the cold for 30 years....
Which is why I am not going to be trying to fix it this time....too old and tired....Gonna go Galt and cover up...can't bear to watch it again. Don't have the energy anymore to fight it. But you just keep on doin what your doin...,.it will all be over soon...
The House has already split, and the Senate is now cracked and bleeding.......Just a matter of time....and it won't be very much time...2014 will tell the story..
This is terrible news!!!
I agree this is devastating!
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/assuring-affordable-health-care-for-all-americans.
Don't have someone tell you what it says. (The line that Heritage is in favor of socialized healthcare was effectively used by the Dems).
Those vile comments came from the soldiers in the liberal movements.....not the Senate....they are insulated from the day to day fighting...
It’s important that we effort to keep it that way...without it, the government devolves into a democratic rabble. no better than a Parlimentary system. But again, taking away the Republic format for governing is another effort long undertaken by Liberals.......Populist solcialists really...
In my view senators never should have been subjected to elections either.....but I’m a bit old fashioned....
Egads! One long paragraph. Okay, Teach; I’ll read it but I won’t like it.
As with most think-tank stuff, you then get bogged-down in the details, and before any misconceptions can get corrected they've been reposted a dozen times elsewhere.
For example, Heritage came-out "in favor" of Romney's healthcare plan in Massachusetts. In fact, it came-out in favor of the free-market aspects of his plan. That did not stop opponents of Heritage from claiming that it was in favor of the final version of the plan, that did not resemble the original.
It was.......”shocked face” A fairness argument...
They felt it was undemocratic.....In my view it was the first chink in the armor of the Constitution that fell and led to movements much later to essentially rewrite it. That happened back when I was a kid....I recall teachers advocating it in classes for kids as young as 8 or 9 years old...
I found this summer 2012 that SC drivers are the most courteous in the nation. They are always willing to yield so long as doing so does not cause an accident.
With reverence and all due respect, are you sure you were in class in 1913?
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Direct_Election_Senators.htm
I believe the changes made regarding the Senate to be elected as oppose to appointed, has led to a indifference expressed by the public toward the importance of the Constitution....They really don't pay attention to it anymore and go around it or misstate it's intent.
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