Can I get an AMEN!? My blood boils when I think of the utter disregard the dems and reps seem to have for the people as opposed to their power wielding. Go DeMint!

…in an otherwise bleak Christmas season this year.

Too bad the GOP “leadership,” and I use that term very loosely, is what it is. I certainly hope that all of this last-minute “incivility” by DeMint doesn’t cause the MSM to think less of Republicans.

And above all, I certainly hope that it doesn’t prolong things enough that it gets Senator McConnell caught in a snowstorm and traps him in DeeCee for the Christmas holiday. We have to have our priorities straight, after all.

Sheesh! Go Senator DeMint!

Demint is my hero and I hope he will eventually be the MAJORITY leader after next year’s elections. That being said, I’m glad that McConnell seems to be leaning toward denying conferees. Hope he will follow through on this.

Why Republicans fight lying down.

I nominate Sen. DeMint for the next Leader of the Senate Republicans.

These should have come some time back.
This last minute ” We have just begun to fight ”
Is very disappointing.
Mark

It is truly a shame that more of our Republican Senators are not more like Sen. DeMint. Had they all fought like this from the beginning, this may have had a different outcome. It may have had the same outcome, but at least we would know that they had fought for us. Hopefully we can attract more candidates like Sen. DeMint in the future.

Does it seem as if he’s out front all alone? Hello GOP are you there??? Back this guy up, get in the fight. Obstruct, delay, in general throw everything you can in the lefty’s way to stop their socialist agenda. The way I see it DeMint is one of the few standing Republican senators who are going to be re-elected. Yes, it is that viral! You other Repub senators and house members better take notice we are watching you and seeing what you do (or don’t do) and we will remember. Just because you are an incumbent and just because you have an R after your name doesn’t guarantee that you will be re-elected. Stop acting like some Dem poor relation and start manning up, you have been warned. As to Dem senators coming up for re-election it’s a foregone conclusion, you’re on your way out. You hitched your wagon to what you thought was a rising star instead it’s a meteorite and it’s burning up in the atmosphere and taking you with it. 2010 and 2012 will be our revenge, it’s coming and this time there won’t be these RINO’s in the GOP, they’re going to be true conservatives and we are going to repeal everything they are doing. Get out the popcorn!

Hey McConnell – watch and learn!

The only problem I have with DeMint on this is that he waited too long for leadership to do it themselves. He should have assumed early on that McConnell would cower back to Kentucky with hardly a whimper of protest.

I know he’s relatively new to the Senate, but any man who’s willing to step over leadership when they’re acting like sheep is a man I’ll support in cutting in line for Majority Leader.

Sad to see he seems alone in doing so.

*If* he derails this naked power grab and destruction of the Nation he will be a hero*. The rest of the R leadership – well not so much.

*I almost wrote “who will be re-elected forever” etc but then realized that a large part of the mess we are in is because that is the sort of thing that controls the career politician class – self over all instead of selfless service.

How could anyone in his/her right mind disagree with this attempt to curb corruption?

Brave and smart.
True conservatives usually are both.

This just highlights how expansive the problems are in the Republican party and they go right to the top. I wish Charlie Crist was all I had to worry about in Florida. I remember very well how all too eager McConnell was to go along with GW Bush and amnesty and this is just the latest example of how he’s not only capable of spurning conservatives but he’s also quite impotent from a leadership standpoint. Mitch is more concerned about Senate tradition than he is about defending my freedom. McConnell either does not know how to fight or simply does not care enought to fight. Time to catch the plane to Kentucky and congratulate your Dem counterparts on driving a hard bargain, eh Mitch?! Be sure to wish your “good friend from Nevada” a Merry Christmas.

I am disgusted with people like McConnell and I thank God for people like Senator Jim Demint from the Palmetto State. Jim Demint exemplifies what commitment and leadership are all about.

Obama is planning on rolling up the Constitution and lighting it on fire on Christmas Eve in lieu of a Yule log–The Constityule Log – where America’s chestnuts get roasted on the open fire of outright tyranny.

www.jeannie-ology.com

At least DeMint is using the tools at his disposal. The Left would do this and more if they were in the minority and trying to stop something that they disagreed with.

In this case, DeMint is standing not just for those who support The Constitution (the same Constitution that ALL Senators are sworn to Protect and Defend) in every state in addition to his own; DeMint is also standing for those Founding Fathers, those who drafted this very same Constitution, who would stand up if they were here and proclaim the truth of this attempt at imposition of tyranny under the deceitful smokescreen of Constitutional Propriety.

“That amendment passed the Senate 98 to 0, but was then stripped out in closed-door negotiations before S.1 was passed by the Congress.”

Does that make anyone else angry? The thing gets approved 98-0 on the floor, on recrod, for all to see, and then they pull it unanimously behind closed doors.

Remind me, who controlled the Senate in 2007? Most ethical congress ever right?

I applaud Senator DeMint’s tactics and I would like to see the Republican party challenge the Democrat’s more forcefully. Playing nice isn’t working and the media won’t give Republicans a fair chance regardless. America is in need of a conservative leader right now.

motion claiming bill violates budget rules. Next up, Hutchison motion that bill violates 10th amendment.

Vote on final bill moved to 7AM tomorrow.

Cornyn’s motion killed- 57 to 42.

Hutchison speaking now.

Dems. don’t think the bill violates the 10th Amendment.

At least on the Cornyn motion, 2 Dems. agreed that the bill violates the budget.

DeMint up now – 3:39 EST.

Dems. don’t think the bill violates the 10th Amendment.

At least on the Cornyn motion, 2 Dems. agreed that the bill violates the budget.

DeMint up now – 3:39 EST.

I’d like to see him offer an amendment that says, “No legislation shall carry the name of any former or currently serving publicly elected local, state or federal official, nor shall any publicly-owned property carry the name, or be named for, any former or currently serving publicly elected local, state or federal official until 25 years has passed after leaving office. Furthermore, any legislation may be named for a member of the Armed Forces, and any publicly owned-property may carry the name of, or be named for, any member of the Armed Forces, living or dead, without restriction of time.”

It just irks the heck out of me that there is a federal building in Suitland Maryland named for Steny Hoyer.
I know DCA would lose Reagan’s name but it’s a small price to pay to keep the names of the jerks in congress off of our buildings.

the time for this urgency that we are now seeing isn’t now…it was when Bennett announced he had been bought…or when Lieberman announced his purchase…or Mary Landrieu pimped herself…and the rest of us to the highest bidder!

I pray for a Majority Leader DeMint…but why is he only now showing his independence and making his voice heard so loudly?

I might add…I’m reading this after Fox News has announced they moved the HCR vote up to 700am so the good Senators can have an extra hour to pack in the morning!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson