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Sen. Jim DeMint to Head Heritage Foundation (leaving US Senate in January)
WSJ ^

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 112th; demint; feulner; goinggalt; heritagefoundation; jimdemint; retirement; whoisjohngalt
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To: Resettozero
“So that leaves Conservatism...where? Where does your thinking lead?”

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.

161 posted on 12/06/2012 10:28:32 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: Tau Food
I’d say that Nikki Haley might appoint herself, but most South Carolinians probably think that at least one of the state’s senators should be a male.

Man, you're slick! That slid past me first go-around. You're absolutely correct but I try not to bring one's...err...tastes...into the argument.
162 posted on 12/06/2012 10:28:53 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: FR_addict

I understand and agree with these points.


163 posted on 12/06/2012 10:30:52 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: FR_addict
Looks like the earlier report by Fox Business that Reid was trying to schedule a debt ceiling vote today in response to a GOP offer was in error. McConnell just blocked any such vote today.
164 posted on 12/06/2012 10:31:58 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Resettozero
I wasn't referring to anyone in particular. But I can't understand why DeMint went on Rush's show and made a comment about being a good friend of Harry Reid's.

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.

165 posted on 12/06/2012 10:36:34 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: FR_addict
Taking your marbles and going home eh?

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..

166 posted on 12/06/2012 10:38:30 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Perdogg

This is terrible news!!!

I agree this is devastating!


167 posted on 12/06/2012 10:44:03 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: FR_addict
How can Jim DeMint be good friends with someone who calls Republicans vile, racists and criminals.

I think it's more of a Christian thing than any other reason.
168 posted on 12/06/2012 10:48:30 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
Draw your own conclusions from the paper:

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).

169 posted on 12/06/2012 10:51:37 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Resettozero

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....


170 posted on 12/06/2012 10:55:36 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: 1rudeboy

Egads! One long paragraph. Okay, Teach; I’ll read it but I won’t like it.


171 posted on 12/06/2012 10:55:42 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
There's nothing to teach, other than it's a political football . . . and with political footballs, it's best to read from the source.

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.

172 posted on 12/06/2012 11:04:03 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Cold Heat
In my view senators never should have been subjected to elections either...

I would be interested in studying about the how and why the change was made years ago. I must have been thinking something more important that day in school.
173 posted on 12/06/2012 11:06:49 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: 1rudeboy
...it's best to read from the source.

(Low T'ealc voice) Indeed. Always true.
174 posted on 12/06/2012 11:11:08 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

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...


175 posted on 12/06/2012 11:15:08 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: upchuck

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.


176 posted on 12/06/2012 11:18:39 AM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Cold Heat

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


177 posted on 12/06/2012 11:22:09 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Theodore R.
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.

I kept looking for a hidden sarcasm-off tag but, finding none, I must not be understanding your sentences correctly. In South Carolina, motorcycles and Dodge vans do not get along well together.
178 posted on 12/06/2012 11:26:55 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
Must have been they way I constructed the sentence.....I was referring to the Constitution rewrite movement in the late 50s and early 60s.....

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.

179 posted on 12/06/2012 11:27:08 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Resettozero
Take 2

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.

I kept looking for a hidden sarcasm-off tag but, finding none, I must not be understanding your sentences correctly. In South Carolina, motorcycles and Dodge vans do not get along well together.
180 posted on 12/06/2012 11:29:38 AM PST by Resettozero
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