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Posted on 08/30/2009 7:13:25 PM PDT by reaganaut1
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Senator Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who predicted that President Obama’s effort to overhaul the health care system would become his “Waterloo,” is doing his best to make that happen.
Taking questions from a friendly crowd of 500 people here the other day, Mr. DeMint reinforced their worst fears about health care in particular and the government in general.
When one man said the major House bill on health care would give the government electronic access to bank accounts, Mr. DeMint told him that the bill was never about health care. “This is about more government control,” he declared. “If it was about health care, we could get it done in a couple of weeks.”
Mr. DeMint, 57, is a first-term senator, a back-bencher with little influence in Washington’s corridors of power. But at home he is stoking anger over the health care issue as he advances his free-market philosophy, gains national attention and, perhaps, helps derail Mr. Obama’s agenda.
If that agenda is not stopped at health care, Mr. DeMint warned at a town-hall-style meeting in Greenville, “he’ll continue to spend and borrow this country into oblivion.”
Mr. DeMint is popular in the Greenville-Spartanburg area, the reddest region of this ruby red state and the area he first represented in Congress. He is running for re-election next year and so far has no challengers. State Senator Brad Hutto, a Democrat, had been considering a run, but Phil Bailey, political director of the State Senate Democratic caucus, said Friday that Mr. Hutto had decided against it. At the same time, most of the state’s political oxygen is being consumed by Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican, who has been battling calls for his resignation since he admitted to an extramarital affair.
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Many Freepers would enjoy DeMint's speech, "DeMint Responds to Obama's Takeover of Health Care" at his site , which describes the "health care change" he *does* support.
Tort Reform would be the BEST health care reform and would take all of one page to do so. Second page would be denying ANCHOR babies and billing Mexico every time the USofA delivers a baby for them.
1000 plus pages of sneaky snake language to control the people.
Those Sheeple better be glad we’re alert and working for EVERYONE, including them.
The last time they felt the need to declare someone a backbencher was Tancredo during the amnesty fight. You can smell their fear.
[[When one man said the major House bill on health care would give the government electronic access to bank accounts,]]
Margarette- didn’t we used to have $50,000 in the savings account?”
John- You went in for a root canal, remember? I’ts the govenrments money now you big silly”
Some here don’t like Senator DeMint as a presidential candidate in 2012, because he’s a senator.
Senate or no senate, this man SHOULD run!!!
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There's been some talk about replacing everyone in DC. I trust Sen DeMint will be on the very short list of those we let stay.
The 2008 POTUS run threw that reasoning out on its butt.
Right! Go Jim Go!!!
The New York Slimes
[[I trust Sen DeMint will be on the very short list of those we let stay. ]]
I hope so- He’s one of the very few wit hte guts and intellectual honesty andm oral standards to stand up and actually speak out in BLUNT termionology agaisnt the evil policies of ollama- most other politicians sugar coat their ‘opposition’ with cutsie little euphamisms that have lost hteir sting because they are afraid of upsettign hte rank and file, and possibly losing hteir jobs- We NEED more senators liek Demint who aren’t so enamuered with hteir power and position that they refuse to speak evil i nthe sight of hte annointed one- ollama
I’m open to DeMint in 2012. I just hope he doesn’t endorse Mitt Romney again.
Right!
A rey ou tryi ngto b efunny?
Demint has more experience than obamma had in congress.
A rey ou tryi ngto b eanass?
If, and ONLY IF, he finds someone just as tough to run for his seat! We need all the DeMints we can get in Congress.
Don’t call it the Health Care Bill. Refer to it as the Health Control Bill.
One thing is for sure. DeMint would be a big improvement over that McCain lap dog, Lindsay Graham. After that amnesty debacle the only thing getting Graham’s ugly face off the tube was Ted Kenendy’s exit.
The Republican Party under George W. Bush and the upper echelon Republicans have come close to destroying the Party. The “big tent” included a bunch of undercover Democrats who spit on the Party base. It is time for them to be kicked to the curb.
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