Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina)
announced that he will leave the Senate at the beginning of January to become
the next president of The Heritage Foundation, the largest and most respected
conservative think tank in America.
"It's been an honor to serve the people of South Carolina in United States Senate for the past eight years, but now it's time for me to pass the torch to someone else and take on a new role in the fight for America's future.
"I'm leaving the Senate now, but I'm not leaving the fight. I've decided to join The Heritage Foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas. No organization is better equipped to lead this fight and I believe my experience in public office as well as in the private sector as a business owner will help Heritage become even more effective in the years to come.
“I’m humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom.
"My constituents know that being a Senator was never going to be my career. I came to Congress as a citizen legislator and I've always been determined to leave it as citizen legislator. South Carolina has a deep bench of conservative leaders and I know Governor Haley will select a great replacement.
"One of the most rewarding things I've done in the Senate is work with the grassroots to help elect a new generation of leaders who have the courage to fight for the principles of freedom that make this country so great. I'm confident these senators will continue the legacy of conservative leaders before them."
Jim DeMint was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998 after owning a successful advertising and market research company for twenty years. DeMint left the House after limiting himself to three terms and then was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and re-elected in 2010.
During his time in office, DeMint has been tireless advocate for Americans taxpayers. His goal has been to support and defend the Constitution, which was written to preserve liberty by restraining the federal government. Toward that end, he authored legislation to balance the budget, ban earmarks, replace the tax code, and reform our entitlement programs. He also led the fight against unconstitutional power grabs like the Wall Street bailout and ObamaCare.
"It's been an honor to serve the people of South Carolina in United States Senate for the past eight years, but now it's time for me to pass the torch to someone else and take on a new role in the fight for America's future.
"I'm leaving the Senate now, but I'm not leaving the fight. I've decided to join The Heritage Foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas. No organization is better equipped to lead this fight and I believe my experience in public office as well as in the private sector as a business owner will help Heritage become even more effective in the years to come.
“I’m humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom.
"My constituents know that being a Senator was never going to be my career. I came to Congress as a citizen legislator and I've always been determined to leave it as citizen legislator. South Carolina has a deep bench of conservative leaders and I know Governor Haley will select a great replacement.
"One of the most rewarding things I've done in the Senate is work with the grassroots to help elect a new generation of leaders who have the courage to fight for the principles of freedom that make this country so great. I'm confident these senators will continue the legacy of conservative leaders before them."
Jim DeMint was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998 after owning a successful advertising and market research company for twenty years. DeMint left the House after limiting himself to three terms and then was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and re-elected in 2010.
During his time in office, DeMint has been tireless advocate for Americans taxpayers. His goal has been to support and defend the Constitution, which was written to preserve liberty by restraining the federal government. Toward that end, he authored legislation to balance the budget, ban earmarks, replace the tax code, and reform our entitlement programs. He also led the fight against unconstitutional power grabs like the Wall Street bailout and ObamaCare.
5 comments:
I don't know what to think.
Best case scenario... this is a well thought out opening move... the opening gambit in an attempt by DeMint and his friends, associates, colleagues, and followers to directly take on the RINOs across the national stage.
In other words... best case scenario... DeMint and those in power who share his... share my... principles... he and they are finally prepared to follow my advice and go against the RINOs directly.
My question: Why couldn't DeMint do this from the inside?
My hope? DeMint and his advisers and his fellow Senate "Tea Partiers" have come to the conclusion that as a matter of not just stategy - but of tactics - DeMint is needed "outside" the official Republican elected power structure in order to better SUPPORT "his" followers who retain office.
I just spoke to a staffer at DeMint's Washington office who told me that DeMint will be on Rush Limbaugh's show today.
I'll be listening.
More later!
BILL
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/07/jim-demint-gains-more-power-over-gop-in-move-from-senate-to-heritage-foundation.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet
* FROM A DEMOCRAT PERSPECTIVE...
[O]n Thursday, when Tea Party firebrand Jim DeMint announced, “I’m leaving the Senate. But I am not leaving the fight,” he pulled off a move many lawmakers would have considered laughable: leaving elected office — for a think tank no less — because... the gig isn’t powerful enough.
But conversations with several Senate staffers and Capitol Hill insiders say the shock is unmerited.
Free of the rigors of actually making laws, and without the strictures of the Senate — as much as he bucked them — DeMint will be free to try and remake the Senate and the world into the more conservative place he thinks they should be.
“DeMint is where the party is going,” said one GOP operative. “Heritage gets as their president the guy who is the intellectual heart of the party.”
http://times247.com/articles/departing-demint-i-m-not-with-boehner
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who shocked Washington on Thursday with the announcement that he would resign his Senate seat in January to become president of the Heritage Foundation, sent a parting shot at Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) over the “fiscal cliff” negotiations.
“I’m not with Boehner,” DeMint said on CNN’s "The Situation Room."
“This government doesn’t need any more money, this country needs less government.”
* FOLKS... ALL I CAN DO IS TRY AND KEEP THE FAITH... KEEP THE FAITH THAT FINALLY THE "DEMINT REPUBLICANS" ARE READY TO CROSS THE LINE AND GO AFTER BOEHNER AND THE RINOs DIRECTLY... AS INDIVIDUALS... PUBLICLY...
http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/06/will-jim-demint-bring-a-libertarian-flav
* JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE, MY FRIENDS...
http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-jim-demint-was-the-libertarian-hero-of-the-senate/article/2515445?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2012/10/2012&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest#.
* AGAIN... JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE!
(*WINK*)
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