DeMint/Sanford ping!
Posted on 02/14/2009 10:30:29 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Their fight against Obama stimulus plan grabs GOP attention.
BY WAYNE WASHINGTON
One is a junior U.S. senator from a small, conservative state.
The other is a governor and former congressman known for sleeping on his couch in Washington and bringing pigs to the state Capitol to protest what he saw as pork-barrel spending.
Jim DeMint and Mark Sanford are major political players in South Carolina, but they have been blips on the national political screen.
Both men were among the most vocal and prominent opponents of the federal stimulus package that President Barack Obama could sign into law as soon as Monday. And both men are positioned to continue to oppose what they see as the big-government tendencies of the new president.
“We see the world very similarly from the standpoint of political philosophy,” Sanford said. “As a consequence, there is more than just a professional relationship. There is a set of values that we share on what’s important in the way the government’s constructed. We do come from very similar starting points on the need to limit government.
“He pushes from his end on the federal level, and I push from my end on the state level.”
The two spoke frequently as they contemplated ways to beat back a stimulus plan they think will burden the country with more debt and crowd out free-market opportunities to create jobs.
“I’m sure they said, ‘What can we do to stop this from happening?’” said Wesley Denton, DeMint’s spokesman.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...
“He pushes from his end on the federal level, and I push from my end on the state level.”
It appears that there is hope for America in 2010 and 2012.
DeMint/Sanford ping!
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I would go for Jim DeMint for President in 2012. DeMint/Palin would not be disagreed by me. Sanford??? I am just not impressed with him.
He supported nullification... excellent.
We know. You only like liberal Governors who kill their state parties, such as Slick Willard. Sorry, Mark Sanford’s party is flourishing under his excellent leadership. I know you hate that.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Sorry I am not getting into it today with you. I am preparing for Lent and you are my sacrifice this year. I am being nice to you until Easter...lol.
Of course not. That would require a combination of intelligence, sanity, character, reason and non-hypocrisy. All traits far out of reach of the Slick Willard disciple. G'night to you.
I am looking for Slick Willard you speak of and can’t find the name anywhere on my posts I have written you today. Can you help find this name on this thread???
bttt
Not so with Sanford.
“We’ve certainly had teams looking at the stimulus but for a different reason,” Sanford said. “I think it’s a gut-check vote on sort of this moral issue of, at the end of the day, borrowing money and printing money to pay for (a) current dilemma, but handing the tab to the next generation— to my and Jenny’s four boys, to your kids and grandkids— is wrong.”
God Bless and Keep these two. We have a lot of leftists and zero lovers down here so not only do they stand against the liberals all over the country but right here at home.
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I love these two! I am so jealous of you South Carolinians! You have warmer weather, and two great conservatives!
Oops, one does not belong.
The weasel at the bottom doesn’t belong.
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