Jim DeMint
Posted at 10:37am on Jun. 17, 2008 RedState Radio: Senator Jim DeMint and the Senate Conservatives Fund
By Erick
This week I turned over the RedState podcast microphone to my good friend Andy Roth at the Club for Growth.
Andy interviewed Senator Jim DeMint about the Senator's new Senate Conservatives Fund. The SCF if dedicated to electing real conservatives to the United States Senate.
Both Andy and Senator DeMint are good friends of RedState and Senator DeMint has waged a good, hard fight for conservatives in the United States Senate. We should all support this effort.
Senator DeMint tells Andy what it's all about in the podcast.
or listen here:
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Posted at 1:46pm on May 27, 2008 DeMint-headedness: putting Conservative principles over policies
By E Pluribus Unum
CART BEFORE HORSE AIN'T WORKING: SO JUST FOR KICKS, LET'S TRY IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND, SHALL WE?
File under : Republicans | try political courage, you might like it | DeMint | Conservative principles win
For anybody not aware of who Senator Jim Demint is, let me first bop you upside the head for being an ignorant cretin and a sorry excuse for a Republican. Second, let me give a brief introduction: DeMint is a champion of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, and has more than once stuck his neck out in politically risky moves that show his conservative bark ain't NOTHING compared to his conservative bite. He is a :
-- noted FisCon : slowed down the bipartisan Katrina pork-fest, and CFG loves him;
-- noted SoCon : family man and Christian, noted abortion opponent;
-- noted Milcon : has actively said that cut-n-run talk from Congressional Dems has caused troop deaths, and co-introduced the Semper Fi Act of 2008, which would shut down all federal funds going to Berkeley, CA after the fiasco about the Marine Recruitment Center.
This dude is the real deal, on all three legs of the conservative stool. Now you have no excuse : you know who he is, and by all means study him - the more you see, the more conservative he looks. So let's give a listen, shall we?
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Posted at 4:37pm on Feb. 28, 2008 McCain Backs Amendment to Halt Congressional Earmarks
GOP Frontrunner Endorses DeMint’s One-Year Moratorium
By Bluey
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) picked up the support of the GOP's presidential nominee-in-waiting today to institute a one-year moratorium on earmarks. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he favors DeMint’s amendment, and he promised to lobby his fellow Senate Republicans to get behind the effort.
“I absolutely would support such an amendment -- and abolish [earmarks] altogether,” McCain told conservative bloggers on a conference call this afternoon. “As I’ve said, I will veto any earmark project that comes across my desk.”
DeMint will offer the one-year earmark moratorium as an amendment to the Democrats’ budget proposal in two weeks when the Senate takes up debate on the floor. His schedule permitting, McCain said he would make the trip to Washington to vote for the measure.
“I really can’t tell you, traveling and campaigning now for many months, how dispirited the Bridge to Nowhere or earmark and pork-barrel spending was to our Republican base,” he said. “We lost in 2006 not because of Iraq but because spending got out of control.”
Last year Democrats passed nearly 12,000 earmarks costing more than $17 billion -- figures that far surpassed totals from a year earlier. The Democrats’ broken promises to clean up the earmarking process prompted House Republicans to endorse a one-year moratorium. While Senate GOP leaders haven’t gone as far as their House counterparts, DeMint said the only way to fix the system is to quit cold turkey. In order to do so, he needs all Republicans on board.
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Posted at 4:15pm on Feb. 6, 2008 Semper Fi THIS... Berkeley Freaks
By haystack
So sayeth John Cornyn, and Jim DeMint, and quite a few others in Congress ...well, they didn't say THAT exactly, but there's a little bit of THIS being said:
DeMint-
"Berkeley needs to learn that their actions have consequences," DeMint said in the release. "Patriotic American taxpayers won't sit quietly while Berkeley insults our brave Marines and tries to run them out of town."
Cornyn-
"The Berkeley City Council insulted our troops and offended people across the country. If the U.S. Marines are not good enough for Berkeley, neither are taxpayer dollars Congress would have sent there this year. That city closed its doors on the same individuals taking bullets on the front lines while fighting for the safety and freedom of families in Berkeley and throughout America," Sen. Cornyn said.
"The Semper Fi Act sends a strong message of disapproval—backed by tangible consequences—to the Berkeley City Council. It also shows support for the Marines whose selfless sacrifice is worthy of our admiration. I encourage all my Senate colleagues to support this legislation.”"
Amen boys...and good call.
Posted at 12:00am on Jan. 17, 2008 Senator DeMint's response to the Coburn endorsement
By AcademicElephant
From the diaries, by Erick.
Staunch Romney supporter Jim DeMint sent out the following email today:
Today, Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) issued the following statement upon learning the news that Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) endorsed John McCain for President in Greenville, South Carolina this morning. Senator DeMint has endorsed Governor Mitt Romney for President.
"Illegal immigration and tax relief may not be big issues in Oklahoma, but they are here. Thankfully the people of South Carolina will decide for themselves who will stop illegal immigration and rebuild our economy."
This is getting to be something of a game of inside-the-senate baseball, but the Coburn-DeMint split is a pretty strong indicator to me that we're still far from a "consensus" candidate.
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