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Reminds me of the knight that lost his arms and legs in a fight in Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail, and was still challenging the other knight to a fight. The only difference is that they can shutdown the government again but it wouldn't be too wise, Orrin Hatch offered some harsh criticism for Jim DeMint.
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Now that the government shutdown has ended and the president has preserved ObamaCare for the time being, it's worth explaining why my organization, the Heritage Foundation, and
other conservatives chose this moment to fight—and why we will continue to
fight. The reason is simple: to protect the American people from the harmful
effects of this law.
I spent a good part of my summer traveling around the country with the
Heritage Foundation's sister organization, Heritage Action, and I heard
firsthand from many Americans being harmed by ObamaCare. More and
more people have had their work hours cut, their jobs eliminated and their
coverage taken away as a result of this new law.
Yes, the same Jim DeMint said about his decision to endorse Mitt Romney in 2007:
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DeMint, who spent most of his life in private business, admires Romney’s business background and believes Romney has shown the talent to apply that experience to government. “He has demonstrated, when he stepped into government in a very difficult state, that he could work in a difficult partisan environment, take some good conservative ideas, like private health insurance, and apply them to the need to have everyone insured,”
Then in February of that year DeMint explained on Fox News that Romney should do for America what he had done for Massachusetts with health care: "Well, that's something that I think we should do for the whole country."
Shorter DeMint, then:
"Health insurance mandates are a great conservative idea!"
Shorter DeMint, now:
"Health insurance mandates are the tyrannical essence of Marxism!"
Yes the same Jim DeMint that bailed his senate seat mid term for a $1M salary at Heritage
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Hatch’s willingness to so publicly bash Heritage — an organization now headed by
his one-time colleague Jim DeMint — is evidence of the growing frustrations
within the party about the clout that organizations such as Heritage Action, the
political arm of the think tank, as well as the Senate Conservatives Fund and
the Club for Growth, now wield over Republican members of Congress. (Hatch has
some personal experience with those groups, as he was painted by some of them as
insufficiently conservative in his 2012 reelection race.) That fight will
continue to play itself out in 2014 as the Club and SCF both endorsed a primary
challenger to Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) on Wednesday, and many of the most
influential conservative outside groups have also been publicly critical of
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who faces a primary challenge
next year.
How can Demint spout that and ignore Medicare and to a lesser extent Medicaid? Seniors take over 650 billion dollars out of these two programs and yet he is concerned with one that is projected at one sixth the cost. Those forums that were held around the country were populated by people who hate Obama and are on other government plans. That's the Republican base.
Oh I hope the Republicans continue to remind everyone about their own failures all the way to the next elections so that they can lose more seats. ghere are over a dozen seats at risk right now in the House, as well as a few governor seats.
Jim De Mint who left the senate to work for the Heritage Foundation and in doing so increased his annual comp by 500%?
Jim De Mint, the current President of The Heritage Foundation ( who wrote most of the ACA Law) bank rolled the Koch Bros and Rupert Murdoch empires?
Jim De Mint, who was in the Senate one year prior to the roll out of Republican sponsored Medicare part D- a swell benefit that was not funded by Payroll Taxes or a cut in government spending- just 100% deficit spending?
Jim De Mint, who could have introduced a bill to allow Medicare to negotiate the price of prescription medications as is done everywhere else in the world and thereby reduce deficit spending by $ half trillion over ten years, but did not?
Tell me again, how he's all about smaller government and spending cuts.
How can Demint spout that and ignore Medicare and to a lesser extent Medicaid? Seniors take over 650 billion dollars out of these two programs and yet he is concerned with one that is projected at one sixth the cost. Those forums that were held around the country were populated by people who hate Obama and are on other government plans. That's the Republican base.
He should have been at the forefront of reforming Medicare & Medicaid but he wasn't, no credibility.
I understand that the threat to any republican house member was a primary challenge by the Tea Party next term if they didn't go a along with the program. Does anyone know if Grover Norquist is in the witness protection program, he seems to have disappeared.
But next time, how about not throwing a million people into job limbo and threatening to wreak the full faith and credit of the USA?
How about trying it the boring, old-fashioned way... oh, I don't know - maybe actually winning elections and earning the political strength to amend or repeal the thing?
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Jim DeMint: We Won't Back Down on ObamaCare
